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Rosemary Gartner

Rosemary Gartner

Recent and forthcoming publications:

Professor Gartner's research has examined comparative and historical patterns of violence, gender and intimate violence, the imprisonment of women, and relationships between legitimate and illegitimate violence.

  • C. Kruttschnitt, R. Gartner and J. Hussemann. 2008. " Female Violent Offenders: Moral Panic or More Serious Offenders." Australian & New Zealand Journal of Criminology.
  • R. Gartner and B. McCarthy. 2008. "20th Century Trends in Homicide Followed by Suicide in Four North American Cities." In Historical Studies in Suicide, John Weaver and David Wright (eds.). Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
  • R. Gartner and B. McCarthy. 2006. "Maternal infanticide and the dark figure of homicide." In Gender and Crime: Patterns of Victimization and Offending, K Heimer and C. Kruttschnitt (eds.). New York: Aldine de Gruyter.
  • C. Kruttschnitt and R. Gartner. 2005. Marking Time in the Golden State: Women's Imprisonment in California. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • R. Gartner. 2005. "Violent crime." In Encyclopedia of Sociology, G. Ritzer (ed.). Oxford: Blackwell.
  • R. Gartner. 2004. "Trends in crime and criminal justice in Canada and the U.S. in the post-Charter period." In Crime and the Criminal Justice System in Canada, M. Kaslorr and C. Drennen (eds.). Bowling Green: Canadian Studies Centre, Bowling Green State University.
  • R. Gartner and S. Thompson. 2004. "Trends in homicide in Toronto." In From Enforcement and Prevention to Civic Engagement: Research on Community Safety, B. Kidd and J. Phillips (eds.). Toronto: Centre of Criminology, University of Toronto.
  • R. Gartner and M. Dawson. 2004. "Deviance and crime." In New Society: Sociology for the 21st Century, T.R. Brym (ed.). Toronto: Nelson/Thomson.
  • R. Gartner and C. Kruttschnitt. 2004. " A brief history of doing time: The California Institution for Women in the 1960s and the 1990s." Law and Society Review Vol. 38, no. 2, pp. 267-304.

Ongoing & Future Research

An ongoing study of women’s experiences of violent victimization and offending. This study uses a life-calendar methodology to collect detailed information on women’s lives in the three years prior to entering prison in order to contextualize their experiences of violence in their larger life circumstances. Detailed narratives are also collected about women’s involvement in violence, as victims and/or perpetrators, and their experiences of avoided violence.

An ongoing study of homicide in four cities (Toronto, Vancouver, Buffalo, Seattle) from 1900-1999 (Collaborator: Professor Bill McCarthy, University of California, Davis). This study will document the incidence and characteristics of the approximately 8,000-9,000 cases of homicide known to officials in these four cities, and track trends in homicide over the 20th century.

Criminology Courses Taught:

  • CRI 2010. Methodological Issues in Criminology
  • WDW 380H. Crime and Gender
  • WDW 480H. Interpersonal Violence.