Laleh Dadgardoust

Project Summary: As part of my role, I have been involved in multiple interdisciplinary research projects through the Living Skies Post-doctoral Fellow program. I have been involved in projects such as evaluating the Gang and Violence Reduction Strategy Program (GVRS) and collaborated in a grant application for Public Safety Canada titled Gladue Practices: Investigating Lived Experiences and Stakeholder Perspectives on Their Impacts on Reintegration and Recidivism. I have also been reviewing the literature in the area of patient-oriented risk assessment to examine the extent to which service providers practice collaborative risk assessment in forensic settings. And lastly, I have been reviewing the role trauma plays in sexual offending. Overall, the research I have been involved with aims to improve the practices in criminal justice system which leads to better reintegration of individuals convicted offences and improved public safety.

Internal Mentor: Dr. Mansfield Mela and Dr. Phillip Woods

External Mentors: Correctional Service Canada; and Research and Implementation Branch of the Ministry of Corrections, Policing and Public Safety