Lori A Chambers
Biographic Data
| ID | 81650 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lori A Chambers |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lori A |
| FAMILY NAME | Chambers |
| SIGNATURE | CHAMBERS L A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Lakehead University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9835-607X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 39 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 44 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 39 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Women's Fear and Risk Factors
Using supplementary police reports from 700 intimate partner violence calls, risk factors and victim's condition of being afraid were investigated as predictors of charges indicative of coercive controlling behavior. Police-assessed state of women's fear was a good indication of the presence of several coercive control risk factors. Women's fear and 20 risk factors were related to coercive control-type and lethality-type charges laid. Using multi…
Childhood and the Law
Childhood and the Law in Canada: The Family/State Relationship provides comprehensive case reviews of six leading Canadian decisions regarding the relationships among children, their parents, and the state. Each chapter provides the facts of the case, places these facts in historical context, and closes with a discussion of the social implications of the law, subsequent statutory reform, and ongoing public debates. The book is intended for use in…
Staff Perspectives on Harm Reduction in Violence against Women Shelters across Ontario
Mary Jane Mossman, Quiet Rebels
Gatekeepers to Justice
Police officers play a central role in attaining justice for sexual assault survivors. Disclosing sexual assault is critical to attain justice and foster support, yet survivors often experience negative interactions when disclosing sexual victimization to the police. Police officers’ experiences investigating sexual assault have not been explored. Qualitative methods were used to explore the experiences of police officers who respond to reports o…
Story Sharing for Sexual Health
Story Sharing for Sexual Health
Objective: There is a scarcity of research on sexual health education among women in South Asian diasporic communities in Canada, resulting in a need for designing culturally relevant approaches to teach about sexual health and HIV prevention, seen as taboo topics. This community-based research study was designed to determine the effectiveness of using culturally relevant stories as a model for sexual health education for South Asian immigrant wo…
A milestone in Canadian legal history
This review essay critically examines the first volume, covering the period from pre-contact until 1866, of a three-volume history of law in Canada. The essay assesses, in particular, how the book deals with Indigenous law and Indigenous-settler legal relations as well as the histories of private law and criminal justice in the French and British colonies that now constitute Canada. The book is an extraordinary achievement. It surveys a vast numb…
From Pride to Lies
The Supreme Court of Canada has ruled on four cases of women’s defensive violence in the context of intimate partner violence. The Canadian news media plays a role in explaining the legal and social importance of these decisions. Its coverage can contribute to stronger social awareness of the problem and legal tools available or to the perpetuation of myths about intimate partner violence and the role of the courts. Examining local and national n…
Police officer perspectives on the challenges of investigating sexual assault
Police officers have an important role in attaining justice for survivors of sexual assault, yet investigations are complex, and survivors identify negative disclosure experiences with the police. Public discourse highlights the failure of police in sexual assault cases, yet little attention has been given to the perspectives of police officers and the challenges they face in the processing of sexual assault cases. This qualitative study explored…
Listen to her
In response to critical turns in knowledge production, scholars of African descent have developed culturally responsive arts-based methodologies. Congruent with culturally responsive research is incorporating home knowing practices such as the poetics of many African and Africentric storytelling practices. This article presents my reflections as a Canadian researcher of African descent on 're-finding' culturally responsive poetic inquiry to inter…
Sexual Assault Case Attrition
Sexual assault case attrition is pervasive within the criminal justice process. Despite initiating a police report following sexual victimization, many survivors make the decision to withdraw their police report and do not proceed with charges. Attrition of sexual assault cases at the point of entry to the criminal justice system is problematic for survivors as justice is not achieved and connections to support services are lacking. As such, the …
Understanding Women Who Try to Kill Their Abusers
Background: The news coverage of domestic violence survivors who lethally defend themselves is often negative and promotes misconceptions. The trials of Nicole Doucet, who tried to hire a hitman to kill her abusive husband, provides an opportunity to assess if tone of the coverage changed over time. Analysis: News coverage of the Ryan case started neutral or favourable to Doucet and included feminist legal analysis. Interjections by Michael Ryan …
Sexual Assault
Rates of sexual victimization among Indigenous women are 3 times higher when compared with non-Indigenous women. The purpose of this secondary data analysis was to explore the experiences and recommendations of Indigenous women who reported sexual assault to the police and were not believed. This qualitative study of the experiences of 11 Indigenous women reflects four themes. The women experienced (a) victimization across the lifespan, (b) viole…
