NWT RESEARCH DATABASE

Principal Investigator: Moffitt, Pertice M
Licensed Year(s): 2018
Summary: The objectives of this project are to improve the emergency protection order (EPO) process in the Northwest Territories, and, to increase knowledge about the EPO process amongst frontline workers and the general public. A case study approach will be used. Frontline workers (including Shelter workers, Royal Canadian Mounted Police, Justice of the peace officers, Victim Service Workers, Communit...

Principal Investigator: McNeice, Julie
Licensed Year(s): 2003
Summary: The purpose of this project is to identify and explain where crime prevention through social development intercepts with restorative justice, in order to provide an integrated, seamless delivery approach. One objective is to suggest a new and renewed co...

Principal Investigator: Chisholm-Smith, Alexandra
Licensed Year(s): 1995
Summary: The researcher, as part of a wider study on healing, will use a participatory research method to gain insight into the issue of incarcerated women in the NWT. Interviews will take place with women presently incarcerated in the North as well as with those directly involved (healers, correctional officers, government and interest groups)....

Principal Investigator: on Aboriginal Peoples, Royal Commission
Licensed Year(s): 1993
Summary: The Royal Commission has a sixteen part mandate and a detailed research plan. Research will be conducted both in-house and by researchers who are contracted to examine specific research topics. One licence has been issued to the Deputy Director on behalf of the Royal Commission for the northern component of this comprehensive study. Both the mandate and the research plan are available from the ...

Principal Investigator: Patenaude, Allan L.
Licensed Year(s): 1993 1992 1991 1990
Summary: Investigation of existing information contained in documents will continue throughout the 1993 year in the NWT and southern Canada. It is anticipated that limited amounts of field work may be conducted in both Yellowknife and Iqaluit. This work will help to establish necessary baseline information on this subject as well as provide indicators of change. This work is a continuation of research c...

Principal Investigator: Zellerer, Evelyn
Licensed Year(s): 1992
Summary: The researcher and her team will hold discussions with authorities in Yellowknife which will help guide the research. Data will be collected from government documents, archival material, court records, and interviews. Pre-sentence reports will be examined and women who are being held at the Fort Smith Correctional Centre for Women will be interviewed. Correctional authorities and service provid...

Principal Investigator: Posynik, Jim
Licensed Year(s): 1990
Summary: The researchers will collect data from federal crown prosecutor's files and N.W.T. court files and will build from these sources of information a document which will give insight to legal professionals, policy makers and members of the public on how sexual assault cases have been viewed and handled....

Principal Investigator: Downe, Alan G.
Licensed Year(s): 1988
Summary: Mr. Downe will be comparing interviews of 40 sentenced male offenders to 40 adult men who are placed temporarily (remanded) in a correctional centre while the court is making a decision about their case. He wants to be able to advise the courts whether remanded inmates suffer more emotional stress than those who are finished with the court process and sentenced....