ID: CRS2025-PID060 15 May 2025

by Professor Amelie Couvrette, Professor Chloé Leclerc, Professor Catherine Arseneault

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

CRS 2025 Presentation by Prof. Amelie Couvrette, Prof. Chloé Leclerc and Prof. Catherine Arseneault (CRS2025-PID060)

Authors

Professor Amelie Couvrette

Professor, Université du Québec en Outaouais

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

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.

Professor Catherine Arseneault

Professor, Université de Montréal

Catherine Arseneault is an associate professor at the School of Criminology at the University of Montreal. She is interested in the transition to adult life, drug addiction, desistance from crime, adult and juvenile delinquency, the evaluation of intervention practices and programs. She has recently worked on the experience of relatives of people in the criminal justice system and on the specificity of drug-crime links among women. She is currently studying the supervision of community sentences for women.
She is a regular researcher at the International Centre for Comparative Criminology

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