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Totem Pole, carved by prisoners, to honour Dr. Liz Elliot

 

Totem_brendaPhotograph by: Les Bazso, Postmedia News, Vancouver Sun

Dr. Liz Elliot a longtime volunteer at Ferndale Correctional Institution has a Totem Pole carved to honour her work done in the Restorative Justice program. 

 

"Most people wouldn't want a prison in their backyard, but she was happy because that's where her heart was," said Brendan Morrison, who was co-director with Elliott at SFU's Centre for Restorative Justice.

 

Video Tribute to Dr. Elliott


Read more: HERE

 

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(Dr. Richard Frank and Natalia Iwanski)

 

 

A student paper explaining a new method for tracking the likely routes of criminals on crime sprees has won a Best Paper award at the 2011 European Intelligence and Security Information

conference. 

 

Authored by math undergraduate Natalia Iwanski and criminology graduate student Richard Frank, the paper, Analyzing an Offender’s Journey to Crime: A Criminal Movement Model (CriMM), was selected from among 260 entries.

 

For more on this story click HERE:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


 

SFU Surrey Podium 2 Unveiled: Cybercrime and Police Studies

 

 

Podium 2, located adjacent to the campus’s main space, the Dale B. Regehr Grand Hall, includes new classrooms and teaching and wet labs for first-year science programs. It also provides physical support for research labs in such areas as kinesiology, criminology, interactive arts and technology, and gerontology.

 

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The School of Criminology’s International Cybercrime Research Centre (ICRC) will be located in Podium 2. The centre’s current research includes studies on criminal networking online, including two major research studies for Public Safety Canada, one of them on the subject of cyber-fraud, says ICRC associate director, Sara Smyth. The centre also oversees the development of cybercrime courses at both the undergraduate and graduate levels.

 

SFU Surrey also provides the Police Studies Certificate program.  Undergraduate courses in police studies are organized into clusters reflecting particular areas of interest. These clusters include, forensic studies, restorative justice, and crime analysis and crime prevention. Courses cover such topics as criminal profiling, terrorism, policing illegal drug markets, and forensic anatomy including skeletal pathology. Forensic courses take advantage of the resources available through our new Centre for Forensic Research.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


 

In Memory of Dr. Elizabeth Elliott 1957-2011

 

Dr. Liz Elliott

 


 

MA in Legal Studies wins national award

Master of Applied Legal Studies students, Spring 2011

The MA in Applied Legal Studies program has received a 2011 Award of Excellence from the Canadian Association for University Continuing Education.

 

The prestigious award was presented at the association’s national conference in Toronto to John Whatley, the CODE program director who received the award on behalf of SFU’s School of Criminology, Centre for Online and Distance Education (CODE) and, in particular, all the people responsible for the design, implementation and continuing delivery of the program.

 

Kristy Martin, who completed the program in 2011, says that the innovative delivery of the program was essential: “My favourite experience in this program was e-live, which provided a more interactive learning opportunity without the need for in class attendance. That allowed those of us who do not live in Vancouver an opportunity to have lectures from our professors and to interact with our fellow students.”

 

Successful completion of the program is required become a Notary Public in BC: BC Notaries Education brochure (PDF).

 


 

 

 

 

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WILD LIFE crime fighter

Dr. Gail Anderson (left)

 

 

 

A co-director of SFU’s Centre for Forensic Research, Dr. Anderson is part of a team of wildlife crime investigation experts who collaborate to teach Wildlife Field Forensics (WFF), a workshop aimed at improving training methods for those working in the field.

 

Click here for the full story.

 

 


 

Congratulations to Govenor General Gold Medal Winner

Jesse Cale.

 

Jesse Cale

 

"The coveted medal is bestowed annually on graduate students with at least 60 semester hours of course credit who have achieved the university’s highest scholastic standing."

 

 

For the full story click here!

 

 


 

 

graduate student Raven bowen: awarded grant from the soroptimist foundation of canada

 

The Soroptimist Foundation of Canada annually offers several $7,500 grants to female graduate students in Canada to assist them with university studies which will qualify them for careers which will improve the quality of women's lives.

 

"Raven has strived to build alliances between sex workers and government and law enforcement officials to develop programmes to reduce the violence and predation experienced by this group of women."

 

For the full story click here!

 

Raven

 

 

 


 

Criminology Honours student ready to make his mark

 

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(PHOTOGRAPH BY SFU PAMR)

Pontus Agren (left) seeks to erase illegal graffit and garner support for programs such as RestArt.

 

"Once arrested and charged for illegal graffiti writing, Agren hopes his thesis on the program, which he credits with changing many lives, will help ensure its survival. A similar restorative justice program steered Agren clear of pursuing a path to illegal graffiti convictions in 1998.

Now threatened by funding cuts in many Lower Mainland municipalities, RestArt was first conceived of by graduate students and professors in SFU’s School of Criminology and launched in 2004."

 

(Carol Thorbes, June 8, 2011)

 


 

MA-ALS PROGRAMME WINS AWARD"

 

"We are pleased to announce that the School of Criminology's MA in Applied Legal Studies has been selected by the Canadian Association for University Continuing Education (CAUCE) for the 2011 excellence in programming award (credit programming over 48 hours).

 

 

CODE Program Director for Criminology Dr John Whatley will attend the June 7th CAUCE awards ceremony in Toronto to accept the award as representative of the team and units that produced this outstanding program."


 

 

 

Paul and Patricia

 

All in the family: l-r: Paul, Patricia and Jeffrey Brantingham use computational criminology to analyse urban crime and design neighbourhoods that are less attractive to criminals.

 

Read the full story at: http://www.sfu.ca/sfunews/news/defeating-crime-with-urban-design.shtml

April 7, 2011

 

 

 

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SFU criminologist David MacAlister on the Tasering of an 11-year-old boy by a Mountie in Prince George. (This after the boy allegedly stabbed a 37-year-old man.)

 

April 2011.

    • CBC News: “David MacAlister, an associate professor at Simon Fraser University's School of Criminology, studies police policies on the use of Tasers, or conductive energy weapons. ‘It doesn't seem right,’ MacAlister said. ‘Canadian law doesn't even hold individuals who are under the age of 12 criminally responsible.’
      “MacAlister said that it's difficult to know just yet why police used the Taser but, to his knowledge, the boy is now the youngest person ever to be shocked with a stun gun by RCMP in Canada, which is a medical concern.”
      The story ran across the country on CBC-TV national news, and on the CBC News Network.
    • The Canadian Press: “‘To hear that somebody as young as 11 was on the receiving end of a big jolt came as a bit of a surprise,’ said MacAlister, who stressed it was impossible to make any conclusions about the officers' conduct without knowing exactly what happened.
      "‘What were the police thinking? What alternative responses were they contemplating? You have to wonder what happened in the situation to merit the use of a Taser.’"
    • QMI news agency (the Quebecor-Toronto Sun group of newspapers): “David MacAlister, a professor of criminology at Simon Fraser University, said  . . . being stunned by a Taser can be harmful, especially if the individual is thin and zapped in the chest.
      "‘The distance between the heart and skin is much smaller and that increases the danger,’ he said. ‘Presumably the 11-year-old would be in that category.’"
      MacAlister also appeared on GlobalTV.
      CBC News story: http://at.sfu.ca/ytrHFt
      The Canadian Press (in the Globe and Mail): http://at.sfu.ca/glgaSL
      QMI/Toronto Sun: http://at.sfu.ca/PeKUdt

 

 

 

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