Sociology and Criminology

Sociology and Criminology

Dr. Diane Crocker
(Associate Professor Full-Time Faculty) Graduate Coordinator 2009-2012

Personal Profile

Ph.D. (Sociology) York University, 2002
M.A (Sociology) York University, 1997
Honours Equivalency (Sociology) Dalhousie University, 1995
B.A. (Anthropology) Memorial University, 1992

Diane Crocker holds a Ph.D. in Sociology from York University.  She is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and Criminology at Saint Mary's University in Halifax, Nova Scotia.  Her research areas include violence against women, criminal harassment and the use of law to address social problems, particularly those that disproportionately affect women.  Recently she completed a project on the effects of the Anti-Terrorism Act and the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act on immigrants and minority groups in Atlantic Canada.  She has also been working on a collection of edited papers on the criminalization of poverty (to be published in Spring 2010) and has produced a report for the Department of Justice Canada on the effects of the criminal harassment law on victims of stalking.  Over the past few years, Dr. Crocker has been focusing on the Nova Scotia Restorative Justice Program as part of large collaborative project with academics and community researchers.

Current Projects

Nova Scotia Restorative Justice-Community University Research Alliance

Projects under this grant include:

  • Measuring Success  
  • Understanding Access to and Outcomes of Restorative Justice
  • Public Opinion and Restorative Justice

For more information see www.nsrj-cura.ca

Selected Publications

Byers, Michele and Diane Crocker (in press) "Feminist Cohorts and Waves: Attitudes of junior female academics" , Women's Studies International Forum.

Crocker, Diane (2012) Crime In Canada , Toronto: Oxford University Press. http://www.oupcanada.com/catalog/9780195432473.html

Crocker, Diane and Johnson, Val Marie (2010) Poverty, Regulation and Social Justice: Readings on the Criminalization of Poverty . Halifax: Fernwood.

Crocker Diane (2010) Counting Woman Abuse: A Cautionary Tale of Two Surveys. International Journal of Social Research Methodology. 13(3): 265-275 .

Crocker, Diane and Byers, Michele (2009) A Place at the Table and A Voice in the Hall: "Third Wave" Feminists in the Canadian Academy. Atlantis. 33(2):19-31.

Crocker, Diane (2008) Criminalizing Harassment and the Transformative Potential of Law. Canadian Journal of Women and the Law . 20(1): 87-100.

Crocker, Diane, Alexandra Dobrowolsky, Edna Keeble,  Carmen Celina Moncayo and Evie Tastsoglou (2007) Security and Immigration, Changes and Challenges: Immigrant and Ethnic Communities in Atlantic Canada, Presumed Guilty? (Ottawa: Status of Women Canada) 139 pp.

Crocker, Diane (2005) Regulating Intimacy: Judicial Discourse in Cases of Wife Assault (1970-2000).  Violence Against Women : An International and Interdisciplinary Journal. 11(2): 197-226.

Crocker, Diane (2004) Criminal Harassment: Understanding Criminal Justice Outcomes for Victims, Department of Justice Canada, 61 pp.

Crocker, Diane (2003) The Accidental Sociologist: Fragmented Identities in the 21st Century. Sociology On-Line, July-August. 

Crocker, Diane (2001) Researching Nineteenth Century Domestic Violence: Two Case Studies. Feminism(s) on the Edge of the Millennium: Rethinking Foundations and Future Debates . Krista Hunt and Christine Saulnier (eds.) Toronto: Inana Publications.

Crocker, Diane and Valéry Kalemba (1999) The Incidence and Impact of Women's Experience of Sexual Harassment.
Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology 36(4):541-559.

Crocker, Diane (1996) Innovative Models for Rural Child Protection Teams. The International Journal of Child Abuse and Neglect 20(3):205-211.

Research Grants / Contracts

Evaluation of the Restorative Option for Youth in Core Pilot Project, (2010) Community Justice Society, Halifax.

Beyond Theory: Restorative Justice in Practice (2005-2010) SSHRC - Community University Research Alliance, $1,000,000 Principal Investigator: J. Llewellyn, Co-investigator with B. Archibald, D. Clairmont. See www.nsrj-cura.ca

Criminalizing Poverty: Is Being Poor a Crime?  A Public Colloquium. (2004) Law Commission of Canada, $2,000, Saint Mary's University, $3,000, Student Employment Experience Program $2,490.  Co-organizer with V. Johnson and The Community Action on Homelessness.

Criminal Harassment: Understanding Outcomes (2004) Department of Justice Canada, $26,000 research contract Principal Investigator/Research Consultant.

Human Security, Immigration, Citizenship and the Profile of Terror: Immigrant and Ethnic Minorities Presumed Guilty?  (2003-2005) Status of Women Canada, Policy Research Fund, $85,000. Co-investigator with A. Dobrowolsky, E. Keeble and E. Tastsoglou with the Metropolitan Immigrant Settlement Association.

Course Listing

  • Sociology/Criminology 3102 - Quantitative Research Methods
  • Sociology/Criminology 4450 - Practicum in Community Development

 


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