We provide the public and all criminal justice system professionals with a singular place to locate important work on intimate partner violence and policing matters that have been produced by the Canadian Centre for Policing Intimate Partner Violence (CCPIPV) membership directly, while also drawing attention to external work of significance by other academics, organizations and policing professionals.
Apinall, M., Gill, C., Dawson, M. and M. Cousineau (2024). "Coercive control and risk in intimate partner violence: are Canadian police prepared to assess?", Policing and Society.
Gill, C., Campbell. M.A. and Ballucci, D., (2021). “Police officers’ definitions and understandings of intimate partner violence in New Brunswick, Canada”, The Police Journal: Theory, Practice and Principles.
Campbell, M. A., Gill, C. and Ballucci, D. (2018). “Informing police response to intimate partner violence: predictors of perceived usefulness of risk assessment screening”, Journal of Police and Criminal Psychology: The Official Journal of the Society for Police and Criminal Psychology, 33 (2), 175–187.
Ballucci, D., Gill, C. and M.A. Campbell. (2017). “The power of attitude: The Role of Police Culture and Receptivity of Risk Assessment Tools in IPV Calls”, Policing: A Journal of Policy and Practice. Vol. 11, no 3, 242-257.
Gill, C. and L. Fitch, (2016) “Developing and delivering a National Framework for Collaborative Police Action to Intimate Partner Violence in Canada”. Journal of Community Safety and Wellbeing. 1 (3):51 – 55.
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, pp. 83-101.
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 and 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. and J. Ursel. (2006). “Canadian observatory on the justice system’s response to intimate partner violence”. A Women’s Studies Journal. Vol. 30, no 3.
Saxton, M., Jaffe, P., Dawson, M., Straatman, A., & Olszowy, L. (2022). Complexities of the police response to intimate partner violence: Police officers’ perspectives on the challenges of keeping families safe. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 37 (5-6), 2557-2580.
Dawson, M. and Piscitelli, A. (2021). Risk factors in domestic homicides: Identifying common clusters in the Canadian context. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 36 (1-2), 781-792.
Whitehead, J., Dawson, M. and Hotton, T. (2021). Same-sex intimate partner violence in Canada: Prevalence, characteristics and types of incidents reported to police services. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 36 (23-24), 10959-10988.
Youngson, N., Saxton, M., Jaffe, P., Chiodo, D. and Dawson, M. (2021). Challenges in risk assessment with rural domestic violence victims: Implications for practice. Journal of Family Violence, 36 (5), 537-550.
Saxton, M., Jaffe, P., Dawson, M., Olszowy, L. and Straatman, A. (2020). Barriers to police addressing risk to children exposed to domestic violence. Child Abuse and Neglect, 106, 104554.
Stark, E. and Hester, M. (2019) Coercive control: Update and review. Violence Against Women, Vol. 25 (1), 81-104.
Grant, I. (2015). Intimate Partner Criminal Harassment Through a Lens of Responsibilization. Osgoode Hall Law Journal, 52.2, 552-600.
Stark, E. (2012). Re-presenting Battered Women: Coercive Control and the Defence of Liberty. Prepared for Violence Against Women: Complex Realities and New Issues in a Changing World, Les Presses de l’Université du Québec.
Aspinall, M. and Gill, C. (2023). Submission to Justice Canada on the Creation of a Potential Coercive Control Offence in the Context of Intimate Relationships. University of New Brunswick.
Gill, C., Aspinall, M., Cousineau, M.M., Dawson, M. (2023). Coercive Control, Risk Assessment and Evidence of Intimate Partner Violence (IPV): Police Response. University of New Brunswick. (In collaboration with Chief Francis Lanouette, Deputy Chief Harj Sidhu, and Co-chairs of the CACP Crime Prevention, Community Safety and Well-being Committee).
Gill, C., Aspinall, M., Cousineau, M.M., and Dawson, M. (2023). Are Non-physical Tactics of IPV Dangerous? Canadian Police Chief Magazine. 6-9. (In collaboration with Chief Francis Lanouette and Deputy Chief Harj Sidhu, Co-chairs of the CACP Crime Prevention, Community Safety and Well-being Committee).
Gill, C. and Aspinall, M. (2022). Understanding violence in relationships. Expert report prepared for the Joint Federal and Provincial Commission into the April 2020 Nova Scotia mass casualty.
Gill, C. and Aspinall, M. (n.d.). Research Brief: Why is it important to better understand and address coercive control within law enforcement in Canada?
Gill, C., Gates, V., Lanouette, F. and Greenwood, K. (2021). What we know is not enough. Finding better interventions to intimate partner violence. Canadian Police Chief Magazine, 6-9.
Gill, C. and Aspinall, M. (2021). Domestic Homicide in New Brunswick: When the inconceivable happens! Submitted to Jérôme Ouellette, Chief Coroner New Brunswick.