Moving Towards an Indigenous Research Process
Moving towards reconciliation within Indigenous research requires the careful examination of existing practices at all stages of the research process. Engagement in and dissemination of reflexive processes may increase the relevance of research results for Indigenous communities and partners. This article describes and contextualizes the results obtained from this qualitative research study examining parenting needs and child reunification in the…
Development and Implementation of Peer Leader Training for Community-Based Participatory Sexual Health Research
The SSSH peer research training program was effective. Peer leaders demonstrated effectiveness in liaising with partner agencies, engaging South Asian women in sexual health discussion, completing CBPR activities and team building. Knowledge generated can be applied in CBPR with other racialized women populations
Understanding the Landscape of Substance Use Management Practices in Domestic Violence Shelters across Ontario
J oan S angster . One Hundred Years of Struggle
One Hundred Years of Struggle: The History of Women and the Vote in Canada is the first in what will be a series of seven books examining women’s struggles and victories in pursuit of political equality in Canada. It is an excellent introduction to the series. Joan Sangster has the difficult task of providing an overview of the diversity of suffragists’ goals, strategies, victories, and setbacks as they varied over time, place, and the social loc…
Decolonizing Scoping Review Methodologies for Literature With, for, and by Indigenous Peoples and the African Diaspora
This article summarizes our deepened understanding of decolonizing research with, for, and by Indigenous peoples and peoples of African descent that emerged from conducting a scoping review of the methodological literature and reflecting on our review process. Although our review identified decolonizing methodologies as a promising approach, we questioned if our scoping review process engaged in decolonizing knowing. To unpack the epistemological…
Images of Marie Curie
Marie Curie holds iconic status both within the scientific community and in the wider cultural imagination and collective memory. The first woman to be awarded a Nobel Prize and the only woman to achieve such an honor twice, Curie is widely celebrated as a female pioneer in the sciences and is held up as a model for all, but particularly women, to emulate. She is revered not only as a ground-breaking scientist, but also as a devoted wife and moth…
Sexual violence
Physical and mental health inequalities among aging lesbian, gay, and bisexual Canadians
Battered Women under Duress
The case of R. v Ryan presented the Supreme Court of Canada with a novel question: may a wife, whose life is threatened by her abusive husband, rely on the defence of duress when she tries to have him murdered? In this article, we argue that by answering this novel question in the negative, the Court missed an opportunity to clarify the nature and scope of the defence of duress in the context of battered and abused women in a principled manner an…
A Missed Opportunity
On July 13, 2013, the Commission for Public Complaints released the Report Following a Public Interest Investigation into the Conduct of RCMP Members in Nova Scotia in Respect to Matters Involving Nicole (Ryan) Doucet . After interviewing all parties involved and reviewing 25 incidences involving Ms. Doucet and Mr. Ryan, the Acting Commissioner, Ian McPhail, concluded the RCMP’s policy regarding violence in relationships “was followed at all time…
Jordan's Principle
Jordan's PrincipleThe Struggle to Access On-Reserve Health Care for High-Needs Indigenous Children in Canada Lori Chambers (bio) and Kristin Burnett (bio) Beginning in the late 1950s, the federal and provincial governments of Canada introduced legislation intended to provide hospital and insured medical services for all Canadians. With the passage of the Medical Care Act in 1966 these services were extended to include all hospital care and medica…
Asserting citizenship
Physical and mental health inequalities among aging lesbian, gay, and bisexual Canadians
A House is not a Home
HIV-positive mothers living in Toronto, ON, face myriad economic and social challenges that put them at risk for housing instability and homelessness. These challenges are exacerbated for mothers from African and Caribbean communities as they navigate a web of shelter, housing, health care and social care systems that do not adequately address their social positioning as HIV-positive and racialized mothers. To date, there is a dearth of research …
Listen to her
In response to critical turns in knowledge production, scholars of African descent have developed culturally responsive arts-based methodologies. Congruent with culturally responsive research is incorporating home knowing practices such as the poetics of many African and Africentric storytelling practices. This article presents my reflections as a Canadian researcher of African descent on 're-finding' culturally responsive poetic inquiry to inter…
Not Just “A Roof over Your Head”
The literature has identified housing as a fundamental unmet need for people living with HIV; yet there has been little qualitative evidence exploring housing and HIV, particularly from a Canadian context. This paper focuses on our qualitative analyses of the housing experiences of 48 HIV-positive people living in Ontario. Findings from our interviews illustrate healthy housing as a dynamic interconnection between health, housing and other social…
Sexual Assault
Rates of sexual victimization among Indigenous women are 3 times higher when compared with non-Indigenous women. The purpose of this secondary data analysis was to explore the experiences and recommendations of Indigenous women who reported sexual assault to the police and were not believed. This qualitative study of the experiences of 11 Indigenous women reflects four themes. The women experienced (a) victimization across the lifespan, (b) viole…
