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 Winnipeg 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 ––