Completed
Projects
Research
1 États des lieux sur les violences faites aux femmes en Outaouais
Summary
FemAnVi and the Assemblée des groupes de femmes d’interventions régionales en Outaouais (AGIR) conducted research on the state of violence against women in the Outaouais. This project aimed to 1) Carry out a regional inventory of violence against women (Description of the situation in the Outaouais) 2) Document the impact of organizations working in violence against women, and 3) Disseminate the state of places with a view to promoting the consideration of the realities of women in the territory in the work of local and regional consultation bodies.
Publications
Research team
Simon Lapierre et Michèle Frenette, in partnership with Florence Bovet et Mélanie Brunet
2 The experience and perspective of children and adolescents exposed to domestic violence
Summary
This qualitative and participative research aims at documenting the experience and perspective of francophone children and adolescents who have been exposed to domestic violence in Quebec and Ontario.
Publications
, Difficult but close relationships: Children’s perspectives on the relationships with their mothers in the context of domestic violence, Violence Against Women (2017)
, Placer l’expérience et le point de vue des enfants et des adolescents au centre des recherches sur l’exposition à la violence conjugale, Enfants, adolescents, violence et société, Presses de l’Université du Québec Canada Québec, 2016 Éditeurs: Lapierre, S., G. Lessard & L. Hamelin-Brabant
, « La vérité sort de la bouche des enfants » : l’importance de donner la parole aux enfants exposés à la violence conjugale, Nouvelles pratiques sociales, Volume 28, Numéro 1, 250-275 (2016)
, Comprendre le contexte de la violence pour rendre visibles les inégalités de pouvoir entre les femmes et les hommes : le point de vue d’enfants et d’adolescents exposés à la violence conjugale, Enfances, familles, générations, Volume 22, 51-67 (2015)
Research team
Simon Lapierre, Isabelle Côté, Dominique Damant, Marie Drolet, Chantal Lavergne and Geneviève Lessard, in partnership with the Regroupement des maisons pour femmes victimes de violence conjugale.
Funding source
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, 2010-2011, 2011-2016
3 Domestic Violence and Parental Alienation (Part I)
Summary
The purpose of this research is to assess the extent of the phenomenon by which women who are victims of domestic violence are accused of parental alienation. This qualitative and quantitative study was conducted in several shelters across Quebec.
Publications
, Abused women and the threat of parental alienation: Shelter workers’ perspectives, Children and Youth Services Review, Volume65, 120-126 (2016)
Research team
Simon Lapierre and Isabelle Côté, in partnership with Regroupement des maisons pour femmes victimes de violence conjugale, Fédération des maisons d’hébergement pour femmes and Action ontarienne contre la violence faite aux femmes
4 Action research aiming at the development, the implementation and the evaluation of an intervention tool facilitating mother-child communication in the context of domestic violence
Summary
This action research project aims to develop, implement and evaluate an intervention tool to facilitate mother-child communication in the context of domestic violence. The intervention tool is now implemented in shelters in Canada and the United States.
Publications
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Research team
Simon Lapierre, Chantal Bourassa, Cécile Coderre, Isabelle Côté, Dominique Damant, Marie-Luce Garceau, Louise Hamelin, Chantal Lavergne et Geneviève Lessard, in partnership with Regroupement des maisons pour femmes victimes de violence conjugale and Action ontarienne contre la violence faite aux femmes.
Funding source
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, 2012-2016
5 "Help me to protect them": Sociojudicial interventions in the context of domestic violence and the consequences on mother-child relationship
Summary
This projects aimed to highlight the consequences of sociojudicial interventions on the mother-child relationship in context of domestic violence. It denounced the injustices experienced by women when sociojudicial interventions are not adapted to the domestic violence post-separation context, interventions which consequently compromise the security of women and their children. This project included the making of a documentary and pedagogical material.
Research team
Simon Lapierre, Charlotte Gagnon and Michèle Frenette, in partnership with La Maison d’Ariane
Funding source
Agence de santé et de services sociaux des Laurentides, University of Ottawa, 2015-2016