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Keep up to date with<\/strong> Marcus<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My dissertation research focuses on a critical examination of the idea of \u201crape culture\u201d and how this concept seeps into, or is rejected, in political, legal, and social imaginaries.  More specifically, I am interested in the ways legal reform to Canadian sexual violence laws in the late 1970s framed discussions of rape and sexual violence and how these compare to contemporary political and legal interventions attempt to address sexual violence. I am currently conducting archival research which explores how changes in legal language and political framings of sexual violence\u2014namely removing the term rape from the Criminal Code (circa 1978-1983)\u2014informs contemporary debates around sexual violence which are centred around the political and legal limitations of sexual identity politics\u2014namely the affective dimensions of organizing around and contesting the idea that we live in a \u201crape culture.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My research also centres on the relationship between affect, risk, and criminalization within a framework of gendered-based violence. I have published in the areas of risk and governmentality in relation to sex work and am currently part of an ongoing SSHRC funded research project aimed at exploring how photographic evidence is collected, curated, and presented in domestic violence trials. In 2015 I was a research assistant on a study related to campus based sexual violence funded by the Ontario Ministry of Community Safety and Correctional Services and my research involvement in these fields are ongoing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Areas of Research<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 Affect, risk, and criminalization
\n\u2022 Critical victimology and subjectivities
\n\u2022 Sex work, domestic violence, and sexual violence<\/p>\n\n\n\n

PhD Supervisors<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Dawn Moore<\/a> & Dale Spencer<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Publications<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Sibley, Marcus A. (2018) Owning Risk: Sex Worker Subjectivities and the Reimagining of Vulnerability and Victimhood, The British Journal of Criminology<\/em>, azy010, https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1093\/bjc\/azy010<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sibley, Marcus A., Wohlbold, Elise, Moore, Dawn and Singh, Rashmee (forthcoming, Fall 2018\/Spring 2019). \u201cHow She Appears:\u201d Demeanour, Cruel Optimism and the Relationship Between Police and Victims of Domestic Violence\u201d in eds. George Pavlich and Matthew P. Unger, Entryways and Criminalization. <\/em>University of Alberta Press.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Book Reviews<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sibley, Marcus A. (2016) Remembering Vancouver’s Disappeared Women: Settler Colonialism and the Difficulty of Inheritance by Amber Dean (review), Canadian Journal of Law and Society 31 (3), 507-509.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sibley, Marcus A. (2015) EMILY VAN DER MUELEN, ELYA M. DURISIN, and VICTORIA LOVE, eds., Selling Sex: Experience, Advocacy, and Research on Sex Work in Canada. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2013, ix+ 335 p, index. Canadian Review of Sociology\/Revue canadienne de sociologie 52 (1), 105-108<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Public Commentaries<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSibley: Now’s the time to stop charging people with pot offences.\u201d Ottawa Citizen, April 14, 2017. https:\/\/ottawacitizen.com\/opinion\/columnists\/sibley-nows-the-time-to-stop-charging-people-with-pot-offences<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cNew marijuana task force should recommend immediate decriminalization.\u201d Montreal Gazette, July 5, 2016 (also reprinted in the Ottawa Citizen, July 12, 2016). https:\/\/montrealgazette.com\/opinion\/columnists\/opinion-new-marijuana-task-force-should-recommend-immediate-decriminalization<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAmnesty has it right: Decriminalization reaffirms sex worker rights\u201d Rabble.ca, September 21, 2015. http:\/\/rabble.ca\/blogs\/bloggers\/views-expressed\/2015\/09\/amnesty-has-it-right-decriminalization-reaffirms-sex-worker-r<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOne Year After Bedford: Where Are We Now?.\u201d Rabble.ca, January 9, 2015. http:\/\/rabble.ca\/news\/2015\/01\/one-year-after-bedford-where-are-we-now<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Education<\/strong>
\nMaster of Arts, Legal Studies, Carleton University (2015).
\nB.A (Hons.) Criminology & Anthropology (minor), York University (2013)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Recent Awards and Distinctions<\/strong>
\n2018- OGS Graduate Scholarship
\n2015- Senate Medal for Outstanding Academic Achievement
\n2015- SSHRC \u2013 Joseph-Armand Bombardier CGS Doctoral Scholarship
\n2013- SSHRC \u2013 Joseph-Armand Bombardier CGS (Master\u2019s)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21968,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"cu_people_first_name":"Marcus","cu_people_last_name":"Sibley","cu_people_initials":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_people_type":[156],"cu_people_expertise":[],"class_list":["post-16925","cu_people","type-cu_people","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","cu_people_type-alumni"],"acf":{"cu_people_job_title":"PhD Candidate (Legal Studies)","cu_people_degree":"","cu_building":false,"cu_people_office_num":"","cu_people_pronoun":"none","cu_people_designation":"","cu_people_email":"marcus.sibley@carleton.ca","cu_people_phone":"","cu_people_phone_ext":"","cu_people_linkedin":"","cu_people_bluesky":"","cu_people_twitter":"http:\/\/twitter.com\/@marcussibley","cu_people_instagram":"","cu_people_facebook":"","cu_people_website":"","cu_people_orcid":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/16925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/cu_people"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/16925\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21969,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/16925\/revisions\/21969"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_people_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people_type?post=16925"},{"taxonomy":"cu_people_expertise","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people_expertise?post=16925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}