{"id":14262,"date":"2014-06-24T12:36:57","date_gmt":"2014-06-24T16:36:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carleton.ca\/law\/?post_type=cu_people&#038;p=14262"},"modified":"2025-06-23T11:43:26","modified_gmt":"2025-06-23T15:43:26","slug":"dale-spencer","status":"publish","type":"cu_people","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/people\/dale-spencer\/","title":{"rendered":"Spencer, Dale"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"mb-6 cu-pageheader cu-component-updated md:mb-12\">\n    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 pb-5 after:w-10 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px\">\n                    \n             \n                \n            <\/h1>\n\n    \n    <\/header>\n\n\n\n<h3 id=\"areas-of-interest\" class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Areas of Interest<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Realism(s) and the social sciences<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Methods<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Conceptions of homelessness, domicile, and the law<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Criminal Justice responses to sexual violence<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Sex offenses and offenders<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Settler colonialism<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Critical approaches to children and youth<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Micro and macro approaches to violence<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 id=\"recent-awards\" class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Recent Awards<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table class=\"has-fixed-layout\"><tbody><tr><td><strong>March 2020<\/strong><\/td><td>Outstanding Faculty Graduate Mentor Award<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>April 2019<\/strong><\/td><td>Faculty of Public Affairs Research Excellence Award<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><\/td><td>Amount Awarded: $10,000<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>June 2017<\/strong><\/td><td>Ontario Early Researcher Award<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><\/td><td>Amount Awarded: $150,000<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h3 id=\"current-research-projects\" class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Current Research Projects<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Principal Investigator, \u201cDigital Culture, Youth, and Policing: Risk-taking and police response in the information age\u201d. Funding: Ontario Early Researcher Award, $150,000.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Co-investigator, \u201cA 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\u201d. Funding: SSHRC Insight Grant, $313,480; CIHR, $12000.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Principal Investigator, \u201cBrazilian Jiu Jitsu as a Way of Life: Communities of practice, violence and injury\u201d, SSHRC Explore CU Development Grant, $9,460.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<h3 id=\"student-supervisions\" class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Student Supervisions<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<h4 id=\"supervision-of-phd-students-current\" class=\"wp-block-heading\"><em>Supervision of PhD Students (current):<\/em><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Supervisor: Taryn Hepburn (PhD \u2013 current), Law and Legal Studies, 杏吧原创 University.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Supervisor: Corrine Baray (PhD \u2013 current), Law and Legal Studies, 杏吧原创 University.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Supervisor: Bridgette Desjardins (PhD \u2013 current), Law and Legal Studies, 杏吧原创 University.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Supervisor: Daniella Bendo (PhD \u2013 current), Law and Legal Studies, 杏吧原创 University<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Supervisor: Andrew Costa (PhD \u2013 current), Law and Legal Studies, 杏吧原创 University<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Co-Supervisor: Marcus Sibley (PhD \u2013 current), Law and Legal Studies, 杏吧原创 University<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h4 id=\"supervision-of-ma-students-since-2014\" class=\"wp-block-heading\"><em>&nbsp;<\/em><em>Supervision of MA Students&nbsp;(since 2014):<\/em><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Supervisor \u2013 Gurdeep Jagpal \u2013 Thesis \u2013 Defense: January 11, 2019<br><br>Thesis Title: Sikh Males In Ontario And Random Police Stops (Carding)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Supervisor \u2013 Matthew Hopkins \u2013 Major Research Essay \u2013 Submission: August 28, 2018<br><br>Essay Title: The Ontological Deep-Freeze Legal and Political Identity as the End of Becoming<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Supervisor \u2013 Maryan Hatam &#8211; Thesis \u2013 Defense:\u00a0 September 