Rosemary Gartner
Biography:
ROSEMARY GARTNER is Professor Emerita at the University of Toronto's Centre for Criminology and Sociological Studies. Gartner’s research has examined comparative and historical patterns of violence, gender and intimate violence, the imprisonment of women, and relationships between legitimate and illegitimate violence.
Among many other research papers and reports, Gartner is the co-author of Understanding the Impact of Police Stops. In this 2017 report, Gartner and her co-author, Doob, concluded that “it is easy to exaggerate the usefulness of [police street checks], and hard to find data that supports the usefulness of continuing to carry them out.”
Gartner has a BA from the University of California, a MS, Sociology, from University of Wisconsin, and a PhD, Sociology, also from the University of Wisconsin.
Source: https://www.crimsl.utoronto.ca/people/directories/all-faculty/rosemary-gartner
Activities:
- 2018-03-22 – Walter Gordon Symposium — Making Policy Count: The Social Implications of Data-Driven Decision-Making