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Toward assessing and improving the protective efficacy of Canadians’ interrogation rights: misinformation and caution comprehension
(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 ...
Gendered pathways: family violence as a primary pathway into homelessness for women
(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
(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 ...
Development of the Interview and Interrogation Assessment Instrument
(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 ...
Squeegee Punks reunite: safe streets for all: an insider qualitative study
(2023-06-01)
Squeegee Punks were a fixture on many busy street corners in urban cities in Canada in the mid to late 1990s. During the height of the squeegee kid phenomenon, multiple studies were conducted on how squeegee work impacted ...
Breaking the silence: an intersectional approach to sexual violence and harm narratives of women living in Lebanon
(2023-10-01)
Lebanon has experienced war and conflict for the last four decades, yet there is an absence of literature on Lebanese women’s lived experience of the Lebanese Civil War (LCW) (April 1975 – October 1989), and the ongoing ...
Understanding minor attracted persons
(2023-10-01)
Minor attracted persons (MAPs) are a group of understudied individuals who acknowledge a sexual interest in children but who may never have offended against a child. They are often regarded the same as individuals who have ...
Formerly incarcerated women’s online accounts of pathways to criminality and incarceration: a contribution to feminist pathways theory
(2023-11-01)
Some feminist scholars argue that pathways research is not truly representative of girls’ and women’s pathways to crime. This paper uses the gendered pathways theory that recognizes and highlights some of the unique factors ...
The effects of rapport building on information disclosure in virtual interviews
(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 ...
An analysis of face matching accuracy and related variables: a meta-analysis and two follow-up studies
(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 ...