Professor Dale Spencer

Profile

Dale Spencer is Professor in the Department of Law and Legal Studies at Carleton University in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Formerly a Banting Fellow, Ontario Early Research Award recipient, and Faculty of Public Affairs Research Excellence Chair, his main research interests are violence, sport, victimization, policing, youth, sex crimes, and conceptions of homelessness, domicile, and the law.

Research

Publications

• Bendo, D. and Spencer, D. (2026) Enmeshed Realities: Young People’s Lives in Digital Ecologies. University of Toronto Press.
• Spencer, D. (2022) The Face in Visual Representations of Children. Qualitative Research 22(2), 236-250.
• Spencer, D., Ricciardelli, R., & Silva, D. (2022) “They call us for everything”: Cynicism, Rural Policing and Youth Justice. Policing and Society 32 (6), 699-714.
• Bendo, D., Hepburn, T., Spencer, D., & Sinclair, R. (2019). Advertising “Happy” Children: The Settler Family, Happiness, and the Indigenous Child Removal System. Children & Society, 33(5): 399-413.
• Foster, K. and Spencer, D. (2012). Reimagining Intervention in Young Lives: Work, Social Assistance, and Marginalization. Toronto and Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press.

Expertise