Janice Du Mont
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 198166 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Janice Du Mont |
| PRENOMES | Janice |
| SOBRENOME | Du Mont |
| ASSINATURA | DU MONT J |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Toronto |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4851-1104 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 34 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 151 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 34 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2000 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
“It can go either way”
Background Access to healthcare is essential for individuals who have been sex trafficked, as they often face a range of physical, mental, and sexual health challenges. However, providers frequently lack awareness of trafficking indicators, skills in trauma- and violence-informed care, and knowledge of how to create culturally sensitive, stigma-free environments. Additionally, providers' identities, such as gender, race, culture, and profession, …
Challenges to Supporting Domestically Sex Trafficked Persons
Domestic sex trafficking is an emergent area of study with problematic gaps in our understanding of the challenges that inhibit client recovery. As social service providers are often on the frontlines of care provision, in this study, we explored the challenges they experienced when serving domestically sex trafficked adolescents and adults. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 15 providers in Ontario, Canada’s largest province, and the…
The mental health of staff at violence against women organizations during the Covid-19 pandemic
VAW organizations require increased resources and flexible funding to hire and retain more staff to respond to higher and more complex caseloads during public health emergencies. With more structural supports in place, VAW organizations could create more time and space to develop their trauma-informed organizational practices: for example, establishing a culture of connection and learning among staff virtually and in-person and facilitating a ran…
Social service providers' knowledge of domestic sex trafficking in the Canadian context
Canadian research on the domestic sex trafficking of adolescents and adults is in its infancy with little exploration of social service providers' knowledge. This is an important gap as international research has identified that providers are well situated yet often lack the knowledge necessary to identify and help sex trafficked persons. The current study used a critical social approach to examine social service providers' knowledge about domest…
Sex Trafficking of Women and Girls in Canada
Sex trafficking has been identified as a prominant health and human rights concern in Canada. However, there has been little empirical research on the topic and existing studies are largely found within the grey literature. This review sought to identify and summarize the current scholarly literature about sex trafficking of women and girls in Canada. We identified empirical studies using a keyword search in ProQuest, Web of Science, and Scopus. …
Identification of Domestically Sex Trafficked Persons in Social Service Settings in Canada
Social service providers are critical in supporting domestically sex trafficked persons. However, little is known about how these providers identify sex trafficked persons. This study aimed to explore this vital but poorly understood first step to addressing sex trafficked clients’ needs, asking: How do social service providers in Ontario, Canada identify domestically sex trafficked adolescents and adults? Fifteen semi-structured interviews were …
Coming out of the closet about sexual assault
Intersectional inequalities in younger women’s experiences of physical intimate partner violence across communities in Bangladesh
Using intersectionality theory made visible the IPV precarity of younger, lower educated or poor women across communities. Future research might examine the structures and processes that put them at these precarious locations to ameliorate their socio-economic-educational inequalities and reduce IPV in all communities. For testing hypotheses using intersectionality theory, this study might advance scholarship on physical IPV in Bangladesh and qua…
Life irrupted
University-based sexual assault has been described as an epidemic. An emerging body of research suggests that sexual assault that occurs during university may have consequences for women’s occupational lives; however, an in-depth understanding of these consequences does not currently exist. Given the significance that the university period holds for individuals’ life trajectories, this lack of understanding represents an important gap in knowledg…
Intersectional community correlates of married women’s experiences of male intimate partner physical violence in Bangladesh
