April 2018 Volume 24, Issue 4 Greetings! QUICK LINKS Welcome to the APRIL issue of the National Justice Visit our website to access Network e-Update, a publication of the Canadian our new live chat service. A Resource Centre for Victims of Crime. PLEASE SHARE trained CRCVC staff member THIS FREE NEWSLETTER WITH YOUR COLLEAGUES will be happy to help. OR HAVE THEM SIGN UP TO RECEIVE IT DIRECTLY AT: http://crcvc.ca/en/newsletter/. Swedish man found guilty of ‘online’ rape has convictions This newsletter was written and compiled with the upgraded. Read the whole assistance of Alanna Bent and Louriecar Cabanayan; story here. Victimology post graduate students at Algonquin College. ‘Missing a Voice’ – Victims, advocates urge Liberals to Want to print the newsletter? name new ombudsman. Find the full article here. Canadian Resource Centre for Victims of Crime Visit: http://www.crcvc.ca Mosque-shooting survivors Email: [email protected] urge judge not to be lenient Phone: 1.877.232.2610 with Bissonnette. Read about it here. TORONTO VAN ATTACK; TOXIC UPCOMING EVENTS MASCULINITY AND ISSUES OF IDENTITY AND RAGE THAT LEAD MEN TOWARDS Jackson Katz to speak at VIOLENCE Western University Come out for an evening with In the wake on the Toronto van attack on April 23rd, Jackson Katz speaking on where 8 women and 2 men were killed and 14 others “The Role of Educators and seriously injured, some media has attempted to Parents in Addressing address the issue of men’s violence against women. A Violence Against Women and writer from The Guardian, Gary Younge said, the Girls”. atrocity “gives us yet another chance to reflect on the When: May 30, 2018 from destructive capacity of masculinity – not least because 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm it may have been the principal motive for this attack. Where: Althouse, Faculty of Alek Minassian is not known to have any strong Education Auditorium, religious affiliations. But according to his Facebook University of Western Ontario, feed, he identified with devotees of “incel” (short for 1137 Western Road, London “involuntarily celibate”), which is for straight men who ON N6G 1G7 “can’t have sex despite wanting to” and splits the world into Stacys (attractive women who won’t sleep For more information and to with them) and Chads (men who are sexually register, click here. successful).” Walk a Mile in Her Shoes Minassian’s last Facebook post read: “The Incel Event Rebellion has already begun! We will overthrow all the When: May 11th, 2018 Chads and Stacys! All hail the Supreme Gentleman Where: 100 Street North Elliot Rodger!” Battleford, SK Click here to register or find In 2014, 22-year-old Rodger wrote a screed against, more information here. among other things, women and couples (particularly inter-racial couples), before killing seven people, Interpersonal Violence including himself, and injuring 14 in Isla Vista, Symposium California. “I don’t know why you girls aren’t attracted Join experts in the field of to me but I will punish you all for it,” Rodger stated in victims of violence for a 2-day a video uploaded before the rampage. “It’s an conference. injustice, a crime because … I’m the perfect guy and When: May 24th – May 25th, yet you throw yourselves at all these obnoxious men 2018 instead of me, the supreme gentleman.” Where: Montreal University Click here to register or find These men feel a deep sense of grievance. While most more information here. people avoid association with failure, these men are attracted to it. Their inadequacy is central both to 2018 International their identity and their rage. They are not the men Courthouse Dogs they want or need to be; they do not have the status Conference they feel was their birthright. This is the fault of others A 2-day conference all about and somebody, anybody, must therefore pay. professionally trained service dogs, and their handlers and While the desire to dominate and the embrace of many subjects in relation to failure may appear contradictory, they are in fact part them. of the same pathology. The rage stems from the fact When: September 27-28th that the very thing they feel entitled to – women’s Pre-Conference workshops on bodies, women’s lives, women’s obeisance – is not Wednesday, Sept. 26th available to them. They hate the thing they cannot Where: Hyatt Regency have. And of course they hate themselves for their Bellevue - 900 Bellevue Way inability to get it. NE, Bellevue, WA 98004 Younge also says, “If ever there was an illustration of how a system of patriarchy demeans and depletes us Registration will open mid- all, this is it. Unable to take advantage of the male May, and further details will privileges they believe they are owed, they feel become available on out inadequate and grow resentful, and a handful become Facebook Page as they get violent. Often awkward, shy and unconfident, they released. cannot