Settler Colonialism, Indigenous Peoples and Food
This article looks at settler colonialism and the manufacturing of food insecurity in Indigenous communities located in present-day northern Canada after 1945. The federal government undermined the foodways of Indigenous peoples and sought to make them reliant on a southern market based food economy through the criminalization of Indigenous hunting and harvesting practices and the imposition of government programs like Family Allowance, Foodmail,…
Prejudice Unveiled
The public use of the niqab and other religious face coverings is a source of considerable debate in Western nations. The veiled Muslim woman is often constructed as “other,” reviled as backward, represented as in need of rescue, or associated with Islamic extremism. Despite widespread racist attitudes, officially, Canadians purport to support multiculturalism and the equality of all people under the law as guaranteed under section 15 of the Char…
Understanding the Landscape of Substance Use Management Practices in Domestic Violence Shelters across Ontario
Jordan's Principle
Jordan's PrincipleThe Struggle to Access On-Reserve Health Care for High-Needs Indigenous Children in Canada Lori Chambers (bio) and Kristin Burnett (bio) Beginning in the late 1950s, the federal and provincial governments of Canada introduced legislation intended to provide hospital and insured medical services for all Canadians. With the passage of the Medical Care Act in 1966 these services were extended to include all hospital care and medica…
Women's Labour, Relationship Breakdown and Ownership of the Family Farm
The dominant story of matrimonial property law reform in English Canada treats the farming family case of Murdoch v. Murdoch as the great catalyst for change, but there are persistent inequalities affecting farm women, even in provinces that have made progressive changes in the law of relationship breakdown. The farm is the quintessential family business and is both place of residence and source of income. Since the farm is not readily divisible,…
Sexual Assault Case Attrition
Sexual assault case attrition is pervasive within the criminal justice process. Despite initiating a police report following sexual victimization, many survivors make the decision to withdraw their police report and do not proceed with charges. Attrition of sexual assault cases at the point of entry to the criminal justice system is problematic for survivors as justice is not achieved and connections to support services are lacking. As such, the …
Married Women and the Law of Property in Victorian Ontario
Ontario Since Confederation
Articles ranging widely with politics,economics, and social history contain some of the most recent scholarship in the field of post-Confederation Ontario history, encompassing both traditional and newly emerging topics.
Women's Labour, Relationship Breakdown and Ownership of the Family Farm
The dominant story of matrimonial property law reform in English Canada treats the farming family case of Murdoch v. Murdoch as the great catalyst for change, but there are persistent inequalities affecting farm women, even in provinces that have made progressive changes in the law of relationship breakdown. The farm is the quintessential family business and is both place of residence and source of income. Since the farm is not readily divisible,…
Hearts and Minds
Your girls that you all love are mine already”
Polygamy, often unmentioned or glossed over by critics, is central to Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1897). Representations of law in relation to the polygamy threat borne by vampires connect the novel to contemporary legal and popular debates about the perceived threat Mormonism posed to patriarchal power within empire and home. Stoker’s treatment of polygamy places the novel within the contemporary contextual canon of anti-polygamy and anti-Mormon nove…
Desperately Seeking Daddy
Current Canadian law, by silence rather than explicit choice, does not prevent anonymous sperm donation. Anonymous sperm donation, however, may soon disappear. In the recent Pratten decision, the Supreme Court of British Columbia determined that anonymity violates the constitutional rights of children born of Assisted Reproductive Technologies (ARTs). While finding that children should have access to genetic knowledge, the court failed to conside…
A House is not a Home
HIV-positive mothers living in Toronto, ON, face myriad economic and social challenges that put them at risk for housing instability and homelessness. These challenges are exacerbated for mothers from African and Caribbean communities as they navigate a web of shelter, housing, health care and social care systems that do not adequately address their social positioning as HIV-positive and racialized mothers. To date, there is a dearth of research …
The Psychological and Health Consequences of Caring for a Spouse With Dementia
Caring for someone with dementia can be demanding, particularly for spouses living with the care recipient. The main goal of this study was to clarify differences in the experience of caregivers who were husbands and wives with respect to burden, health, healthy behaviors, presence of difficult care recipient behaviors, social supports, and the quality of the premorbid relationship. The results of this study support research demonstrating a diffe…
Not Just “A Roof over Your Head”
The literature has identified housing as a fundamental unmet need for people living with HIV; yet there has been little qualitative evidence exploring housing and HIV, particularly from a Canadian context. This paper focuses on our qualitative analyses of the housing experiences of 48 HIV-positive people living in Ontario. Findings from our interviews illustrate healthy housing as a dynamic interconnection between health, housing and other social…
