The article noted a committee with the Ottawa Police Service is set to finalize and release its definition of “femicide.”
Dawson said having a police service use the term could help elevate the visibility of the concept and legitimize it as worthy of attention.
A professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Dawson researches violence and society, violence against women and girls, homicide, violence prevention, public policy and criminal justice. Dawson is the director of the Centre for the Study of Social and Legal Responses to Violence and director of the CFOJA.