{"id":2764,"date":"2025-06-12T09:37:24","date_gmt":"2025-06-12T13:37:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fpga\/?post_type=cu_story&#038;p=2764"},"modified":"2025-07-28T14:18:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T18:18:07","slug":"emma-girvan","status":"publish","type":"cu_story","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fpga\/story\/emma-girvan\/","title":{"rendered":"Emma Girvan: Bachelor of Arts, Criminology"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-max  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n        \n        \n        \n            \n    <div class=\"cu-wideimage relative flex items-center justify-center mx-auto px-8 overflow-hidden md:px-16 rounded-xl not-prose  my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 bg-cu-black-50 pt-10 pb-12\" style=\"\">\n\n        \n        <div class=\"relative z-[2] max-w-4xl w-full flex flex-col items-center gap-2 cu-wideimage-image cu-zero-first-last\">\n            <header class=\"mx-auto mb-6 text-center text-cu-black-800 cu-pageheader cu-component-updated cu-pageheader--center md:mb-12\">\n\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold mb-2 text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] cu-pageheader--center text-center mx-auto after:left-px\">\n                        Emma Girvan: Bachelor of Arts, Criminology\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                            <\/header>\n        <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    \n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fpga\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2025\/06\/Emma-Girvan--1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Headshot of Criminology student, Emma Girvan\" class=\"wp-image-2793\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fpga\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2025\/06\/Emma-Girvan--1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fpga\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2025\/06\/Emma-Girvan--512x341.jpg 512w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fpga\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2025\/06\/Emma-Girvan--320x213.jpg 320w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fpga\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2025\/06\/Emma-Girvan--768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fpga\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2025\/06\/Emma-Girvan--1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fpga\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2025\/06\/Emma-Girvan--2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fpga\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2025\/06\/Emma-Girvan--600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fpga\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2025\/06\/Emma-Girvan--300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Carleton\u2019s criminology program is about more than just the three \u2018Cs\u2019\u2014crime, cops, and corrections. It\u2019s about exploring the deeper social, economic, and systemic factors that influence people\u2019s paths through the justice system.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That mission came to life for Emma Girvan during her field placement with the Pinecrest Community Health Centre in Ottawa.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI came to understand how the different factors in peoples\u2019 lives increased the likelihood of them being involved in the system,\u201d says Girvan, who worked at a community house supporting struggling families through a food bank and after-school programs. \u201cI could see those struggles play out with the risk factors we talked about in classes.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Girvan also had an impact on campus. She was elected president of the student-led Carleton University Criminology &amp; Criminal Justice Society (CUCCJS) and was lead editor of\u202f<em>Crime &amp; Ethos<\/em>, Carleton&#8217;s undergraduate criminology journal.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition, she earned a minor in American Sign Language.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"not-prose cu-quote cu-component-spacing\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cThrough the program at Carleton and its passionate staff, I was able to learn about and understand Deaf culture, and this knowledge and awareness will assist me as I further my education and career,\u201d says Girvan.\u202f&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Her academic and extracurricular achievements earned her the prestigious title of Provost Scholar for the Faculty of Public and Global Affairs for 2025.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Girvan will be heading to Osgoode Hall Law School in September with the ultimate goal of becoming a criminal defence lawyer \u2014 advocating for those whose stories are shaped by many of the same forces she studied.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But she will maintain fond memories of her time in Criminology.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe criminology department is small, supportive and passionate. 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