Prejudice Unveiled
The public use of the niqab and other religious face coverings is a source of considerable debate in Western nations. The veiled Muslim woman is often constructed as “other,” reviled as backward, represented as in need of rescue, or associated with Islamic extremism. Despite widespread racist attitudes, officially, Canadians purport to support multiculturalism and the equality of all people under the law as guaranteed under section 15 of the Char…
Stigma, HIV and health
Examining the associations between HIV-related stigma and health outcomes in people living with HIV/Aids
OBJECTIVE: To conduct a systematic review and series of meta-analyses on the association between HIV-related stigma and health among people living with HIV. DATA SOURCES: A structured search was conducted on 6 electronic databases for journal articles reporting associations between HIV-related stigma and health-related outcomes published between 1996 and 2013. STUDY ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA: Controlled studies, cohort studies, case-control studies an…
Asserting citizenship
Settler Colonialism, Indigenous Peoples and Food
This article looks at settler colonialism and the manufacturing of food insecurity in Indigenous communities located in present-day northern Canada after 1945. The federal government undermined the foodways of Indigenous peoples and sought to make them reliant on a southern market based food economy through the criminalization of Indigenous hunting and harvesting practices and the imposition of government programs like Family Allowance, Foodmail,…
Battered Women under Duress
The case of R. v Ryan presented the Supreme Court of Canada with a novel question: may a wife, whose life is threatened by her abusive husband, rely on the defence of duress when she tries to have him murdered? In this article, we argue that by answering this novel question in the negative, the Court missed an opportunity to clarify the nature and scope of the defence of duress in the context of battered and abused women in a principled manner an…
A Missed Opportunity
On July 13, 2013, the Commission for Public Complaints released the Report Following a Public Interest Investigation into the Conduct of RCMP Members in Nova Scotia in Respect to Matters Involving Nicole (Ryan) Doucet . After interviewing all parties involved and reviewing 25 incidences involving Ms. Doucet and Mr. Ryan, the Acting Commissioner, Ian McPhail, concluded the RCMP’s policy regarding violence in relationships “was followed at all time…
Jordan's Principle
Jordan's PrincipleThe Struggle to Access On-Reserve Health Care for High-Needs Indigenous Children in Canada Lori Chambers (bio) and Kristin Burnett (bio) Beginning in the late 1950s, the federal and provincial governments of Canada introduced legislation intended to provide hospital and insured medical services for all Canadians. With the passage of the Medical Care Act in 1966 these services were extended to include all hospital care and medica…
Decolonizing Scoping Review Methodologies for Literature With, for, and by Indigenous Peoples and the African Diaspora
This article summarizes our deepened understanding of decolonizing research with, for, and by Indigenous peoples and peoples of African descent that emerged from conducting a scoping review of the methodological literature and reflecting on our review process. Although our review identified decolonizing methodologies as a promising approach, we questioned if our scoping review process engaged in decolonizing knowing. To unpack the epistemological…
Images of Marie Curie
Marie Curie holds iconic status both within the scientific community and in the wider cultural imagination and collective memory. The first woman to be awarded a Nobel Prize and the only woman to achieve such an honor twice, Curie is widely celebrated as a female pioneer in the sciences and is held up as a model for all, but particularly women, to emulate. She is revered not only as a ground-breaking scientist, but also as a devoted wife and moth…
Sexual violence
Physical and mental health inequalities among aging lesbian, gay, and bisexual Canadians
Moving Towards an Indigenous Research Process
Moving towards reconciliation within Indigenous research requires the careful examination of existing practices at all stages of the research process. Engagement in and dissemination of reflexive processes may increase the relevance of research results for Indigenous communities and partners. This article describes and contextualizes the results obtained from this qualitative research study examining parenting needs and child reunification in the…
Development and Implementation of Peer Leader Training for Community-Based Participatory Sexual Health Research
The SSSH peer research training program was effective. Peer leaders demonstrated effectiveness in liaising with partner agencies, engaging South Asian women in sexual health discussion, completing CBPR activities and team building. Knowledge generated can be applied in CBPR with other racialized women populations
Understanding the Landscape of Substance Use Management Practices in Domestic Violence Shelters across Ontario
J oan S angster . One Hundred Years of Struggle
One Hundred Years of Struggle: The History of Women and the Vote in Canada is the first in what will be a series of seven books examining women’s struggles and victories in pursuit of political equality in Canada. It is an excellent introduction to the series. Joan Sangster has the difficult task of providing an overview of the diversity of suffragists’ goals, strategies, victories, and setbacks as they varied over time, place, and the social loc…
Political science (27 works) · Sociology (24 works) · Law (18 works) · Medicine (17 works) · Psychology (16 works) · Intimate Partner and Family Violence (10 works) · History (9 works) · Law (9 works) · Social Psychology (9 works) · Criminology (8 works)