Presentations

Invited Speaker/Participant:

Invited Speaker, Presidential Panel on Feminist Perspectives of Restorative Justice. American Society of Criminology Conference, Chicago, November 2002.

Guest Panelist, “Human Rights: Abroad and at Home”, F.S.U. Center for Advancement of Human Rights, March 2001.

Invited Speaker, 10th United Nations Congress on the Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of Offenders. “Women in the Criminal Justice System”, Vienna, April 2000.

Invited Participant and Rapporteur, International Experts Meeting for the development of an International Criminal Justice Strategy to Eliminate Violence Against Women, 1998.
Organized by the International Centre for Criminal Law Reform and Criminal Justice Policy (ICCLR & CJP) in co-operation with the Centre for International Crime Prevention (CICP), European Institute for Crime Prevention and Control, United Nations (HEUNI), and United Nations Latin American Institute for Crime Prevention and the Treatment of Offenders (ILANUD).

Guest lecturer at the University of the West Indies, Trinidad. “Cross Cultural Research on Domestic Violence”, October 1998.

Guest Speaker. Association of Canadian Universities for Northern Studies. Vancouver, B.C. November 1997.

Invited Speaker. Northwestern Canadian Conference on Family Violence. Winnipeg, Manitoba. May 1996.

Invited Speaker. Spousal Assault Workshop at the Baffin Regional Women’s Conference, Iqaluit, N.W.T. February 1994.

Chair:

Chair and Organizer. Presidential Panel on “Gender, Juvenile Offenders, and Justice”, American Society of Criminology Conference, Chicago, November 2002.

Co-Chair and Organizer. International Conference on Women’s Rights and Violence Against Women. Almaty, Kazakhstan, May 2000.

Co-Chair and Organizer. Shelter and Crisis Center Workshop, Almaty, Kazakhstan, July 2000.

Chair. “International Research on Female Delinquency”, American Society of Criminology Conference, Toronto, November 1999.

Chair and Discussant. “Crime, Justice, and Public Policy: The Case of Delinquent Girls”, American Society of Criminology Conference, Washington, D.C. November 1998.

Chair. “Youth, Gender, Children and Crime”, International Conference on Criminology and Criminal Justice in the Caribbean. Barbados, October 1998.

Chair, Workshop “Dealing with Issues of Isolation”, Conference sponsored by the Manitoba Research Centre on Family Violence and Violence Against Women, Winnipeg, May 1996.

Presentations:

“Action Research: Police Training on Domestic Violence in Kazakhstan”. Presentation at the World Congress of Criminology, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, August 2003.

“Integrating Feminist and Restorative Visions of Justice”. Presentation at the World Congress of Criminology, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, August 2003.

“Ethical Alignments: Teaching Restorative Justice Using Problem-Based Learning”. Presentation at the International Conference on Restorative Justice, Vancouver, Canada, June 2003

“Restorative Community Justice: The Potential to Resolve Feminist Dilemmas and Advance Feminist Goals”. Presidential Panel Presentation at the American Society of Criminology Conference, Chicago, November 2002.

“Understanding the Etiology of Female Delinquency and Domestic Violence”. Presidential Panel Presentation with Kristin Winokur at the American Society of Criminology Conference, Chicago, November 2002.

“Action Research on Domestic Violence in Central Asia”. Presentation at the Western Society of Criminology, San Diego, February 2002

“Restorative Justice Through Community Sanctioning Panels”. Co-presented with Joanna Cannon at the American Society of Criminology Conference, Atlanta, November 2001.

“Applying Complex Pattern Analysis to Reduce Violence in the School Environment”. Co-authored with Lee Clark and Dale Nute for the International Conference on Violence in Schools and Public Policies, Paris, France, March 2001.

“Violence Against Women in the Caribbean”. Presentation at the International Conference on Crime and Criminal Justice in the Caribbean, Jamaica, February 2001.

“Restorative Justice, Indigenous Justice, and Human Rights”. Co-presented with Chris Cunneen, at the American Society of Criminology Conference, San Francisco, November 2000.

“Violence Against Women in the Former Soviet Union”. Presentation at the American Society of Criminology Conference, San Francisco, November 2000.

“Prior Record, Current Offence and Case Disposition for Juvenile Girls in Florida”. Co-presented with Kathy Padgett at the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, New Orleans, March 2000.

“Implementing a Restorative Justice Project: A Case Study in Tallahassee, Florida”. Co-presented with Joanna Cannon at the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, New Orleans, March 2000.

“The Victim-Offender Link for Girls in the Deep-end of the Juvenile Justice System”. Presentation at the American Society of Criminology Conference, Toronto, Canada. November 1999.

“Girls Committed to Florida’s Juvenile Justice System”. Co-presented with Kristin Winokur at the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, Orlando, Florida. March 1999.

“Female Juvenile Offenders: A Qualitative Study of Girls in the Florida Juvenile Justice System”. Presentation at the American Society of Criminology Conference, Washington, D.C. November 1998.

“Restorative Justice in Cross-Cultural Settings: Addressing the Victimization of Women and Children”. Presentation at the International Conference on Restorative Justice for Juveniles, Fort Lauderdale, Florida. November 1998.

“Conducting Cross-Cultural, Qualitative Research on Wife Abuse”. Presentation at the Qualitative Health Research Conference, Vancouver, B.C. February 1998.

“Criminal Justice and Community-Based Sanctions Against Wife Abuse in Remote, Indigenous Communities”. Presentation at the American Society of Criminology Conference, San Diego, California. November 1997.

"Police responses to wife abuse in remote communities: Lessons from the arctic". Presentation at the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, Las Vegas. March 1996.

"Breaking the Silence: Wife Abuse in Canada's Far North". Presentation at the American Society of Criminology Conference, Boston, Massachusetts. November 1995.

"Is there Justice? Wife Abuse in the Eastern Arctic". Presentation at the Western Society of Criminology Conference, San Diego, California. February 1995.

"Researching Violence Against Inuit Women". Presentation at the International Conference on Women in the Circumpolar North, University of Alaska, Fairbanks. June 1994.

"Traditional Approaches in the Treatment of Offenders". Presentation at the Canadian Anthropology Society Conference, Vancouver, B.C. May 1994.

"Reflections on Research: Violence Against Women in Inuit Communities on Baffin Island". Presentation at the Western Association of Sociology and Anthropology Conference, Vancouver, B.C. April 1993.