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404 not found error: searching for truth in privatized corrections through online material
(2012-12-01)
In the last three decades private involvement in correctional service has transformed. Since the 1980s private interest in correctional service has evolved from the delivery of tertiary and secondary services such as ...
Public opinion on cyber-bullying laws in Canada
(2015-07-01)
The proliferation of the Internet raises concern over the misuse and abuse of information and communication technology. A downside to the rapid adoption of hyper-connectivity is the potential danger resulting from the use ...
Examining the impact of post secondary drug education.
(2013-07-01)
The prohibition of many drugs has led to the development and implementation of drug related education programs that typically exist at the elementary school level. As many of these programs are funded by the Canadian ...
Rights or wrong? Perceptions of trans people among undergraduate students
(2017-07-01)
Transgender people are still facing discrimination and misconceptions regarding their lives and lived experience (Abraham, 2016; Clements-Nolle, Katz & Marx, 2006; Finkenauer et. al, 2012; Maclean, 2016; Pyne, 2011; Roussy, ...
Poverty, structural violence, and harm in Ontario
(2016-04-01)
This study examined the experiences of those living in poverty in Ontario through the lens of social harm and structural violence. This research revealed that the experience of poverty is characterized by material hardship, ...
Indo-Caribbean immigrants perceptions of dating abuse
(2016-04-01)
Diverse cultures as well as social and political conditions work in various ways to alter the experiences of dating abuse among divergent populations. Utilizing an Intersectionality paradigm, I have attempted to understand ...
Blurred lines: perceptions of sexual consent and the role of mental illness
(2016-01-01)
Sexual activity can be a pleasurable and critical element of self-expression. However, research
has found that mental illness is a condition that may affect the ability to sexually consent.
Despite this fact, sexual ...
The effect of target language proficiency on deception detection among undergraduate students
(2015-08-01)
I examined the impact of targets’ language proficiency on observers’ lie detection accuracy, discrimination, bias, and confidence. Observers (N = 132) were randomly assigned to make deception judgments about targets (N = ...
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 ...