Dr. Tanya Trussler

PhD in Sociology: McGill University, 2010

Office: T177
Phone:403.440.5526
E-mail: ttrussler@mtroyal.ca
 

Dr. Tanya Trussler is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Justice Studies. She completed her PhD in Sociology at McGill University where she studied geo-temporal factors affecting homicide and homicide clearance in Canada.

Teaching Interests: Quantitative Methodologies, Violence and Society
Research Interests: Interpersonal Violence, Recidivism, Gang Violence, Quantitative Criminology, Inter- and Intra- State Violence, and Extra-State Violence.

Forthcoming Publications and Presentations

2011 • Trussler, Tanya. Submitted. “A fixed effects analysis of factors affecting changing homicide clearance rates in Canada.”

2011 • Trussler, Tanya. Submitted. “Demographics and Homicide in Canada: A Fixed Effects Analysis of the Role of Young Males on Changing Homicide Rates.”

Nov. 2011 • Trussler, Tanya “Homicide Clearance in Urban Canada: Cox Regression Analysis of Homicide Clearance in Seven Canadian Cities” at the American Society of Criminology conference, Washington DC.

Nov. 2011 • Witt, Christina and Tanya Trussler “Determinants of Homicide Solvability in Urban Canada: Detectives’ Perspectives on Clearance in Calgary” at the American Society of Criminology conference, Washington DC

Nov. 2011 • Carmichael, Jason and Tanya Trussler “Examining the Factors Affecting Homicide Rate Changes using Negative Binomial Regression” at the American Society of Criminology conference, Washington DC

Nov. 2011 • Romanoski, Joseph and Tanya Trussler “Sexual Assault on a Western Canadian University Campus” round table presentation at the American Society of Criminology conference, Washington DC.

Previous Publications and Presentations

2010 • Trussler, Tanya. 2010. “Explaining the Changing Nature of Homicide Clearance in Canada.” International Criminal Justice Review, 20(4)366-383.

Nov. 2010 • Trussler, Tanya “The Changing Nature of Unsolved Homicide in Urban Canada 1991 - 2006” American Society of Criminology conference, San Francisco, CA.

Nov. 2009 • Trussler, Tanya “Demographics and Homicide in Canada: Fixed Effects Analysis of Homicide Rates from 1971 to 2007” American Society of Criminology conference, Philadelphia, PA.

Nov. 2008 • Pearson-Nelson, Benjamin and Tanya Trussler “Homicide Trends: Uncovering Spatial and Temporal Patterns Comparing U.S. and Canadian Rates” at the American Society of Criminology conference, St. Louis MO.

Oct. 2008 • Trussler, Tanya “The Distribution of Law: Unsolved Homicide in Canada” at the Canadian Criminology Association conference, Toronto ON.

Oct. 2008 • Trussler, Tanya and Sara Amin “Global Terrorism: The Risk of Repeated Extra-State Conflict” at the Canadian Criminology Association conference, Toronto, ON.

Nov. 2007 • Trussler, Tanya “Fixed Effects Analysis of Temporal and Geographical Trajectories of Homicide in Canada: Change and Stability in Regional Rates over 35 years” at American Society of Criminology conference, Atlanta GA

Nov. 2007 • Trussler, Tanya and Sara Amin “Islamic Terrorist Network Structures: A Dynamic Analysis of Cellular Durability” at the American Society of Criminology, Atlanta GA.

May 2007 • Amin, Sara and Tanya Trussler “A Positional Analysis of Violent Religious Organizations: Mapping the Network Structures of Violent Islamic Groups and Individuals” at the International Sunbelt Social Networks Conference, Corfu, Greece.

Nov. 2005 • Trussler, Tanya “Predictors of Recidivism among Criminal Offenders: A Cox Regression Analysis of US Federal Parolees Reoffence Risk” at the American Society of Criminology conference, Toronto ON

1999 Bantjes, Rod and Tanya Trussler. 1999. “Feminism and the Grass Roots: Women and Environmentalism in Nova Scotia.” Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology, 36(2): 179-197.