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PhD
Criminology
and
Socio-Legal
Studies
(University
of
Toronto)
MA
Criminology
and
Socio-Legal
Studies
(University
of
Toronto)
BA
(London
School
of
Economics)
Research, Teaching and Supervision Areas
- Violence against Women
- Feminist Legal Theory
- Post-Colonial Feminist & Critical Race Theory
- Criminology & Sociolegal Studies
- Specialized Courts
- Sex Work
Current Research
- My primary project is a 5 year, SSHRC Insight grant funded comparative study on the governance of sex work in the United States and Canada. The project examines specialized prostitution and human trafficking courts in multiple American cities and anti-trafficking movements in Southern Ontario with a specific focus on the role of the voluntary sector in both contexts. Dr. Marcia Oliver (Wilfred Laurier University) is a co-investigator on the project.
- My second project, funded by a SSHRC Partnership Engage Grant, examines the impact of COVID-19 related disruptions on Toronto’s specialized domestic violence courts and the delivery of court-mandated, Partner Abuse Response (PAR) services to men convicted of domestic violence offences. The study in being conducted in collaboration with Counterpoint Counselling and Educational Cooperative, a grassroots feminist anti-violence organization located in Toronto. Dr. Andrea Quinlan is a co-investigator on the project.
Research Grants
2020: SSHRC Insight Grant (Principal Investigator)Project Title: “The Role of the Penal Voluntary Sector in the Governance of the Sex Trade: A Comparative Study” Funds: $89,227
2020: SSHRC Partnership Engage Grant (Principal Investigator) Project Title: “A Partnership to Evaluate the Impact of COVID-19 on Criminal Justice and Community Responses to Domestic Violence” Funds: $24,912
2017:
Insight
Development
Grant
UW/SSHRC
Research
Incentive
Fund
(Principal
Investigator)
Project
Title:
“Penal
Welfarism
and
the
Production
of
Market
Citizens
in
Specialized
Prostitution
Courts”
Funds:
$10,000
2016:
University
of
Waterloo
Gender
Equity
Grant
(Co-investigator)
Project
Title:
“Health
Condition
Disclosure
Among
Pre-Tenure
Women:
What
is
and
isn’t
Reported
and
Why”
Funds:
$9,996
2015:
Ontario
Ministry
of
Community
Safety
and
Correctional
Services
(Co-investigator)
Project
Title:
“Sexual
Violence
on
Ontario
University
Campuses.”
Funds:
$236,220
2014:
SSHRC
Insight
Grant
(Co-investigator)Project
Title:
“Seeing
Crime:
Visual
Evidence,
Victims
&
Domestic
Violence”
Funds:
$177,254
2013:
UW/SSHRC
SEED
Grant
(Principal
Investigator)
Project
Title:
“Exploring
Criminal
Justice
and
Community
Partnerships:
Chicago’s
Specialized
Courts
for
Sex
Workers”
Funds:
$5500
Publications
Singh, Rashmee (forthcoming). “Shape Shifting: The Penal Voluntary Sector and the Governance of Domestic Violence. In eds, Derek Silva, Alex Luscombe & Kevin Walby, Private Influences, Privatization, and Criminal Justice in Canada. University of British Columbia Press.
Quinlan, Andrea & Singh Rashmee (2020). “COVID-19 and the Paradox of Visibility: Domestic Violence and Feminist Caring Labour in Canadian Shelters.” Vol, 46, No. 3, Feminist Studies, pp.572-582.
Singh, Rashmee & Moore, Dawn (2020). “Bare Death: Femicide, Forensics, and the Necropolitics of the Corpse.” In eds, Marie-Andree Jacobs and Anna Kirkland, Research Handbook on Socio-Legal Studies of Medicine and Health. Edward Elgar Publishing, pp. 287-302.
Sibley, Marcus A., Wohlbold, Elise, Moore, Dawn and Singh, Rashmee (2019). “How She Appears:” Demeanour, Cruel Optimism and the Relationship Between Police and Victims of Domestic Violence” in eds. George Pavlich and Matthew P. Unger, Entryways to Criminal Justice. University of Alberta Press.
Singh, Rashmee (2018). “‘Setting a Good Example for the Ladies:’ Example-Setting as a Technique of Penal Reform in Specialized Prostitution Court.” The British Journal of Criminology, 58 (3), 569-587.
Moore, Dawn and Singh, Rashmee (2018). “Seeing Crime, Feeling Crime: Visual Evidence and Emotions in the Prosecution of Domestic Violence.” Theoretical Criminology, 22(1), 116-132.
Singh, Rashmee (2017). “‘Please Check the Appropriate Box:’ Documents and the Governance of Domestic Violence.” 42 (2), Law and Social Inquiry, 509-542.
Singh, Rashmee. (2016) “Importing Feminisms: Racialized Migrants and Gender Violence in Toronto’s Diaspora.” Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State & Society, 23 (4), 508-530.
Singh, Rashmee (2016). “Domestic Violence and Mandatory Charging: Re-evaluating the Zero Tolerance Approach” in eds., Roberts and Grossman, Criminal Justice in Canada: A Reader.
Moore, Dawn and Singh, Rashmee (2015). “Seeing Crime: ANT, Feminism, and Images of Violence Against Women” in Dufresne and Robert (eds.), Actor Network Theory and Crime Studies: Explorations in Science and Technology. London: Ashgate, 67-81.
Singh, Rashmee (2012). “When Punishment and Philanthropy Mix: Voluntary Organizations and the Governance of the Domestic Violence Offender” Theoretical Criminology, 16(3), 269-287.
Singh, Rashmee (2010) “In Between the System and the Margins: Community Organizations, Mandatory Charging, and Immigrant Victims of Abuse” Canadian Journal of Sociology, 35 (1), 31-62.
Singh, Rashmee (2010) “Immigrant and Refugee Women and the Unintended Consequences of Domestic Violence Policy,” in ed. Kirsten Kramer, Criminology: Critical Canadian Perspectives. Toronto: Pearson Education Canada, 191-204.
Government Research Reports
Buss, Doris, Majury, Diana, Moore, Dawn, Rigakos, George, and Singh, Rashmee (2016). Reponses to Sexual Violence at Ontario University Campuses. Ontario Ministry of Community Safety and Correctional Services.
Wortly, Scot, Randy Seepersad, Rashmee Singh, Andrea McCalla, Carolyn Green, Natasha Madon, Nicole Myers, Carolyn Cotes-Lussier and Terry Roswell (2008). The Root Causes of Youth Violence: A review of Major Theoretical Perspectives. Ministry of the Attorney General, Government of Ontario.