Research Center on Violence at WVU

05/08/2026

Next week, Center Director will present two papers at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Justice Studies Conference at the University of Winnipeg. It will be a great event.

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The CIJS

05/02/2026

For those interested in the issue of violence against women in professional sports-related contexts, please watch Center Director Dr. Walter DeKeseredy's interview (along with other experts who were interviewed) on this CBC Saskatchewan radio show.

1 like. "Athletes and violence against women: are the Riders an outlier?"

04/28/2026

Center Director Walter DeKeseredy's thoughts on the Shreveport mass shooting are featured in today's USA Today newspaper.

Shreveport asks for a focus on domestic violence. But some Americans, according to experts, will look away, partly to protect their own mental health.

04/27/2026

Center Director Dr. Walter DeKeseredy will be on CBC Saskatchewan Radio's Blue Sky show today at 1:50 pm CT to discuss the Saskatchewan Rough Riders' termination of Ajou Ajou who engaged in sexually abusive behavior during a Grey Cup celebration. Below is a link:

This is Saskatchewan’s group chat. It's your soft landing for the hard conversations. If you’re talking about it, we are too.

04/23/2026

For those interested in in contemporary issues about sports and violence against women, Center Director will be on CBC Radio’s Blue Sky show on Monday afternoon at 11:50 CT to discuss the Saskatchewan Roughriders’ progressive response to an abusive player.

The team's decision will likely give future whistleblowers confidence to come forward like the women who spoke out against the receiver's behaviour, advocates say.

04/12/2026

For people interested in key issued in wrongful conviction, please read Center Director Dr. Walter DeKeseredy's new review of Dr. Kimberly Cook's book Shattered Justice: Crime Victims' Experiences with Wrongful Convictions. It appears in the official newsletter of the American Society of Criminology's Division on Feminist Criminology. The link is below.

https://groups.io/g/ascdfc/sattachment/1085227675469926558/264688751/0/8bcfb15bd41bc70d1566babd27ac18ae8e33fa785af4d5679d184a3075ee8739

04/07/2026

Published by University of Toronto Press, Center Director Dr. Walter DeKeseredy's new co-authored book is now available.

03/28/2026

Dr. Kim Dube and Center Director Dr. Walter DeKeseredy co-edited a special issue of the journal Violence Against Women titled "Violence Against Women in Sports-Related Contexts." The online versions of the contributions are now available at the journal's website and below is a link to our Editors' Introduction.

As noted in this Guest Editors' Introduction, there was a vibrant surge in the 1980s and 1990s of scholarly work on violence against women (VAW) in sports-...

03/28/2026

Center Director Dr. Walter DeKeseredy's new article "Woman Abuse in Hockey-Related Contexts: The Current State of Social Scientific Knowledge" has just been published in the journal Violence Against

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/10778012261425953

03/23/2026

The paperback version of Center Director Dr. Walter DeKeseredy’s new co-authored book just came out.