Taryn Hepburn
PhD Candidate (Legal Studies)
Taryn鈥檚 research interests focus around the intersection of young people and Canadian criminal law. This includes the development and application of youth criminal justice in Canada, the policing and imprisonment of young people, as well as spaces and instances in which youth come in contact with adult justice.
Supervisor:
Dr. Dale Spencer
Education:
BA Double Major in Political Science and Philosophy (Distinction), University of Alberta
MA Legal Studies, 杏吧原创 University
Publications:
Menzie, Lauren, and Taryn Hepburn. (2020). 鈥淗arm in the digital age: Critiquing the construction of victims, harm, and evidence in proactive child luring investigations.鈥 Manitoba Law Journal 43:3. 391-420.
Hepburn, Taryn, Dale C. Spencer, and Rosemary Ricciardelli. (2020). 鈥淩ural Policing, Youth, and Overlapping Fields of Youth Justice.鈥 Youth Justice. Online.
Menzie, Lauren, and Taryn Hepburn. 2019. 鈥淭echnologies of Regulating Sexual Offenses against Youth.鈥 In Sexual Regulation and the Law: A Canadian Perspective, edited by Richard Jochelson and James Gacek. Bradford, Ontario: Demeter Press. (Under contract, anticipated for Fall, 2019)
Bendo, Daniella, Taryn Hepburn, Dale C. Spencer, and Raven Sinclair. 2019. “Advertising 鈥楬appy鈥 Children: The Settler Family, Happiness and the Indigenous Child Removal System.” Children & Society.
Presentations:
鈥淗arm in a Digital Age: Critiquing the Construction of Victims, Harm, and Evidence in Proactive Child Luring Investigations.鈥 Co-presented with Lauren Menzie at Criminal Justice and Evidentiary Thresholds in Canada: the last ten years, University of Manitoba, Oct 26, 2019, Winnipeg, MB.
鈥淧ERMISSION (NOT) GRANTED: Regulation Through Spaces as Coding Machines.鈥 Presented at Emerging Perspectives: FPA Graduate Conference, March 10, 2020, Ottawa, ON.
鈥淒istinguishing Representation from Reality: Critiquing the Use of Proactive Investigations to Police Child Luring,鈥 co-presented with Lauren Menzie at Law & Society Association 2019 Annual Meeting, June 1, Washington, DC. 2019.
鈥淭oo Much of a Good Thing: Managing Young Bodies Through Hope and Risk,鈥 presented at Law, Culture, the Humanities 22nd Annual Conference, March 23, Ottawa, ON. 2019.
鈥淥ntario Team Update: Helen Allen and the Today鈥檚 Child,鈥 presented at Pe-k卯w锚win Project Advisory Board, University of Regina, December 18, Saskatoon, SK. 2017.
鈥淧rivate Conversations: Analyzing Access to Law Through Wittgenstein鈥檚 Language Games,鈥 presented at The Game of Law: Rules, Fools, and Cheats, 杏吧原创 University, March 23, Ottawa, ON. 2017.