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Human trafficking for the purpose of sexual exploitation is undoubtedly occurring in Northeastern Ontario. However, there is a lack of information, resources, coordination, and collaboration on the issue in comparison to Southern Ontario. Furthermore, urban-based programming from “down south” does not necessarily fit the unique circumstances of Northeastern Ontario: specifically, the isolation and underservicing of rural and remote communities, the presence of francophone communities, and diverse Indigenous communities. The Northeastern Ontario Research Alliance on Human Trafficking is a community-university research partnership that takes a critical anti-human-trafficking approach. We combine Indigenous and feminist methodologies with participatory action research. In this paper, we first present findings from our eight participatory action research workshops with persons with lived experience and service providers in the region, where participants identified the needs of trafficked women and gaps and barriers to service provision. Second, in response to participants' calls for collaboration, we have developed a Service Mapping Toolkit that is grounded in Indigenous cultural practices and teachings, where applicable, and in the agency and self-determination of persons experiencing violence, exploitation, or abuse in the sex trade. We conclude by recommending seven principles for building collaborative networks aimed at addressing violence in the sex trade. The Service Mapping Toolkit and collaborative principles may assist other rural or northern communities across the county.

Keywords: Critical anti-human trafficking, participatory action research, service mapping, Indigenous methodologies, feminist intersectionality, social work

Each issue of a scientific journal is the result of many rounds of negotiation, beginning with the editorial board, moving to those who have agreed to help with the issue, and ending with the process of review and revision of those manuscripts that will finally be published. Journal editors must maintain a balance between theoretical and experimental articles and between those that deal with empirical research that tests a particular hypothesis and those that are exploratory and open-ended. Based on the articles published in Criminologie from 1968 to 2016 (n = 658), this study analyses the effect of editorial strategies on the relative share of empirical quantitative research. Analyses show that editors, through the editorial board, can influence the supply of such articles through editorial innovations (such as thematic issues, biannual publication, open topic issues, encouraging diversity in authors' locations) but can also affect submissions through an increase in standards (uniform length, complex analysis) and by soliciting innovative articles. These editorial innovations have led to a journal that is scientifically diverse and have ensured the journal's survival for half a century.

Keywords: Revue Criminologie, méthode quantitative, innovations, processus éditorial, analyse historique, Criminologie, quantitative methods, innovations, editorial process, historical analysis, Revista Criminologie, método cuantitativo, innovaciones, proceso editorial, análisis histórico

 The present study comes out of a conference, « Feminisms Revisited » (University of Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany, 2010), and provides an overview of the importance and function of Simone de Beauvoir's {Second Sex} 60 years after it first appeared in Paris. Following a brief glance at what the book, often cited but rarely read in its entirety, is about and its genesis, the study looks at what was new in 1949 and its reception by North American feminists as well as by Cixous, Irigaray, and Kristeva. Then Judith Butler‘s and the so-called Third Wave feminists‘ analysis is discussed. The author comments on the argument of a supposedly postmodern Beauvoir as well as that of Beauvoir as the creator of a philosophy independent from Sartre's, defended by some scholars. Lastly, the article sheds light on how {The Second Sex} is seen today in the French public debate.

Keywords: Le Deuxième Sexe, Simone de Beauvoir, Jean-Paul Sartre, Kate Millett, Hélène Cixous, Luce Irigaray, Julia Kristeva, Judith Butler, Third Wave, parité, Élisabeth Badinter, Sylviane Agacinski

Research and criticism on Franco-Ontarian literature often rely on the aesthetics of exiguity to produce an analysis of these works. More often than not, this aesthetics is associated to the Franco-Ontarian cause, centered on linguistic minorization and implicitly carried by white men. Without completely rejecting this aesthetics, this article showcases a refreshed and more inclusive reading of exiguity. As François Paré put it in Les littératures de l'exiguïté, the core principle of this aesthetics is an unequal relation to power. My analysis is based on this observation and goes beyond the usual minority experience, based on language, to include other marginalities, such as gender and sexual orientation. To illustrate this renewal of the exiguity aesthetics, I study the work of two emergent authors, Véronique-Marie Kaye and Catherine Bellemare, who rely on trash aesthetics to depict the margins.

Keywords: Agriculture, Écologie, Éducation

In this article, the authors address the multiple perceptions of Francophone New Brunswick sex workers' relationship with their body. Informed by feminist writings locating the relation between body and sex work in a perpetual struggle between agency and subjectification, the results presented in their article are based on qualitative data collected from ten sex workers and twenty-six stakeholders from different practice backgrounds. They will explore the ways in which the body can be perceived in various ways with three dimensions: dependence and autonomy; shame and value; then finally, degradation and transformation.

Keywords: prostitución, cuerpo, cualitativo, adicción, salud mental, prostitution, corps, qualitative, toxicomanie, santé mentale

Our research focused on parenting among young people in difficulty in Montreal. In serious rupture with society (due to unemployment and social exclusion), they also become parents in a difficult relational and emotional context as regards their own family history (past abuse). An in-depth qualitative analysis was carried out on the basis of 23 semi-structured interviews with six fathers and 6 mothers attending or having attended an organization that helps young people in difficulty (Dans la Rue). Results reveal several possible support actions. However severe social conditions are (material difficulty, drug abuse, homelessness, lack of income), this should not blur the important psychological issues that may arise from parenting (reliving past trauma, perinatal loss, pre or post natal depression or changes in the parental couple due to the risk of separation).

Keywords: Parentalisation, jeunes, désaffiliation, violence, mentalisation, psychologie, Parenting, youth, disaffiliation, violence, mentalization, psychology

In terms of people with disabilities advocating for their sexual rights, in 2011 the French government took a stand on the issue of sexual accompaniment (practice also known as sexual assistance). Discussions taking place within political bodies and in the media continue to be stimulated by moral judgments, however without explaining the lower frequency of socio-gendered relationships. They are simply recorded, objectified and deplored. This article proposes an in depth look into the debate, not by questioning the issue of sexual needs or the humanization of people with disabilities, but by analyzing the reasons for a difference in the frequency of socio-gendered relationships. Is there one (or more) social casualties or can this phenomenon be explained solely by bodily differences?

Keywords: handicap, sexualité, socialisation, inégalité sociale, différence corporelle, disability, sexuality, socialisation, social inequality, bodily differences