{"id":22718,"date":"2019-06-21T14:50:11","date_gmt":"2019-06-21T18:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/its-cuthemedev1.carleton.ca\/law\/?post_type=cu_people&p=22718"},"modified":"2025-07-24T10:25:45","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T14:25:45","slug":"taryn-hepburn","status":"publish","type":"cu_people","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/people\/taryn-hepburn\/","title":{"rendered":"Taryn Hepburn"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Taryn\u2019s research interests focus around the intersection of young people and Canadian criminal law. This includes the development and application of youth criminal justice in Canada, the policing and imprisonment of young people, as well as spaces and instances in which youth come in contact with adult justice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Supervisor:<\/span>
\nDr. Dale Spencer<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Education:<\/span>
\nBA Double Major in Political Science and Philosophy (Distinction), University of Alberta<\/em>
\nMA Legal Studies, Carleton University<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Publications:<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Menzie, Lauren, and Taryn Hepburn. (2020). \u201cHarm in the digital age: Critiquing the construction of victims, harm, and evidence in proactive child luring investigations.\u201d Manitoba Law Journal<\/em> 43:3. 391-420.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hepburn, Taryn, Dale C. Spencer, and Rosemary Ricciardelli. (2020). \u201cRural Policing, Youth, and Overlapping Fields of Youth Justice.\u201d Youth Justice<\/em>. Online. https:\/\/doi-org.proxy.library.carleton.ca\/10.1177%2F1473225420925175<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Menzie, Lauren, and Taryn Hepburn. 2019. \u201cTechnologies of Regulating Sexual Offenses against Youth.\u201d In Sexual Regulation and the Law: A Canadian Perspective<\/em>, edited by Richard Jochelson and James Gacek. Bradford, Ontario: Demeter Press. (Under contract, anticipated for Fall, 2019)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bendo, Daniella, Taryn Hepburn, Dale C. Spencer, and Raven Sinclair. 2019. “Advertising \u2018Happy\u2019 Children: The Settler Family, Happiness and the Indigenous Child Removal System.” Children & Society<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Presentations:<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHarm in a Digital Age: Critiquing the Construction of Victims, Harm, and Evidence in Proactive Child Luring Investigations.\u201d Co-presented with Lauren Menzie at Criminal Justice and Evidentiary Thresholds in Canada: the last ten years, University of Manitoba, Oct 26, 2019, Winnipeg, MB.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cPERMISSION (NOT) GRANTED: Regulation Through Spaces as Coding Machines.\u201d Presented at Emerging Perspectives: FPA Graduate Conference, March 10, 2020, Ottawa, ON.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cDistinguishing Representation from Reality: Critiquing the Use of Proactive Investigations to Police Child Luring,\u201d co-presented with Lauren Menzie at Law & Society Association 2019 Annual Meeting, June 1, Washington, DC. 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cToo Much of a Good Thing: Managing Young Bodies Through Hope and Risk,\u201d presented at Law, Culture, the Humanities 22nd Annual Conference, March 23, Ottawa, ON. 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOntario Team Update: Helen Allen and the Today\u2019s Child,\u201d presented at Pe-k\u00eew\u00eawin Project Advisory Board, University of Regina, December 18, Saskatoon, SK. 2017.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cPrivate Conversations: Analyzing Access to Law Through Wittgenstein\u2019s Language Games,\u201d presented at The Game of Law: Rules, Fools, and Cheats, Carleton University, March 23, Ottawa, ON. 2017.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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