Background In Bangladesh, little is known about community-level factors shaping married women’s experiences of male intimate partner physical violence (MIPPV); it is also unknown if these factors interact with each other. We examined the (1) association between four residential community characteristics defined by the attributes of ever married women in those communities–younger age, lower education, higher participation in earning an income and …
The Aftermath and the Aftermyth
There is an abundance of research on the health consequences of sexual assault during university, but less attention has been paid to how sexual assault also shapes women's everyday lives. To develop an understanding of the everyday aftermath of sexual assault, we used narrative inquiry to analyze how women textually represent everyday living after sexual assault during university within four memoirs. Memoirists discussed their lives as significa…
Currently married women’s present experiences of male intimate partner physical violence in Bangladesh
In Bangladesh, one in five currently married women (CMW) presently experience male intimate partner physical violence (MIPPV). While previous studies analysed women's individual-level multiple locations-younger age, lower education, income, and poverty in an additive manner, we took an intersectional approach to look at the effects of their multiple intersectional locations on MIPPV. Using McCall's intercategorical intersectional approach, we exa…
Applying an occupational perspective to women’s experiences of life after sexual assault
“To This Day She Continues to Struggle with the Terror Imposed upon Her”
This study locates the victim impact statements of raped women in the sociolegal context of significant sentencing law reforms introduced in Canada to address an ascendant victim’s rights movement. We examine 38 reported sentencing decisions in sexual assault cases in Ontario, Canada (1999–2010). Our objectives are to discern (a) whether the archetype of the ideal victim continues to influence juridical discourse after conviction and (b) what nar…
Responding to Delayed Disclosure of Sexual Assault in Health Settings
Few adolescent and adult women seek out formal support services in the acute period (7 days or less) following a sexual assault. Instead, many women choose to disclose weeks, months, or even years later. This delayed disclosure may be challenging to support workers, including those in health-care settings, who lack the knowledge and skills to respond effectively. We conducted a systematic literature review of health-care providers’ responses to d…
Experiences of child protection workers in collaborating with adult mental health providers
Perceived discrimination and self-rated health in Canada
Our main findings indicate that perceived discrimination based on physical appearance and disability may have an adverse impact on health. The results highlight the need for a comprehensive approach to improving health outcomes that should include policies that are targeted against specific types of discrimination
An Examination of Victim, Assailant, and Assault Characteristics among Cases Classified as Predatory Drug-Facilitated Sexual Assault
Intimate partner violence among women with mental health-related activity limitations
Findings suggest that women with mental health-related ALs may be at increased risk of IPV. Health and social service providers may need, therefore, to better target prevention and intervention initiatives to this population
Barriers to the Effective Use of Medico-Legal Findings in Sexual Assault Cases Worldwide
Despite the increasing implementation of standardized rape kits across jurisdictions, the medico-legal findings generated by these tools are often not related to positive criminal justice outcomes. Given that there has been no global investigation of the factors that might impede their successful use in cases of sexual assault, we conducted a review of relevant scholarly and "grey" literature from industrialized and less-developed regions. One ke…
Help-Seeking Behavior for Intimate Partner Violence among Racial Minority Women in Canada
Visualizing sexual assault
Investigating the medical forensic examination from the perspectives of sexually assaulted women
Symbolic Power and the Institutional Response to Rape
Dans plusieurs juridictions, la réponse médicolégal au viol est axée sur l'utilisation d'une des versions de ce qu'on appelle communément une « trousse de prélèvement dans les cas de viol ». De telles trousses sont utilisées par des professionnels de la santé dans le but de recueillir des preuves corroborantes sur le corps des femmes victimes d'agression sexuelle. L'usage de cette trousse se fonde sur l'hypothèse qu'elle peut conduire à la produc…
Who Is Most at Risk for Intimate Partner Violence?
