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The policing of terrorism: a comparative analysis of Turkish and Canadian counter-terrorism responses
(2015-07-01)
Police agencies assume a significant role in the creation and enforcement of government counter-terrorism strategies. Modern police organizations are tasked with preventing and responding to terrorism, in addition to their ...
A comparison of seated and room-scale virtual reality on medical-based serious games and virtual simulation
(2016-12-01)
Simulation-based training has been widely adopted by healthcare education as a
vital tool in the practice of skills within a safe environment. However, significant cost
and logistical challenges exist within traditional ...
An investigation of land-use impacts on water quality and algal communities in the Nottawasaga River and low-order streams of the Nottawasaga Valley Watershed
(2016-07-01)
The Nottawasaga Valley Watershed (NVW) is a large catchment south of Georgian Bay that drains a primarily agricultural region including one of the largest wetland complexes in Southern Ontario, the Minesing Wetlands (MW). ...
Mean girls in the press: a content analysis of two Toronto newspapers
(2011-10-01)
Recent criminological scholarship characterizes media attention to aggressive
girls, or “mean girls,” as a moral panic, which is correlated with the creation of
increasingly punitive antibullying policies in North America. ...
Race, place and crime through the lens of Toronto’s print media
(2015-07-01)
Geographical areas with high concentrations of impoverished racialized groups
tend to experience disproportionate rates of violence in Canada. As news media heavily
focuses on crime reports, violence often comes to ...
Conceptualizing Silk Road as countercultural rebellion
(2015-08-01)
Silk Road (SR) is an anonymous online illicit marketplace (OIM) that is often cited as an example of criminal innovation. I add that SR is more than just a marketplace and should be considered as a demonstration of rebellion. ...
Operationalizing the spatial influence of the risk factors behind the open-air drug markets in Durham region
(2015-08-01)
The social cost of illegal drugs has reached a very high point both in Canada and around the world. The efforts to control the global flow of illegal drugs have not achieved to compensate these costs. This thesis examines ...
Individual factors predicting mental health court diversion outcome
(2011-06-01)
Little research has examined which individual factors may predict mental health
court diversion outcome. Using data provided by a non-profit mental health services
agency operating in the Durham Region in Ontario, this ...
With a little help from my friends: Exploring the perceptions and utility of partners of drug crime.
(2013-07-01)
Co-offending and drug crime scholarship have rarely crossed paths. Whenever co-offending and drug crime are investigated together, the work is almost always quantitative. Thus much remains unknown about why drug dealers ...
Perceptions of false confessions: Reducing prejudice toward exonerees through the use of educational materials
(2013-08-01)
Educational campaigns are commonly used for prejudice reduction (Levy Paluck & Green, 2009). We were interested if educational campaigns, such as those used by innocence organizations, were successful in reducing prejudice ...