Announcements

We are thrilled to share the Summer 2022 issue of the DCSSJ Newsletter! We are immensely grateful to our contributors for their time and continued support:

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On April 11th, the WVU Research Center on Violence partnered with WVU Peer Advocates, WVU Believe Them, and RDVIC to proudly bring the Clothesline Project to the WVU Rec Center. This annual events brings awareness and resources to those impacted by sexual harm and gender-based violence. Pictures and videos of this year's display are available here. We were also interviewed by the Daily Athenaeum, the WVU's independent student newspaper. You can read our feature here. 

We will be holding a second display of the Clothesline Project at the WVU Downtown Library on April 27th from 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. We hope to see you there!

Please join WVU Research Center on Violence Dr. Walter DeKeseredy next Tuesday (Wed. in Australia) to help launch Charlotte Bunch and our Research Associate Sandra Walklate's new book Coercive Control. The event is free, and you can register at this link. The panel will feature some of the world's leading experts in the field.

Nearly 20% of women and over 5% of men experience sexual assault during college. And with more students coming back to campus after learning remotely during the height of the pandemic, it's critical for them to be mindful of potential dangers like this. 

WVU Research Center on Violence Dr. Walter DeKeseredy made a video contribution to the University of New England's Research Centre on Rural Criminology's Researchers Snapshot Series.

Enough is enough. The time has come to end woman abuse in rural communities. 

Dr. Walter DeKeseredy was featured on Minnesota Public Radio. He talked about violent crime in rural place. For more information, go to this link:
https://www.mprnews.org/episode/2021/08/25/davis-violent-crime-has-risen-in-cities-across-the-nation-what-about-rural-areas

Center Director, Dr. Walter DeKeseredy, has been featured in the news this week due to the controversy of a professional hockey team, the Montreal Canadiens, selecting as a first round draftee a person who has been convicted of image-based sexual abuse against a woman. Here you can find links to both the television news program featuring Dr. DeKeseredy and a newspaper article from the day before where he discusses the insensitivity of sexual violence and women’s safety in this selection. He as well as other advocates have expressed their deep concerns in the aftermath of this selection and the damage that results. He also discusses the role of male peer support and how it further perpetuates and facilitates harm in violence against women and girls. Since the announcement of the draft pick and subsequent backlash, the team owner has released a statement of apology. Dr. DeKeseredy says that the statement and the actions outlined in it moving forward are not sufficient and not the way to deal with the issue, signaling a bigger problem within the organization.