Whole population studies on intimate partner violence (IPV) have given contradictory information about prevalence and risk factors, especially concerning gender. The authors examined the 1999 Canadian General Social Survey data for gender patterns of physical, sexual, emotional, or financial IPV from a current or ex-partner. More women (8.6%) than men (7.0%, p = .001) reported partner physical abuse in general, physical IPV causing physical injur…
The Role of “Real Rape” and “Real Victim” Stereotypes in the Police Reporting Practices of Sexually Assaulted Women
Some feminists have argued that rape myths constrain women’s reporting of sexual assault to the police. The authors investigated whether myth-associated characteristics of sexual assaults play a role in police reporting behaviors of women. A sample of 186 sexual assault cases seen at a hospital-based sexual assault care center in 1994 was analyzed using logistic regression. A positive association was found between reporting a sexual assault to th…
Visualizing sexual assault
Investigating the medical forensic examination from the perspectives of sexually assaulted women
So Few Convictions
This study examines the role of client-related characteristics in the legal processing of sexual assaults. Data were collected from the hospital and legal records of 187 women who presented to a sexual assault treatment center and the police of a large Canadian city in 1994. The data analyses revealed that cases involving older women and women who did not physically resist the assailant were less likely to have resulted in a charge. However, wome…
The Association Between Length of Stay in Canada and Intimate Partner Violence Among Immigrant Women
Objective. We examined the prevalence of intimate partner violence (IPV) among recent (0–9 years) and nonrecent (≥ 10 years) immigrant women in Canada to determine whether differences in IPV were associated with length of stay in Canada. Methods. We analyzed data from the 1999 General Social Survey, a national cross-sectional telephone survey. We used weighted logistic regression analysis to examine the effect of length of stay in Canada on IPV a…
Coming out of the closet about sexual assault
Intimate Partner Violence and Health
Symbolic Power and the Institutional Response to Rape
Dans plusieurs juridictions, la réponse médicolégal au viol est axée sur l'utilisation d'une des versions de ce qu'on appelle communément une « trousse de prélèvement dans les cas de viol ». De telles trousses sont utilisées par des professionnels de la santé dans le but de recueillir des preuves corroborantes sur le corps des femmes victimes d'agression sexuelle. L'usage de cette trousse se fonde sur l'hypothèse qu'elle peut conduire à la produc…
Intimate partner violence among Canadian women with activity limitations
Objective: To determine the prevalence of intimate partner violence (IPV) in the previous five years among women reporting activity limitations (AL). Design and setting: A community based, representative telephone survey of Canadians aged 15 and over. AL was assessed by the question: “Does a long term physical or mental condition or health problem reduce the amount or the kind of activity that you can do at home, at school, at work or in other ac…
The Aftermath and the Aftermyth
There is an abundance of research on the health consequences of sexual assault during university, but less attention has been paid to how sexual assault also shapes women's everyday lives. To develop an understanding of the everyday aftermath of sexual assault, we used narrative inquiry to analyze how women textually represent everyday living after sexual assault during university within four memoirs. Memoirists discussed their lives as significa…
Experiences of child protection workers in collaborating with adult mental health providers
Intersectional community correlates of married women’s experiences of male intimate partner physical violence in Bangladesh
Background In Bangladesh, little is known about community-level factors shaping married women’s experiences of male intimate partner physical violence (MIPPV); it is also unknown if these factors interact with each other. We examined the (1) association between four residential community characteristics defined by the attributes of ever married women in those communities–younger age, lower education, higher participation in earning an income and …
Barriers to the Effective Use of Medico-Legal Findings in Sexual Assault Cases Worldwide
