Graduate Students

Erin Knipfel

Email: 
eknipfel@uoguelph.ca
Degree Type: 
Major Research Paper (MRP)
Advisor: 
Carolyn Yule

Research Interests

My research interests focus largely on victim rights, gender-based violence, and victim’s role in court process. My MRP research will be concentrating on the role of Intimate Partner Violence survivors in the bail process while investigating the benefits and drawbacks of their involvement.

Madeleine LaRocque

Email: 
mlaroc06@uoguelph.ca
Degree Type: 
Course-based

Research Interests

My interests lie in wrongful convictions and the criminalization of Indigenous women.

Izzy Li

Email: 
tli15@uoguelph.ca
Degree Type: 
Major Research Paper (MRP)
Advisor: 
Ryan Broll

Bronwyn Mahon

Email: 
bmahon@uoguelph.ca
Degree Type: 
Thesis
Advisor: 
Steph Howells

Research Interests

My research interests include sex trafficking policy, youth victimization, and school culture.

Briana Medeiros

Email: 
bmedeiro@uoguelph.ca
Degree Type: 
Thesis
Advisor: 
Patrick Parnaby

Research Interests

Effectiveness of hotspot policing.

Gabriella Meleski

Email: 
gmeleski@uoguelph.ca
Degree Type: 
Course-based

Research Interests

Analyzing how sociological theories of crime can help explain and predict homicide, with particular attention to femicide.

Kathisan Niranjan

Email: 
niranjak@uoguelph.ca
Degree Type: 
Major Research Paper (MRP)
Advisor: 
Patrick Parnaby

Research Interests

Police response times, specifically what causes such delays that can have tragic consequences and how it can be resolved.

Charlotte O'Connor

Email: 
coconn08@uoguelph.ca
Degree Type: 
Major Research Paper (MRP)
Advisor: 
Minh Do

Research Interests

My research interests include Indigenous politics and justice, specifically Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls.

Joseph Pascucci

Email: 
pascuccj@uoguelph.ca
Degree Type: 
Major Research Paper (MRP)

Research Interests

My research interest focuses on the affects that the COVID-19 Pandemic had on the issue of police work. The project seeks to expand on discussions of police solidarity and accountability, specifically with how times of crisis inform these structures in law enforcement duties.

Arianna Pearman

Email: 
apearman@uoguelph.ca
Degree Type: 
Major Research Paper (MRP)
Advisor: 
Carolyn Yule

Research Interests

Indigenous experience throughout the criminal justice system, with a focus on Indigenous women who did/didn’t experience cultural-specific aids in carceral institutions and how that affects future contact with the criminal justice system.