Alexa Dodge
Dr. Alexa Dodge
Assistant Professor
Email: alexa.dodge@smu.ca
Personal Profile
- PhD, Legal Studies, Carleton University
- MA, Legal Studies, Carleton University
- BA (Honours), Contemporary Studies, University of King’s College
Dr. Dodge is a critical criminologist and socio-legal scholar with research and teaching interests in the areas of digital criminology, technology-facilitated violence, sexual violence, feminist criminology, criminal law, and restorative justice. Dr. Dodge has worked on research projects on the following topics:
- Criminal law responses to nonconsensual intimate image distribution
- Policing sexual violence online and in the community
- Young people’s perspectives on technology-facilitated violence and safety
- Digital evidence in cases of sexual violence
- Informal and restorative responses to technology-facilitated violence and bullying
- Supports for victims of technology-facilitated sexual violence
- Restorative justice in cases involving multiple legal proceedings
Current Research Projects
Principal Investigator (with Mendes, Dietzel, Kehler, & Dunn), Technology-Facilitated Gender Based Violence among Young People: Synthesizing the Research to Promote Digital Safety in Canada. Funder: SSHRC Knowledge Synthesis Grant.
Co-Investigator (with Mendes, Dietzel, Kehler, & Dunn), Combating Technology Facilitated Sexual Violence: Supporting Young People in Schools, Social Relationships, and on Social Media. Funder: SSHRC Insight Grant.
Associate Researcher (with Blais [PI] & Dunn), Identifying the Prevalence and Impact of Technology-Facilitated Sexual Violence with a Focus on Access to Services. Funder: Research Nova Scotia.
Associate with the Restorative Research, Innovation, & Education Lab (Schulich School of Law), Restorative Approaches to Multiple Proceedings Project. Funder: Justice Partnership and Innovation Program.
PUBLICATIONS
Refereed Journal Articles
2024 Dodge. Misunderstandings & Intentional Misrepresentations: The Continued Framing of Consensual & Nonconsensual Intimate Image Distribution as Child Pornography. Canadian Journal of Law & Society. Online First:
2024 Dodge. The Problem with “Cyber Safety”: Calling for Technosocial Educational Responses to Technology-Facilitated Violence & Bullying. Canadian Journal of Communication, 49(1), 125-145.
2023 Dodge. Looking Beyond the Law to Respond to Technology-Facilitated Violence and Bullying: Lessons Learned from Nova Scotia’s CyberScan Unit. Crime, Media, Culture. Online First.
2022 Dodge and Lockhart. “Young People Just Resolve it in Their Own Group”: Young People’s Perspectives on Responses to Nonconsensual Intimate Image Distribution. Youth Justice. 22(3): 304-319.
2021 Dodge. “Try Not to be Embarrassed”: A Sex Positive Analysis of Nonconsensual Pornography Case Law. Feminist Legal Studies. 29(1): 23-41.
2021 Dodge. Trading Nudes like Hockey Cards: Exploring the Diversity of “Revenge Porn” Cases Responded to in Law. Social & Legal Studies, 30(3): 448-468.
2021 Spencer, Ricciardelli, and Dodge. “Society Wants to See a True Victim”: Police Interpretations of Victims of Sexual Violence. Feminist Criminology, 16(2): 216-235.
2019 Dodge. Nudes Are Forever: Legal Interpretations of Digital Technology’s Impact on “Revenge Porn”. Canadian Journal of Law & Society, 34(1): 121-143.
2019 Dodge, Spencer, Ricciardelli, and Ballucci. “This Isn’t Your Father’s Police Force”: Digital Evidence in Sexual Assault Investigations. Australian & New Zealand Journal of Criminology, 52(4): 499-515.
2018 Dodge. The Digital Witness: The Role of Digital Evidence in Criminal Justice Responses to Sexual Violence. Feminist Theory, 19(3): 303-321.
2018 Dodge and Spencer. Online Sexual Violence, Child Pornography or Something Else Entirely?: Police Responses to Non-Consensual Intimate Image Sharing Among Youth. Social & Legal Studies, 27(5): 636-657.
2018 Spencer, Dodge, Ricciardelli, and Ballucci. “I Think It’s Re-Victimizing Victims Almost Every Time”: Police Perceptions of Criminal Justice Responses to Sexual Violence. Critical Criminology, 26(2): 189 209.
2016 Dodge. Digitizing Rape Culture: Online Sexual Violence and the Power of the Digital Photograph. Crime, Media, Culture, 12(1): 65-82.
Book Chapters & Book Reviews
2021 Dodge. Restorative Responses to the Rhizomatic Harm of Nonconsensual Pornography. In: Powell et al. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Gendered Violence and Technology. Palgrave.
2021 Spencer, Dodge, and Ricciardelli. Emotional Labour, Police, and the Investigation of Sex Crimes Perpetrated Against Children: Posttraumatic Stress and the Toll of Dirty Work. In: Ricciardelli et al. (eds) Handbook of Posttraumatic Stress. Routledge.
2015 Dodge. Book Review: David Gurnham’s Crime, Desire and Law’s Unconscious. Social & Legal Studies, 24(2): 324-328.
Reports
2023 Dietzel, Kalwani, Samardzic, Dodge, Dunn, and Mendes. Technology-Facilitated Sexual Violence in Canadian Educational Curricula and Policies. Ottawa: Sex Information and Education Council of Canada.
2023 Dodge, Dietzel, Dunn, Mendes, and MacCallum. Technology-Facilitated Gender-Based Violence Among Young People: Synthesizing the Research to Promote Digital Safety in Canada. Ottawa: SSHRC & WAGE.
2021 Dodge. Deleting Digital Harm: A Review of Nova Scotia’s CyberScan Unit. Halifax: Dalhousie University. Report.
2016 Spencer, Ricciardelli, Dodge, Grace, and Ballucci. Police Responses to Online and Offline Sexual Violence and Harassment in Canada: Challenges, Needs, and Experiences. Ottawa: Government of Ontario. Report.
Course Listing (2022-3)
- Qualitative Research Methods
- Digital Criminology