Gill, C. and Aspinall, M. (2021). Submission to the House of Commons Standing Committee on justice and human rights: Study on bill C-247 An act to amend the Criminal Code (controlling or coercive conduct).
Gill, C. and Aspinall, M. (2020). Understanding coercive control in the context of intimate partner violence in Canada: How to address the issue through the criminal justice system? Office of the Federal Ombudsman for Victims of Crime Department of Justice Canada.
Gill, C. & L. Fitch, (2016) Developing and delivering a National Framework for Collaborative Police Action to Intimate Partner Violence in Canada. Journal of Community Safety and Wellbeing. 1 (3):51 – 55.
Gill, C., Fitch, L. and K. Greenwood. (2016). National Framework on Collaborative Police Action on Intimate Partner Violence (IPV). Sociology, UNB.
Canadian Centre for Justice and Community Safety statistics, statistics Canada. (2022). Brief: Statistical profile of intimate partner violence in Canada. Submitted to the House of Commons Standing Committee on the status of women - FEWO.
Illingworth, Heidi. (2021). Submission to the House of Commons Standing Committee on justice and human rights. The study of controlling or coercive conduct within intimate relationships. Office of the Federal Ombudsman for victims of crime.
Dawson, M., Sutton, D., Zecha, A., Boyd, C., Johnson, A. and Mitchell, A. (2020). #CallItFemicide: Understanding sex, gender-related killings of women and girls in Canada, 2020. The Canadian Femicide Observatory for Justice and Accountability.
International Association of Chiefs of Police. (2018) Intimate Partner Violence Response Policy and Training Content Guidelines.
Ashe, C. (2023). Parental Alienation: Intimate Partner Violence by Proxy. University of New Brunswick.
Jones, M. (2023). "It was everywhere all at once": Exploring Digital Coercive Control in the Context of Intimate Partner Violence Through Mix-method Research. University of New Brunswick.
Fullerton, J. (2022). "I don't feel like it's well understood": Perceptions and experiences of intimate partner violence among students at an Eastern Canadian univeristy. University of New Brunswick.
Coercive Control, Risk Assessment and Evidence of Intimate Partner Violence (IPV): Police Response - Risk Factors and Training. (2023). Infographic. University of New Brunswick.
Coercive Control, Risk Assessment and Evidence of Intimate Partner Violence (IPV): Police Response - Response. (2023). Infographic. University of New Brunswick.
Coercive Control, Risk Assessment and Evidence of Intimate Partner Violence (IPV): Police Response - Demographics. (2023). Infographic. University of New Brunswick.
What is coercive control in intimate partner violence? (n.d.). Infographic. University of New Brunswick.
Coercive Control, Risk Assessment and Evidence of Intimate Partner Violence (IPV): Police Response - Project Overview. (n.d.). Infographic. University of New Brunswick.
Feb. 15, 2024. Meeting No. 95 JUST - Standing committee on justice and human rights.
July 20, 2022. IPV, GBV and family violence: Police and institutional understanding and responses to intimate partner violence and family violence. Roundtable discussion during proceedings of the joint Federal and Provincial Commission into the April 2020 Nova Scotia Mass Casualty.
July 18, 2022. Mass casualties, IPV, GBV and family violence: Exploring the connections.
Roundtable discussion during the proceedings of the joint Federal and Provincial Commissions into the April 2020 Nova Scotia mass casualty.
Feb. 4, 2021. Meeting No. 18 JUST (43-2). Standing committee on justice and human rights: Controlling or coercive conduct within intimate relationships.
June 21, 2022. Unravelling the complexities of domestic violence and criminalization in black women’s lives. Centre for Research and Education on Violence Against Women and Children.
March 13, 2022. How to spot the warning signs of coercive control in a relationship.The Globe and Mail.
Sept. 15, 2021. Recognizing and responding to economic abuse. Canadian Center for Women’s Empowerment.
May 5, 2021. Tracking domestic violence perpetrators. Blue Line: Canada’s Law Enforcement Magazine.
March 23, 2021. The misuse of alienation in domestic violence cases in family court: Helping court-related professional to sort through conflicting allegations. Centre for Research and Education on violence against women and children.
July 17, 2019. Coercive control, invisible victims? Queensland Centre for Domestic and Family Violence Research (QCDFVR).
June 14, 2017. Human trafficking and domestic violence: A legal perspective. The Villanova Law Institute to address commercial sexual exploitation.
The Canadian Observatory on the Justice Systems Response to Intimate Partner Violence. University of New Brunswick.
Canadian Femicide Observatory for Justice and Accountability. University of Guelph
The Centre for the Study of Social and Legal Responses to Violence. University of Guelph
Centre for Research & Education on Violence Against Women & Children Western University
