August 22, 2006 Source: :
http://www.brocku.ca/webnews/displaystory.phtml?TEMPLATE=template.html&sid=1514 Brock professor awarded funding to research hate crime reporting, documentation and case processing Ellen Faulkner, Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology, was recently awarded $47,498 over three years from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) to research and understand what impedes or supports hate crime reporting, documentation and case processing. Her research, entitled "Making Hate Crime: A Study of Police Work," will seek to understand victim experience of hate crime and police and detective discretion in terms of their use of hate crime policy. Faulkner's areas of research and teaching include anti-gay/lesbian violence, violence against women and children, same-sex partner abuse, reproductive technologies, surrogacy contracts, critical criminological and feminist theories, and qualitative/quantitative research methodologies. For the past few years she has been studying hate crimes committed against gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender/transexual persons in Canada. Her manuscript, Living in the Shadows: Queer Bashing in Canada, (under review with Fernwood Press) explores the incidence and victim impact of hate crimes committed against sexual minorities in the Canadian context. For more information, please contact: Ellen Faulkner, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, 905-688-5550, ext. 4754; e- mail: efaulkner@brocku.ca Jeff Sinibaldi, Media Relations Officer, at 905-688-5550, ext. 4687; e-mail: jsinibal@brocku.ca
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