CJ Day 2025
Join us for CJ Day 2025, our annual thesis presentation event celebrating the hard work and research of Criminal Justice honours students! Happening on April 8th, 2025, from 8:30 AM to 3:30 PM in room 2M70, this event is open to all – no registration required.
Event Program:
Opening Remarks & Refreshments:
–– 8:30am – Coffee & Pastries ––
–– 8:50am – Opening Remarks ––
Session 1:
–– 9:00am-10:35am – Institutional principles vs. Institutional practices ––
Stephanie Kennedy, Do Indigenous Healing Lodge programs offered by Correctional Service of Canada (CSC) honour its intended purpose envisioned by prison advocates; or has this program become a modernized extension of Canada’s colonial prison institutions? (Supervisor: Dawnis Kennedy)
Ashlynn Argo, Times Up on Prisoner 'Time Outs': CSC's Infantilizing Approach to Incarceration and Its Impacts on Reintegration (Supervisor: Kevin Walby)
MacKenzie Zacharias, Safety, Space, and Solidarity: How Student Encampments Reveal the Contested Nature of the University (Supervisor: Bronwyn Dobchuk-Land)
Georgina Costantino, Modernizing Colonialism: How the State Shifts Control Over Indigenous Families (Supervisors: Bronwyn Dobchuk-Land & Dawnis Kennedy)
Discussant: Dr. Katharina Maier, Associate Professor, Criminal Justice
Session 2:
–– 10:45am-12:00pm – Stigma, violence, and value in Criminal Justice practice ––
Nicole Murdock, #SearchTheLandfill: A Necropolitical Reading of the Indigenous Corpse in Â鶹´«Ã½ News Media (Supervisor: Alex Tepperman)
Martha Krawzcuk, Views of Sex Offenders: Interpretations from Correctional Officers Working in Canada’s Federal System (Supervisor: Marcella Siquiera-Cassiano)
Shelby Buhle, Colonizing Urban Spaces: Indigenous Women, Sex Work Laws, and Vancouver's Downtown Eastside (Supervisor: Kevin Walby)
Discussant: Dr. Steven Kohm, Professor, Criminal Justice
–– 12:00pm-12:45pm - Lunch ––
Session 3:
–– 12:45pm-2pm – Logics of Punishment ––
Rose Machado, “Can your country escape sensational stereotypes? An analysis of prison escape room tripadvisor reviews in the US and Canada.” (Supervisor: Kevin Walby)
Olivia Block Loewen, 'Bitches Love to Talk': The implications of digital whisper networks on our understanding and delegation of punishment (Supervisor: Kevin Walby)
Caitlin Damm, Gender Disparity in Sentencing Outcomes: An Analysis of Sexual Crimes Against Children (Supervisor: Alex Tepperman)
Discussant: Dr. Kelly Gorkoff, Associate Professor & Chair, Criminal Justice
Session 4:
–– 2:10pm - 3:25pm – Reforming and Transforming Justice ––
Charlotte Ashcroft, Contending with the Unspeakables: Non-reformist Reforms as Transformative Justice for Pedophiles (Supervisor: Kevin Walby)
Jhoanna Altasin, Manitoba, have you ever tried this one? A Survivor-Centred Approach to Protection Orders (Supervisor: Kelly Gorkoff)
Emily Kapell, Coercion and Exploitation: Making the Case for a Health-Based Approach to Trafficking (Supervisor: Kelly Gorkoff)
Discussant: Dr. Bronwyn Dobchuk-Land, Associate Professor, Criminal Justice
–– 3:30pm - Closing remarks ––