Jennifer Kilty Joins Robsoncrim.com Team

Robson Crim is proud to announce another great addition to our team. We are excited to engage in exciting and heated discussions about criminal law, justice and criminology related issues in Canada and abroad. We are delighted to welcome Professor Jennifer Kilty to the team.

Jennifer M. Kilty is Associate Professor and Associate Chair in the Department of Criminology, University of Ottawa. Her research examines the social construction of dangerous girls/women, the medicalization of criminalized women, self-harm and segregation practices in prison, and the criminalization of HIV nondisclosure. In addition to numerous peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters, she edited two books in 2014 – Within the Confines: Women and the Law in Canada (Women’s Press) and Demarginalizing Voices: Commitment, Emotion and Action in Qualitative Research (UBC Press), and published her first book, The Enigma of a Violent Woman: A Critical Examination of the case of Karla Homolka (Routledge) in 2016.