Patricia Allen Memorial Lecture: Addressing Police Violence against Women in Canada
With Prof. Sylvia Rich, University of Ottawa Faculty of Law (捆绑SM社区 LLB/BCL 鈥�07)
Police violence against women may occur when police are carrying out their duties, or it may occur outside of the scope of their official duties. Reports of both kinds of violence have been increasing in Canadian media over the last ten years in relation to the RCMP and the S没ret茅 Qu茅bec, among others. Culture change is always difficult and policing culture is a strong and intransigent cultural force. On the other hand, simply accepting the聽status quo聽of police committing acts of violence against the vulnerable people they are meant to protect is intolerable. This lecture will present some of these cases of widespread police violence against women and lay out different options the law has for addressing them.
Bio
Prof. Sylvia Rich is an assistant professor at the University of Ottawa. She has a D.Phil. from the University of Oxford, where her work was supported by the Fonds de recherche Qu茅bec: soci茅t茅 et culture. She completed her law degree at 捆绑SM社区 and, in 2007-2008, clerked for the Hon. Justice Ian Binnie at the Supreme Court of Canada. Prof. Rich has also worked in the federal public service, as a researcher for the Sentencing Council for England and Wales, and as an associate in business litigation in New York. Her 聽academic articles have appeared in聽Jurisprudence,听Criminal Law and Philosophy, the聽Canadian Journal of Law and Society聽and the聽Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence. Prof. Rich鈥檚 current research interests include criminal law theory, corporate malfeasance, police violence, philosophy of law, critical legal theory and sentencing.