Despite the increasing implementation of standardized rape kits across jurisdictions, the medico-legal findings generated by these tools are often not related to positive criminal justice outcomes. Given that there has been no global investigation of the factors that might impede their successful use in cases of sexual assault, we conducted a review of relevant scholarly and "grey" literature from industrialized and less-developed regions. One ke…
Cooperation or Co-Optation
In this article, the authors highlight some benefits of and barriers to doing qualitative research in association with hospital-based services. They first describe an ongoing qualitative research project that involves interviewing women about their post-sexual assault medicolegal experiences in hospital-situated sexual assault centers across a large Canadian province. Their methodological journey led them to engage program coordinators at these c…
So Few Convictions
This study examines the role of client-related characteristics in the legal processing of sexual assaults. Data were collected from the hospital and legal records of 187 women who presented to a sexual assault treatment center and the police of a large Canadian city in 1994. The data analyses revealed that cases involving older women and women who did not physically resist the assailant were less likely to have resulted in a charge. However, wome…
Examining the Standardized Application of Rape Kits
In this exploratory study we examine the practices surrounding with respect to standardization the administration and processing of the Sexual Assault Evidence Kit (SAEK). Despite the presumed scientific objectivity of this protocol, our survey of sexual assault nurses, physicians, police, and forensic scientists found that discretionary practices pervaded the evidentiary process. We argue that there must be greater awareness of the shaping of me…
The Role of “Real Rape” and “Real Victim” Stereotypes in the Police Reporting Practices of Sexually Assaulted Women
Some feminists have argued that rape myths constrain women’s reporting of sexual assault to the police. The authors investigated whether myth-associated characteristics of sexual assaults play a role in police reporting behaviors of women. A sample of 186 sexual assault cases seen at a hospital-based sexual assault care center in 1994 was analyzed using logistic regression. A positive association was found between reporting a sexual assault to th…
Intimate Partner Violence and Health
Intimate partner violence among Canadian women with activity limitations
Objective: To determine the prevalence of intimate partner violence (IPV) in the previous five years among women reporting activity limitations (AL). Design and setting: A community based, representative telephone survey of Canadians aged 15 and over. AL was assessed by the question: “Does a long term physical or mental condition or health problem reduce the amount or the kind of activity that you can do at home, at school, at work or in other ac…
Cooperation or Co-Optation
In this article, the authors highlight some benefits of and barriers to doing qualitative research in association with hospital-based services. They first describe an ongoing qualitative research project that involves interviewing women about their post-sexual assault medicolegal experiences in hospital-situated sexual assault centers across a large Canadian province. Their methodological journey led them to engage program coordinators at these c…
Help-Seeking Rates for Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) Among Canadian Immigrant Women
We examined rates of help seeking for intimate partner violence (IPV) among recent (0-9 years in Canada) and non-recent (10+ years in Canada) immigrant women. Data from a national, cross-sectional, telephone survey were used. Help-seeking variables included disclosure of IPV, reporting IPV to police, use of social services subsequent to IPV, and barriers to social service use. Recent immigrant women, compared with non-recent immigrant women, were…
The Association Between Length of Stay in Canada and Intimate Partner Violence Among Immigrant Women
Objective. We examined the prevalence of intimate partner violence (IPV) among recent (0–9 years) and nonrecent (≥ 10 years) immigrant women in Canada to determine whether differences in IPV were associated with length of stay in Canada. Methods. We analyzed data from the 1999 General Social Survey, a national cross-sectional telephone survey. We used weighted logistic regression analysis to examine the effect of length of stay in Canada on IPV a…
Who Is Most at Risk for Intimate Partner Violence?
