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Spencer, Dale

Professor

• B.A., M.A. (Windsor), Ph.D. (�Ӱ�ԭ��), Banting Postdoctoral Fellow (Alberta)
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Areas of Interest

• Realism(s) and the social sciences
• Methods
• Conceptions of homelessness, domicile, and the law
• Criminal Justice responses to sexual violence
• Sex offenses and offenders
• Settler colonialism
• Critical approaches to children and youth
• Micro and macro approaches to violence

Recent Awards

Current Research Projects

1. Principal Investigator, “Digital Culture, Youth, and Policing: Risk-taking and police response in the information age”. Funding: Ontario Early Researcher Award, $150,000.
2. Co-investigator, “A genealogical study of Indigenous Adoption in Canada: A multi-faceted examination of events in the removal of Indigenous children with a concentration on child welfare policy shifts between 1950 and 1985”. Funding: SSHRC Insight Grant, $313,480; CIHR, $12000.
3. Principal Investigator, “Brazilian Jiu Jitsu as a Way of Life: Communities of practice, violence and injury”, SSHRC Explore CU Development Grant, $9,460.

Student Supervisions

Supervision of PhD Students (current):

• Supervisor: Taryn Hepburn (PhD – current), Law and Legal Studies, �Ӱ�ԭ�� University.
• Supervisor: Corrine Baray (PhD – current), Law and Legal Studies, �Ӱ�ԭ�� University.
• Supervisor: Bridgette Desjardins (PhD – current), Law and Legal Studies, �Ӱ�ԭ�� University.
• Supervisor: Daniella Bendo (PhD – current), Law and Legal Studies, �Ӱ�ԭ�� University
• Supervisor: Andrew Costa (PhD – current), Law and Legal Studies, �Ӱ�ԭ�� University
• Co-Supervisor: Marcus Sibley (PhD – current), Law and Legal Studies, �Ӱ�ԭ�� University

 Supervision of MA Students (since 2014):

• Supervisor – Gurdeep Jagpal – Thesis – Defense: January 11, 2019
  
  Thesis Title: Sikh Males In Ontario And Random Police Stops (Carding)
• Supervisor – Matthew Hopkins – Major Research Essay – Submission: August 28, 2018
  
  Essay Title: The Ontological Deep-Freeze Legal and Political Identity as the End of Becoming
• Supervisor – Maryan Hatam – Thesis – Defense:�� September 10, 2018
  
  Thesis Title: The Professionalization of Canadian Correctional Officers: 1920s-1960s
• Supervisor�� – Darby Babin – Thesis – Defense: April 27, 2018
  
  Thesis Title: Liberating Legal Education: Using Critical Feminist Pedagogy to Educate on the Problems of Oppression and Gender-Based Violence
• Supervisor – Corinne Baray – Thesis – Defense: August 28, 2018
  
  Thesis Title: “This, Too, Shall Pass” : Examining the Path to National Resilience in Israeli Society. A Grounded Theory Approach
• Supervisor – Taryn Hepburn – Thesis – Defense: April 27, 2018
  
  Thesis Title: How to Make a Criminal: A Genealogy of the Youth Criminal Justice System in Canada
• Supervisor – Shanna Hickey – Thesis – Defense: May 1, 2018
  
  Thesis Title: Exploring Canadian Child and Youth Advocacy Centre (CAC/CYAC)
• Supervisor – Steven Hardy – Thesis
  
  Thesis Title: Street involvement, Intravenous drug users, and Police Interactions
• Supervisor – Brooke Fox – MRE
  
  Thesis Title: A Look Inside: An Ethnographic Observational Study on Ontario Bail and Remand Courts
• Supervisor – William Martin – Thesis – Defense: January 10, 2017
  
  Thesis Title: Securitization of Mental Health: An Analysis of Ellen Richardson
• Co-supervisor – Sakif Alam – Thesis – Defense: September 12, 2016
  
  Thesis Title: Enterprise Liability and the Rana Plaza Factory Collapse
• Supervisor – James Liles – Thesis – Defense: September 1, 2016
  
  Thesis Title: Policing Mental Health: A case study of a crisis unit in a major Canadian city
• Supervisor – Jonathan Ravanelli – Defense: April 26, 2016
  
  Thesis Title: Deleuze and Big Data: How Facebook’s Use of Big Data Analytics Shifts Legal Personhood, Privacy and Commerical Expression
• Supervisor – Kyla Doll – Defense: December 16, 2014
  
  Thesis Title: Representations of Gender on the Television Series “Deadly Women”

Publications:

Books

• (2017)��. New York and London: Routledge. (w\ Rose Ricciardelli).
• (2012)�� Toronto and Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press (w\ Karen Foster)
• (2011)��. New York and London: Routledge.

 Edited Volumes

• (2016)��Lexington Books (co-edited with Sandra Walklate)
• (2013) London, New York and Delhi: Anthem Press (co-edited w\ Raul Sanchez Garcia)
• (2012)��.Toronto: University of Toronto Press (co-edited with Kevin Walby and Alan Hunt).

Selected Peer Reviewed Articles

• Spencer, D. & Ricciardelli, R. (2020). Assembling the Chimeric Sex Offender. New Criminal Law Review.
• Fitzgerald, A. & Spencer, D. (2020). . Critical Criminology, 28(1): 43-63.
• Spencer, D., Ricciardelli, R., Walby, K., & Ballucci, D. (2019). Policing: An International Journal, 43(1): 151-165.
• Grace, A., Spencer, D., Ricciardelli, R., & Ballucci, D. (2019). Child Abuse & Neglect, 93: 197-207.
• Bendo, D., Hepburn, T., Spencer, D., & Sinclair, R. (2019). . Children & Society, 33(5): 399-413.
• Dodge, A., Spencer, D., Ricciardelli, R., & Ballucci, D. (2019). Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology 52(4): 499-515.
• Spencer, D., Funk, L., Herron, R., Gerbrandt, E., & Dansereau, L. (2019). Journal of Gerontological Social Work, 62(1): 67-85.
• Spencer, D. (2017) ��Settler Colonial Studies��7(1): 57-71.
• Spencer, D. and Ricciardelli, R. (2017). Theoretical Criminology, 21(3): 380-394.
• Spencer, D. (2015). .��International Review of Victimology,��21(1): 31-44.