Danielle McNabb is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at Brock University.

I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science, Forensic Psychology and Criminal Justice Program (FPAC) at Brock University.

My research and teaching focus on public law, criminal justice policy and administration, and Canadian politics. My current research agenda primarily examines matters of policing & police oversight and legal mobilization under the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

My work has appeared in the Canadian Journal of Political Science, Policing & Society, Women & Criminal Justice, Canadian Journal of Law and Society, Review of Constitutional Studies, Windsor Yearbook of Access to Justice, among other venues.

Before joining Brock University, I completed a Ph.D. in Political Studies at Queen’s University, and a M.A. in Criminology and Criminal Justice Policy at the University of Guelph.

Publications

Peer Reviewed Journal Articles

  • McNabb, Danielle, and Kate Puddister. (2024): To Serve and Protect? “An Empirical Study of Police-Involved Sexual Assault.” Women & Criminal Justice 34(2): 149-170

  • Puddister, Kate, and Danielle McNabb. (2024). Police oversight in practice: the Special Investigations Unit and civilian police oversight in Ontario, Canada. Policing and Society. https://doi.org/10.1080/10439463.2024.2339364

  • Chouinard, Stéphanie and Danielle McNabb. (2024). Can equity-seeking groups become “haves” in Canada’s judicial system? A study of Francophone minority communities’ strategic intervention in the domain of language rights. Review of Constitutional Studies.

  • McNabb, Danielle. (2023). Who Intervenes in Supreme Court Cases in Canada?” Canadian Journal of Political Science, 56(3), pp. 715-728. https://doi.org/10.1017/S000842392300046X

  • Dauda, Carol L. and Danielle McNabb. (2022). Getting to Proportionality: the trouble with sentencing for possession of child pornography in Ontario. Windsor Yearbook of Access to Justice, Vol. 37, pp. 278-311. DOI: https://doi.org/10.22329/wyaj.v37i1.7198

  • McNabb, Danielle, and Dennis Baker. (2021). Ignoring Implementation: Defects in Canada’s “Rape Shield” Policy Cycle. Canadian Journal of Law and Society, 36 (1), pp. 23-46. doi:10.1017/cls.2020.35

  • Puddister, Kate, and Danielle McNabb. (2021). When the Police Break the Law: The Investigation, Prosecution and Sentencing of Ontario Police Officers. Canadian Journal of Law and Society, 1-24, doi:10.1017/cls.2021.3

Peer Reviewed Book Chapters

  • Small, Tamara A. and Danielle McNabb. (2023). “‘It’s Kinda Complicated’ The Uncertain Relationship between Digital Technology and Democracy.” In Critical Concepts: An Introduction to Politics, 6th Edition. Edited by Janine Brodie, Sandra Rein, and Malinda S. Smith. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

  • Hausegger, Lori, McNabb, Danielle, and Troy Riddell. (2022). “The Provincial Courts of Appeal and Section 24(2) of the Charter.” In Constitutional Crossroads: Reflections on Charter Rights, Reconciliation, and Change. Edited by Emmett Macfarlane and Kate Puddister. UBC Press.

Media Articles and Op-eds

Other Knowledge Mobilization