10, 2018<br><br>Thesis Title: The Professionalization of Canadian Correctional Officers: 1920s-1960s<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Supervisor\u00a0 &#8211; Darby Babin &#8211; Thesis \u2013 Defense: April 27, 2018<br><br>Thesis Title: Liberating Legal Education: Using Critical Feminist Pedagogy to Educate on the Problems of Oppression and Gender-Based Violence<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Supervisor \u2013 Corinne Baray &#8211; Thesis \u2013 Defense: August 28, 2018<br><br>Thesis Title: \u201cThis, Too, Shall Pass\u201d : Examining the Path to National Resilience in Israeli Society. A Grounded Theory Approach<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Supervisor \u2013 Taryn Hepburn &#8211; Thesis \u2013 Defense: April 27, 2018<br><br>Thesis Title: How to Make a Criminal: A Genealogy of the Youth Criminal Justice System in Canada<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Supervisor \u2013 Shanna Hickey &#8211; Thesis \u2013 Defense: May 1, 2018<br><br>Thesis Title: Exploring Canadian Child and Youth Advocacy Centre (CAC\/CYAC)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Supervisor &#8211; Steven Hardy \u2013 Thesis<br><br>Thesis Title: Street involvement, Intravenous drug users, and Police Interactions<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Supervisor \u2013 Brooke Fox \u2013 MRE<br><br>Thesis Title: A Look Inside: An Ethnographic Observational Study on Ontario Bail and Remand Courts<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Supervisor \u2013 William Martin \u2013 Thesis \u2013 Defense: January 10, 2017<br><br>Thesis Title: Securitization of Mental Health: An Analysis of Ellen Richardson<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Co-supervisor &#8211; Sakif Alam \u2013 Thesis \u2013 Defense: September 12, 2016<br><br>Thesis Title: Enterprise Liability and the Rana Plaza Factory Collapse<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Supervisor \u2013 James Liles &#8211; Thesis \u2013 Defense: September 1, 2016<br><br>Thesis Title: Policing Mental Health: A case study of a crisis unit in a major Canadian city<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Supervisor \u2013 Jonathan Ravanelli \u2013 Defense: April 26, 2016<br><br>Thesis Title: Deleuze and Big Data: How Facebook\u2019s Use of Big Data Analytics Shifts Legal Personhood, Privacy and Commerical Expression<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Supervisor \u2013 Kyla Doll \u2013 Defense: December 16, 2014<br><br>Thesis Title: Representations of Gender on the Television Series \u201cDeadly Women\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 id=\"publications\" class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Publications:<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<h4 id=\"books\" class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong><em>Books<\/em><\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>(2017)\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.routledge.com\/Violence-Sex-Offenders-and-Corrections\/Ricciardelli-Spencer\/p\/book\/9780367227142\"><em>Violence, Sex Offenders, and Corrections<\/em><\/a>. New York and London: Routledge. (w\\ Rose Ricciardelli).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>(2012)\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ubcpress.ca\/reimagining-intervention-in-young-lives\"><em>Reimagining Intervention in Young Lives: Work, Social Assistance, and Marginalization<\/em>.<\/a> Toronto and Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press (w\\ Karen Foster)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>(2011)\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.routledge.com\/Ultimate-Fighting-and-Embodiment-Violence-Gender-and-Mixed-Martial-Arts\/Spencer\/p\/book\/9780415719551\"><em>Ultimate Fighting and Embodiment: Violence, Gender and Mixed Martial Arts<\/em><\/a>. New York and London: Routledge.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h4 id=\"edited-volumes\" class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong><em>&nbsp;<\/em><\/strong><strong><em>Edited Volumes<\/em><\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>(2016)\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/rowman.com\/ISBN\/9781498510288\/Reconceptualizing-Critical-Victimology-Interventions-and-Possibilities\"><em>Reconceptualizing Critical Victimology: Interventions and Possibilities.<\/em><\/a>Lexington Books (co-edited with Sandra Walklate)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>(2013)<a href=\"https:\/\/anthempress.com\/fighting-scholars-pb\"><em>Fighting Scholars: Ethnographies of Habitus in Martial Arts and Combat Sports<\/em>.<\/a> London, New York and Delhi: Anthem Press (co-edited w\\ Raul Sanchez Garcia)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>(2012)\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/books.google.ca\/books\/about\/Emotions_Matter.html?id=k2L9R0ZBO6wC&amp;redir_esc=y\"><em>Emotions Matter: A relational approach to emotions<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em>Toronto: University of Toronto Press (co-edited with Kevin Walby and Alan Hunt).