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Dale Ballucci

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Dale Ballucci, Assistant Professor

Ph.D. U. Alberta (Sociology) Full CV  pdf
M.A. U. Windsor (Sociology)
B.A. Hon U. Guelph (Sociology)

 

Current Research Projects

Police Response to Sex Crimes (Provincially Funded)

Police Response to Prolific/Chronic and High Risk Offenders (SSHRC Funded)

Policing Child and Youth Sexual Victimization in Canada (SSHRC Funded)

Risk Assessment Tools in Response to Intimate Partner Violence (IPV): The Strengths and Challenges from a Policing Perspective (SSHRC Funded)

Working Toward the Development of a Sustainable and Evidence-informed Community-Police Strategy for Reducing Intimate Partner Violence in New Brunswick (SSHRC funded)

The Legal Governance of Children: Legal Decision-Making in Unaccompanied Refugee Child Claimants (Internally funded)


Currently Teaching

  • 3260B - 001 Sociology of Law
  • 4407G-001/9130B-650 Criminological Theory and Research
  • 4455F - 001 Advanced Sociology of Law

Media Attention

Jan. 23 audio "Canada" International Perspectives on Sociology

Recent Publications (Past 5 Years)
>for more see pdf Full CV

Articles

(2020) "‘Keep Them on the Straight and Narrow’: Understanding, Selecting and Governing Subjects Through Intensive Supervision Units" (with Garrett Lecoq and Dale Spencer) The British Journal of Criminology DOI: 10.1093/bjc/azaa081.

(2019) "Police Officers Attitudes about Intimate Partner Violence in New Brunswick, Canada" (with Carmen Gill and Mary Ann Campbell) The Police Journal DOI: 10.1177/0032258X19876974.

(2019) "“This isn’t your father’s police force”: Digital evidence in sexual assault investigations" (with Alexa Dodge, Dale Spencer and Rose Ricciardelli) Australian & New Zealand Journal of Criminology 52(4): 499–515.

(2018) "Informing Police Response to Intimate Partner Violence: Predictors of Perceived Usefulness of Risk Assessment Screening" (with Mary Ann Campbell and Gill Carmen) Journal of Police and Criminal Psychology 33(2): 175-187.

(2018) "“I Think It’s Re-Victimizing Victims Almost Every Time”: Police Perceptions of Criminal Justice Responses to Sexual Violence" (with Dale Spencer, Alexa Dodge and Rose Ricciardelli) Critical Criminology 26(2): 189-209.

(2017) "The Power of Attitude: Police Culture and Attitude in the Understanding Receptivity to Risk Assessment in IPV Calls" (with Carmen Gill and Mary Ann Campbell) Policing: A Journal of Policy and Practice 11(3): 242-257.

Chapters

(2019) "Imprisoned at Large: The Perpetual State of Accusation" in George Pavlich and Matthew P. Unger, eds., Entryways to Criminal Justice: Accusation and Criminalization in Canada, University of Alberta Press

Reports

(2016) “982 Police perception and intervention in intimate partner violence situations in New Brunswick” (with Carmen Gill and Mary Ann Campbell) Canada Injury Prevention 22 (Suppl):A349.3-A350 September 2016

(2016) Police responses to online and offline sexual violence and harassment in Canada: Challenges, needs and experiences (with D. Spencer, R. Ricciardelli, A. Dodge, J. Liles, A. Grace, and J. Hruschka). Prepared for the Ministry of Community, 45 pages.

(2016) A Newfoundland and Labrador Focus - Police responses to online and offline sexual violence and harassment in Canada: Challenges, needs and experiences (with D. Spencer, R. Ricciardelli, A. Dodge, J. Liles, A. Grace, and J Hruschka). Revised for the Royal Newfoundland Constabulary, St. John’s, Newfoundland, 50 pages.

(2013) Considerations for Determining Police Needs: Moving Beyond Police-to-Population (“Pop-to-Cop”) Ratios, Saint John Police Force. 17 pages.