Diane Crocker
Faculty of Arts
Criminology
Professor
Office: MS419
Email: diane.crocker@smu.ca
Diane Crocker is a Professor in the Department of Criminology at Saint Mary’s University. Her work explores the use of law to address social problems, particularly those that disproportionately affect women. She is currently a member of iMPACTS: Collaborations to Address Sexual Violence on Campus and regularly advises government and community agencies on projects related the gender-based violence. Most recently, Dr. Crocker lead and evaluation of Nova Scotia’s Standing Together initiative developed a provincial domestic violence action plan for the province. She served as a research and policy advisor for the Mass Causality Commission. She is also working closing with universities across Nova Scotia and developing effective sexual violence prevention and response policies and a multi-university exploration of students’ experiences. Her recent book Violence Interrupted, co-edited with Joanne Minaker and Amanda Nelund, provides a collection of essays about researcher related to campus sexual violence in Canada.
Her areas of research included gender-based violence, restorative justice, narrative research methods and program evaluation.
Crocker, D.; Norris, D.; Gosse, M.; Bookchin, S. (2024) “The legal system must show more compassionto survivors of sexual abuse.” The Conversation, April 1, 2024.
https://theconversation.com/the-legal-system-must-show-more-compassion-to-survivors-of-sexual-abuse-222983
Crocker, D. and Dej, E. (2024), "“Our stories are different but our situations are the same”: gendered experiences finding housing", Housing, Care and Support, Vol. 27 No. 2, pp. 77-89. https://doi.org/10.1108/HCS-11-2021-0033.
Crocker, D., & Dufour, G. (2023). Developing campus anti-violence policies: Lessons learned from the criminalization of domestic and sexual violence. In C. Dietzel & S. Shariff (Eds.) Interupting Sexual Violence: The Power of Law, Education and Media. (pp 3-24). Peter Lang Publisher.
Crocker, D., & Silbey, M. (2020). Transforming Campus Rape Culture: Lessons from Complexity Theory. In S. Marine & R. Lewis (Eds.), Collaborating for Change: Transforming Cultures to End Gender Based Violence in Higher Education (pp. 23-46). Oxford University Press.
Crocker, D., Minaker, J., & Nelund, A. (2020). Violence Interrupted : Confronting Sexual Violence on University Campuses.McGill-Queen's University Press.
Crocker, D. (2020). Telling Stories and Making Sense of Campus Culture. In Violence Interrupted: Confronting Sexual Violence on University Campuses (pp. 371-388). McGill University Press.
Crocker, D. (2017). The Domestic Violence Court Pilot Project: Lessons from and Evaluation. In T. Augusta-Scott, K. Scott, & L. Tutty (Eds.), Innovations in Interventions to Address Intimate Partner Violence: Research and Practice (pp. 125-138).
CURRENT FUNDING
Developping a Principle-Based Approach to Campus Sexual Violence Prevention (Principal Investigator) $14,000 from NS Department of Advanced Education
Alternative Responses to Intimate Partner Violence in
Halifax Regional Municipality (Principal Investigator) $10,000 from the YWCA of Halifax
IMPACTS: Collaborations to Address Sexual Violence on Campus $2,000,000 Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council. Partnership Grant (Co-Applicant; Principal Investigator Shareen Sharriff)
Gender-based violence
Restorative justice
Narrative research methods and program evaluation