Yvon Dandurand

Who is Yvon Dandurand?

Yvon Dandurand is a Canadian criminologist who has taught criminology courses and sociology of law courses at various universities across Canada, including Queen's University, the University of Ottawa, and Carleton University. He married a Québécois woman just as the men of three previous generations of his family did before him. He is the Research and Industry Liaison for the University of the Fraser Valley and serves as Senior Associate for the International Centre for Criminal Law Reform and Criminal Justice Policy. He is also Director of Research and Statistics for the Department of Justice. In 2006, he co-wrote a handbook called Handbook on Restorative Justice Programmes with Curt T. Griffiths that was published by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime. In 1981, he was wrongfully arrested and imprisoned for shoplifting, and was awarded $75000 in damages for false arrest and false imprisonment three years later. In 1983, he recommended that a surtax be levied on all convictions in Canada such that criminals would be required to financially compensate their victims. Barbara Jane Messamore acknowledged Dandurand as having helped her in writing her 2006 book Canada's Governors General, 1847-1878, and Sylvie Murray similarly acknowledged Dandurand's support in her 2011 book Writing World War II. In 2012, Dandurand appeared on a discussion panel about human trafficking in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada in conjunction with a performance of Andrew Kooman's She Has a Name at the Hotel Grand Pacific.