Whole population studies on intimate partner violence (IPV) have given contradictory information about prevalence and risk factors, especially concerning gender. The authors examined the 1999 Canadian General Social Survey data for gender patterns of physical, sexual, emotional, or financial IPV from a current or ex-partner. More women (8.6%) than men (7.0%, p = .001) reported partner physical abuse in general, physical IPV causing physical injur…
Social Workers' Perspectives on the Victim Impact Statements in Cases of Sexual Assault in Canada
The victim impact statement (VIS) is a written account of the physical, psychological, and economic harms experienced by a victim as a result of crime. This paper describes a qualitative study conducted in Ontario, Canada with 15 hospital-based sexual assault care and treatment centre social workers (SWs) who had supported victims through the process of producing a VIS for criminal court. It was found that while SWs' formal knowledge of VIS legis…
Symbolic Power and the Institutional Response to Rape
Dans plusieurs juridictions, la réponse médicolégal au viol est axée sur l'utilisation d'une des versions de ce qu'on appelle communément une « trousse de prélèvement dans les cas de viol ». De telles trousses sont utilisées par des professionnels de la santé dans le but de recueillir des preuves corroborantes sur le corps des femmes victimes d'agression sexuelle. L'usage de cette trousse se fonde sur l'hypothèse qu'elle peut conduire à la produc…
Help-Seeking Behavior for Intimate Partner Violence among Racial Minority Women in Canada
Visualizing sexual assault
Investigating the medical forensic examination from the perspectives of sexually assaulted women
Barriers to the Effective Use of Medico-Legal Findings in Sexual Assault Cases Worldwide
Despite the increasing implementation of standardized rape kits across jurisdictions, the medico-legal findings generated by these tools are often not related to positive criminal justice outcomes. Given that there has been no global investigation of the factors that might impede their successful use in cases of sexual assault, we conducted a review of relevant scholarly and "grey" literature from industrialized and less-developed regions. One ke…
Intimate partner violence among women with mental health-related activity limitations
Findings suggest that women with mental health-related ALs may be at increased risk of IPV. Health and social service providers may need, therefore, to better target prevention and intervention initiatives to this population
Perceived discrimination and self-rated health in Canada
Our main findings indicate that perceived discrimination based on physical appearance and disability may have an adverse impact on health. The results highlight the need for a comprehensive approach to improving health outcomes that should include policies that are targeted against specific types of discrimination
An Examination of Victim, Assailant, and Assault Characteristics among Cases Classified as Predatory Drug-Facilitated Sexual Assault
“To This Day She Continues to Struggle with the Terror Imposed upon Her”
This study locates the victim impact statements of raped women in the sociolegal context of significant sentencing law reforms introduced in Canada to address an ascendant victim’s rights movement. We examine 38 reported sentencing decisions in sexual assault cases in Ontario, Canada (1999–2010). Our objectives are to discern (a) whether the archetype of the ideal victim continues to influence juridical discourse after conviction and (b) what nar…
Responding to Delayed Disclosure of Sexual Assault in Health Settings
Few adolescent and adult women seek out formal support services in the acute period (7 days or less) following a sexual assault. Instead, many women choose to disclose weeks, months, or even years later. This delayed disclosure may be challenging to support workers, including those in health-care settings, who lack the knowledge and skills to respond effectively. We conducted a systematic literature review of health-care providers’ responses to d…
Experiences of child protection workers in collaborating with adult mental health providers
Currently married women’s present experiences of male intimate partner physical violence in Bangladesh
In Bangladesh, one in five currently married women (CMW) presently experience male intimate partner physical violence (MIPPV). While previous studies analysed women's individual-level multiple locations-younger age, lower education, income, and poverty in an additive manner, we took an intersectional approach to look at the effects of their multiple intersectional locations on MIPPV. Using McCall's intercategorical intersectional approach, we exa…
Applying an occupational perspective to women’s experiences of life after sexual assault
Life irrupted
University-based sexual assault has been described as an epidemic. An emerging body of research suggests that sexual assault that occurs during university may have consequences for women’s occupational lives; however, an in-depth understanding of these consequences does not currently exist. Given the significance that the university period holds for individuals’ life trajectories, this lack of understanding represents an important gap in knowledg…
Intersectional community correlates of married women’s experiences of male intimate partner physical violence in Bangladesh
Background In Bangladesh, little is known about community-level factors shaping married women’s experiences of male intimate partner physical violence (MIPPV); it is also unknown if these factors interact with each other. We examined the (1) association between four residential community characteristics defined by the attributes of ever married women in those communities–younger age, lower education, higher participation in earning an income and …
Medicine (30 obras) · Poison control (24 obras) · Psychology (24 obras) · Suicide prevention (23 obras) · Political science (19 obras) · Sexual Assault and Victimization Studies (19 obras) · Intimate Partner and Family Violence (15 obras) · Psychiatry (14 obras) · Criminology (13 obras) · Sociology (13 obras)