Feed Your Mind: “17 going on 23”: Sentencing Children to Life in Canada

Mon. Sep. 18, 2023

Join us for the second Feed Your Mind Lecture of the year, “17 going on 23”: Sentencing Children to Life in Canada," with guest speaker Debra Parkes, co-hosted by the Department of Criminal Justice.

When: November 13th, 1:00 pm- 2:00 pm

Where: 2M72, Manitoba Hall, University of Winnipeg

Debra Parkes is Professor and Chair in Feminist Legal Studies at the Peter A. Allard School of Law, University of British Columbia where she teaches constitutional law, prison law, and feminist legal studies. Debra’s scholarly work examines criminal and carceral systems and she has published widely on issues related to gender and racial (in)equality in those systems, sentencing and punishment practices, and the framing and adjudicating of prisoners’ rights claims. She currently holds an Insight Grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council to study life sentences in Canadian law and society. Debra is a board member of West Coast Prison Justice Society which operates Prisoners’ Legal Services, the only prison law clinic of its kind in Canada. She is a former President of the Canadian Law and Society Association, former Editor-in-Chief of the Canadian Journal of Women and the Law, and former chair of Rise Women’s Legal Centre.

Pizza will be provided! To register, please email global.college@uwinnipeg.ca by Monday, November 6th.