CRS2025-PID060-Amélie Couvrette, Chloe Leclerc, and Catherine Arseneault

Navigating Community Supervision: Women's Perspectives on Its Role and Challenges

Authors

Professor Amelie Couvrette

Professor, Université du Québec en Outaouais, Canada

Amélie Couvrette is a professor in the Department of Psychoeducation and Psychology at the Université du Québec en Outaouais. Her research interests focus on the issues of marginalized, criminalized or incarcerated women and she has conducted several studies on the motherhood of marginalized women. She has recently focused on the importance of gender-sensitive approaches in prison and their implementation difficulties. She is currently studying the supervision of community sentences for women.
She is a regular researcher at the International Centre of Comparative Criminology.

Professor Chloé Leclerc

Professor, Université de Montréal, Canada

Chloé Leclerc is a Full Professor at the School of Criminology at the Université de Montréal, specializing in the judicial and penal systems. Her research has focused on plea bargaining negotiations, access to and costs of justice, the potential punitive shift in Canadian courts, and public perceptions of the judiciary. She is currently studying the supervision of community sentences for women.
She is the Director of the International Centre for Comparative Criminology, a research center that brings together more than 70 researchers from Quebec to explore criminological issues.

Catherine Arseneault

Professor, Université de Montréal, Canada

Catherine Arseneault is an Associate Professor at the School of Criminology at the Université de Montréal. Her research focuses on the relationship between drugs and crime, examining both the needs of individuals who engage in these behaviors and the services available to them. She has a particular interest in the experiences of women who use drugs and engage in delinquent, marginal, or deviant behaviors. Additionally, she explores the experiences of those who support individuals involved in crime, seeking to understand the challenges they face in providing care and assistance.

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