• Development of the Interview and Interrogation Assessment Instrument 

  Kaplan, Jeffrey (2023-04-01)

  Confession evidence factors heavily in judicial decision making, and courts may call an expert social scientist to assess the coercive pressures of an interrogation and risk factors for false confession. At present, there ...

• Promoting self-determination amongst youth in conflict with the law: are advocates doing their part? 

  Simonetta, Tristan (2023-01-01)

  This thesis used data from eleven advocacy reports published between 1998-2017 in the province of Ontario. The reports ranged from specific youth facilities such as the Roy McMurtry and Hamilton Wentworth centers to reports ...

• Negative emotion and eyewitness memory 

  Snow, Mark D. (2022-12-01)

  Witnessing or being the victim of a crime is often emotionally distressing, and this emotional distress reaction can influence the storage and retrieval of event-related memory. Eyewitness memory, therefore, cannot be ...

• Easy skins, easy life: a chronological case study of loot boxes and transferable cosmetic items in the video game Counter-Strike: Global Offensive 

  Nguyen, Phillip (2022-12-01)

  Video game publishers have continually developed novel methods of maximizing revenues from video game titles. Modern gaming customarily involves paid downloadable content that further monetizes a base game. Loot boxes, ...

• What lies beneath: an examination of the underlying components of deception detection 

  Elliott, Elizabeth (2022-12-01)

  Little is known about the underlying components that are responsible for the processes involved with decision-making in deception detection. Throughout this dissertation, I explored previous (mis)conceptions about ...

• #RodneyReed: a content and thematic analysis of a trending innocence campaign 

  Cardoso, Carina M. (2022-12-01)

  Having spent 23 years (and counting) on death row for a murder conviction which is believed to be wrongful, Rodney Reed’s innocence campaign was shared on social media by celebrities, news organizations, and the public ...

• Parents’ perceptions of their children’s lie telling in the context of sibling relationships 

  Filoso, Daniella (2021-08-01)

  Familial influences on children’s deception are understudied. This thesis examined children’s lie telling in the context of sibling relationships by surveying parents on the types of lies told by children in the sibling ...

• Impact of terrorism awareness training on civilian likelihood to report pre-incident behaviours 

  Bencic, Renee Michelle (2020-08-01)

  This study investigated whether terrorism awareness training impacts the likelihood to report pre-incident behaviours associated with terrorism using infographics from the U.S. “See Something, Say Something” campaign. ...

• Gendered pathways: family violence as a primary pathway into homelessness for women 

  Chopik, Samantha L. (2022-08-01)

  This thesis analyzes secondary data from a study done on 30 homeless men and women in a region in Southern Ontario to assess the gendering of homeless pathways between each group. Qualitative and quantitative methods were ...

• Perceptions of police use of force: the role of context-specific factors, police legitimacy, and belief in a just world 

  Grave, Alexandra (2022-09-01)

  This thesis explores various factors that could explain variations in how acceptable police use of force is perceived to be among a Canadian sample. Four text-based vignettes depicting a police use of force encounter were ...

• Toward assessing and improving the protective efficacy of Canadians’ interrogation rights: misinformation and caution comprehension 

  Connors, Christina J. (2022-08-01)

  The right to silence and right to counsel serve to protect detainees facing the power imbalance of police interrogation. Unfortunately, research indicates people are misinformed about their rights and struggle to comprehend ...

• “Taking a chance and striking out”: an exploration of homelessness, housing pathways, and ‘self-sabotage’ 

  Wilson, Shannon (2022-08-01)

  Homelessness remains a prevalent social issue in Canada, though limited research has sought to explore the process of transitioning from homelessness to housing. Exits from homelessness are rarely straightforward and are ...

• Examining interview ground rules in formal interviews with children 

  Rodriguez Steen, Lillian A. (2022-08-01)

  Within the context of formal interviews with children, accuracy and clarity are paramount. Thus, protocols for interviewing children establish ground rules to encourage children to, for example, say “I don’t know,” “I don’t ...

• Connecting neoliberal ideology and incel ideology 

  Allison, Beverly M. (2022-08-01)

  Incels are an online transgressive subculture holding misogynistic views of women, including the belief that women unfairly refuse them sex. While there have been few heinous physical attacks by individuals self-identifying ...

• The impact of thin(ner) slicing on deception detection 

  Villeneuve, Katrina (2022-08-01)

  I examined whether the length of thin slices (i.e., observations of behavior less than five minutes) affected deception detection. Participants (N = 262) were randomly assigned to one of seven exposure length conditions ...

• Mock jurors’ perceptions of children testifying via a language interpreter 

  Espinosa Becerra, Ana Karen (2022-08-01)

  Language interpreters will increasingly be used in our globalized world. However, their impact on fact finders' perceptions is yet to be understood. The current research examined adults' perceptions of youth testifying via ...

• Hallmark's Happy Crime Films 

  Braithwaite, Andrea (American Review of Canadian Studies, 2022)

  This paper highlights the significance of crime films to the resurgence of the much-maligned and critically dismissed form of the made-for-TV-movie, particularly in relation to the highly affective language used to promote ...

• An analysis of face matching accuracy and related variables: a meta-analysis and two follow-up studies 

  Rumschik, Danielle M. (2022-07-01)

  Face matching is used in many different transportation and policing situations and is an important last line of defense in security contexts such as the TSA. Despite how important this task is in ensuring security, no ...

• Individuals’ empathic responses to exonerees’ emotional and physical suffering 

  Li, Jingyuan (2022-06-01)

  In exploring avenues to combat the stigma exonerees experience, a study was conducted to examine whether exposure to an exoneree’s suffering increases empathy and helping, and whether different empathic responses (e.g., ...

• The effects of rapport building on information disclosure in virtual interviews 

  Dion Larivière, Cassandre (University of Ontario Institute of Technology, 2022-06-01)

  Rapport-building has been identified as an effective tool when interviewing victims and witnesses of events that may be sensitive in nature. The objective of this study was to examine the rapport-building process within a ...

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