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Karen Markham is counsel with the Criminal Law Policy section at the federal Department of Justice. She was called to the Ontario Bar in 1982 after graduating from the University of Ottawa Law School. She obtained her Masters Degree in Law from Osgoode Hall Law School in 1987 during which she focused on issues relating to sentencing and dangerous offender legislation. Ms. Markham has worked for a number of years as an Assistant Crown Attorney for the Ontario Attorney General’s office. During the course of her employment with the Department of Justice she has worked on a variety of different files including the development of legislation pertaining to youth justice, sentencing, voyeurism and the creation of a single level trial court for the new territory of Nunavut. Ms. Markham recently returned from a one-year secondment with the Judicial Affairs, Courts and Tribunal Policy Team at the Department of Justice and has assumed carriage of the identity theft file for the Criminal Law Policy Section.