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h4 id=\"selected-peer-reviewed-articles\" class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong><em>Selected Peer Reviewed Articles<\/em><\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Spencer, D. &amp; Ricciardelli, R. (2020). Assembling the Chimeric Sex Offender. <em>New Criminal Law Review<\/em>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Fitzgerald, A. &amp; Spencer, D. (2020). <a href=\"https:\/\/link.springer.com\/article\/10.1007\/s10612-020-09499-0\">Governmentality and Environmental Rights: Regulatory Failure and the Volkswagen Emissions Fraud Case<\/a>. <em>Critical Criminology, 28<\/em>(1): 43-63.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Spencer, D., Ricciardelli, R., Walby, K., &amp; Ballucci, D. (2019). <a href=\"https:\/\/www.emerald.com\/insight\/content\/doi\/10.1108\/PIJPSM-07-2019-0123\/full\/html\">Cynicism, Dirty Work, and Policing Sex Crimes.<\/a> <em>Policing: An International Journal, 43<\/em>(1): 151-165.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Grace, A., Spencer, D., Ricciardelli, R., &amp; Ballucci, D. (2019). <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/abs\/pii\/S0145213419301632\">Collaborative policing: Networked responses to child victims of sex crimes.<\/a> <em>Child Abuse &amp; Neglect<\/em>, 93: 197-207.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Bendo, D., Hepburn, T., Spencer, D., &amp; Sinclair, R. (2019). <a href=\"https:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/abs\/10.1111\/chso.12335\">Advertising \u201cHappy\u201d Children: The Settler Family, Happiness, and the Indigenous Child Removal System<\/a>. <em>Children &amp; Society<\/em>, 33(5): 399-413.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Dodge, A., Spencer, D., Ricciardelli, R., &amp; Ballucci, D. (2019). <a href=\"https:\/\/journals.sagepub.com\/doi\/abs\/10.1177\/0004865819851544\">\u2018This isn\u2019t your father\u2019s police force\u2019: Digital evidence in sex crime investigations.<\/a> <em>Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology<\/em> 52(4): 499-515.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Spencer, D., Funk, L., Herron, R., Gerbrandt, E., &amp; Dansereau, L. (2019). <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/abs\/10.1080\/01634372.2018.1505796?src=recsys&amp;journalCode=wger20\">Fear, Defensive Strategies and Caring for Cognitively Impaired Family Members.<\/a> <em>Journal of Gerontological Social Work<\/em>, 62(1): 67-85.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Spencer, D. (2017) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/abs\/10.1080\/2201473X.2016.1152651?journalCode=rset20\">Extraction and Pulverization: A narrative analysis of Canada Scoop survivors.<\/a>\u00a0<em>Settler Colonial Studies<\/em>\u00a07(1): 57-71.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Spencer, D. and Ricciardelli, R. (2017). <a href=\"https:\/\/journals.sagepub.com\/doi\/10.1177\/1362480616647590\">\u201cThey\u2019re a very sick group of individuals\u201d: Correctional officers, emotions, and sex offenders.\u00a0<\/a><em>Theoretical Criminology, 21<\/em>(3): 380-394.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Spencer, D. (2015). <a href=\"https:\/\/journals.sagepub.com\/doi\/10.1177\/0269758014547992\">Corporeal Realism and Victimology<\/a>.\u00a0<em>International Review of Victimology,\u00a0<\/em>21(1): 31-44.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24046,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"cu_people_first_name":"Dale","cu_people_last_name":"Spencer","cu_people_initials":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_people_type":[22],"cu_people_expertise":[],"class_list":["post-14262","cu_people","type-cu_people","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","cu_people_type-faculty"],"acf":{"cu_people_job_title":"Professor","cu_people_degree":"B.A., M.A. (Windsor), Ph.D. (杏吧原创), Banting Postdoctoral Fellow (Alberta)","cu_building":false,"cu_people_office_num":"","cu_people_pronoun":"none","cu_people_designation":"","cu_people_email":"Dale.Spencer@杏吧原创.ca","cu_people_phone":"","cu_people_phone_ext":"8096","cu_people_linkedin":"","cu_people_bluesky":"","cu_people_twitter":"","cu_people_instagram":"","cu_people_facebook":"","cu_people_website":"","cu_people_orcid":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/14262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/cu_people"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/14262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29593,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/14262\/revisions\/29593"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_people_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people_type?post=14262"},{"taxonomy":"cu_people_expertise","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people_expertise?post=14262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}