Dr Carmen Gill

Carmen GillProfessor/Director, Muriel McQueen Fergusson Centre for Family Violence Research
BA, MA, PhD (Université du Québec à Montréal)

Carmen Gill is the Director of the Muriel McQueen Fergusson Centre for Family Violence Research and is cross-appointed as Professor of Sociology. She has established the Canadian observatory on the justice system response to intimate partner violence in 2007 and has been involved in diverse research and educational projects related to justice interventions at the police, crown prosecutors and court levels. Dr. Gill is collecting information on domestic violence cases in courts, domestic violence homicide cases in New Brunswick and is involved in the domestic violence death review committee. Her areas of expertise are in the fields of family, social policy, justice responses, intimate partner violence and violence against women.

Selected Publications

  • Gill, C. 2013. "Le fémicide au Canada: Le cas du Nouveau-Brunswick". Nouvelles questions féministes. Vol. 32, no 1.
  • Gill, C. and L. Thériault. (2010). "Using conditional sentences in Domestic Violence Cases: A New Brunswick Exploration". Canadian Review of Social Policy. Fall 2009/Winter 2010, Number 63/64.
  • Thériault, L., McTiernan, H., and C. Gill. (2008). "Resources and Challenges of Charitable Human Service Organizations in New Brunswick," The Philanthropist, vol. 21, no. 3: 210-233.
  • Tutty, L. George, D. Nixon, K. and C. Gill. (2008). "Women’s Views of Programs to Assist them with the Justice System", In J. Ursel, L. Tutty & J. Lemaistre (Eds.). What's Law Got To do With it?: The Law, Specialized Courts and Domestic Violence in Canada, Toronto: Cormorant Press.
  • Gill, C. In collaboration with Berman, H., Jackson, M., Rondeau, G., Tutty, L. & J. Ursel.  (2006). "Canadian observatory on the justice system’s response to intimate partner violence". Atlantis. A Women’s Studies Journal. Vol. 30, no 3.
  • Gill, C. (2006). « Violence Between Intimate Partners: Understanding Theories and their Links to Intervention Strategies », in M.R. Hampton & N. Gerrard (Eds.). Intimate partner violence: reflections on experience, theory and policy. Toronto: Cormorant Books.

 

Contact Information:

Dr Carmen Gill

Associate Professor
Office: Muriel McQueen Fergusson Centre, Room 211
Phone: (506) 452-6367