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Beyond prosocial motivations to empathize
(2018-11-01)
This study aimed to re-evaluate the lay assumption that empathic concern is entirely guided by prosocial motivations. To this end, the Empathic Concern Motivations Scale was created to measure the magnitude of one’s prosocial ...
An examination of the impact of corroborator age on alibi assessment
(2018-06-01)
The purpose of the current research was to assess the impact of the age of an alibi corroborator on the perceptions and decision-making of alibi assessors. Across two studies, adult participants were asked to assume the ...
Perceptions of coercion: a comparison of perspectives
(2018-05-01)
When a confession is retracted, issues of coercion and voluntariness are important and often contested matters in criminal courts. Counsel may wish to call an expert witness to testify about the coercive pressures of certain ...
Campus sexual violence: exploring student perspectives on sexual violence and the effectiveness of university responses
(2019-08-01)
Sexual violence is a prevalent problem across North American universities. There is a lack of understanding of students’ sexually violent attitudes and behaviours and the effectiveness of university responses to sexual ...
Social importance of recognizing the victimization for mothers of school shooters
(2019-01-01)
This paper presents various topics that contribute to understanding Sue Klebold, Monique
Lépine, Terri Roberts, Laurel Harper, and Parvinder Sandhu as secondary victims of school shooting homicides. With the application ...
The many faces of Rob Ford: the representation of politician deviance, dishonesty and denial
(2015-09-01)
The discourse surrounding recent Canadian politics has involved the misbehaviour of Toronto’s former mayor, Rob Ford. Much of the information the public received about the antics of Ford is derived from media representations. ...
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. ...
Reconsidering the 'new' penology: Risk management, dangerous and judicial decision-making.
(2013-07-01)
As a result of the prevailing sense that ‘nothing works’ and the proliferation of risk oriented concerns in the criminal justice system, the current penal era has been characterized as a “new penology.” According to Malcolm ...