meet the standards of machismo that patriarchy demands. They think feminism will destroy It’s Within Relationships them. But in fact it is their greatest chance of that I Will Heal: liberation, since the less women are forced to conform Supporting the journey of to preconceived notions of femininity, the more space kids and youth who have there is within masculinity for them to be themselves. experienced relational As such, they are not only the perpetrators of trauma misogyny but the products and, ultimately, the victims A webinar for anyone who has of it.” experienced childhood trauma from a trusted individual or Importantly, CBC radio also hosted a discussion with knows somebody who has. Francine Pelletier, a journalist and one of the When: May 23rd, 2018 prominent Quebec feminists whom Lepine had named Click here to register and for as one of his targets, and Julie Lalonde, a public more information. educator about women's rights, about society’s reluctance to talk about men’s violence against Victims and Survivors of women. Crime Week This year’s theme is While the trial process will no doubt shed more light “Transforming the Culture on the killer’s motives and ideology, we mourn the Together”. lives lost and will always remember: When: May 27th – June 2nd, 2018 Beutis Renuka Amarasingha, 45, of Toronto A federal symposium will be Andrea Bradden, 33, of Woodbridge held in the National Capital Geraldine Brady, 83, of Toronto Region on Monday, May 28, So He Chung, 22, of Toronto 2018. Register here. Anne Marie D’Amico, 30, of Toronto Mary Elizabeth Forsyth, 94, of Toronto International Justice and Ji Hun Kim, 22, was a student in Toronto Victims’ Rights Summer Dorothy Sewell, 80, of Toronto School Chul Min Kang, 45, of Toronto A bilingual course led by Munir Abdo Habib Najjar, 85, of Toronto several internationally renowned experts in the fields of criminology and law. A city and nation are coming together to stand in When: June 4th – June 9th, solidarity with the victims. Some have observed the 2018 city feels like a real community since the tragedy: Where: Université de united, caring, and strong. As Marcus Gee of the Globe Montréal and Mail remarked, “from the moment of the attack, Click here for more people began responding to this act of evil with acts of information, or here to good. They rushed onto the street to help the fallen. register. They raised money to help the victims and families. They gave blood. They made their way to Yonge 16th Asian Postgraduate Street to leave flowers at that instant memorial wall. Course on Victimology, One local man ran out to buy cardboard sheets and Victim Assistance and markers so visitors could leave messages, too. These Criminal Justice (APGC) gestures of love and goodwill are helping to wash When: June 4th – 14th, 2018 away the taint of that afternoon.” Where: City University of Hong Kong The Ontario Psychological Association has mobilized Deadline for registration is numerous psychologists in #Toronto to provide free or May 1st. Click here to register. low cost services to those affected by the recent attack. They will continue to update @ONThealth 16th International about available providers. Please contact Symposium of the World [email protected] for details. Society of Victimology Victims and Victimization: What’s Up Walk-In provides free mental health Moving Towards an counselling, with no appointment or health card International Victimology necessary: information on their six Toronto locations When: June 10th – 14th, 2018 can be found at whatsupwalkin.ca. Where: Hong Kong Deadline for early-bird Can you help? registration is March 31st. You can visit blood.ca to find the nearest clinic to Regular registration is from donate blood. Canadian Blood Services said it is April 1st to June 9th. Click here “closely monitoring the response effort in Toronto to to register. ensure patients affected by the collision receive blood and blood products as needed.” Both Sunnybrook Shelters of the Future: A hospital and North York General are treating victims. National Conversation Both hospitals take donations. Hosted by Women’s Shelters Canada, this will be a unique A fundraiser setup by Canada Zakat is partnering with opportunity for shelter and Toronto Foundation. This means that all funds raised transition house (TH) workers via this GoFundMe campaign will be transferred over to share and learn from their to #TorontoStrong Fund. Funds raised will be used peers. towards funeral expenses of the victims, as well as to When: June 13th – 15th, 2018 provide other support to the victims’ families, Where: Ottawa, Ontario survivors & first responders. Click here for more information or to register. Do you have information? The Toronto Police have created a hotline for North American Post witnesses or anyone with information to contact them Graduate Course on at 416-808-8750.