Faculty of Social Science & Humanities: Recent submissions
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Young adults’ understandings of their transition out of the child welfare system
(2021-07-01)This dissertation examines care leavers’ first-hand experiences of negative outcomes through a theoretical lens. Regardless of multiple, intersecting identities and structural changes, youth in the Ontario child welfare ... -
Exploring the interactional theory: a theoretical exploration of the dark web’s impact on delinquent behaviour
(2021-08-01)Throughout the years, modern issues of delinquent behaviour have evolved and shifted from the advancements of technology and the development of the virtual world. Despite the possibility for this connection, research has ... -
Willingness to help: how the portrayal and perception of a wrongfully convicted individual affects people’s willingness to help exonerees
(2021-08-01)Currently, in Canada there is no legal requirement to compensate exonerees (Roach, 2012), and despite research suggesting Canadians would be supportive of this government assistance for exonerees (Angus Reid, 1995; Clow, ... -
“Feeling like Rapunzel, you know?”: A narrative inquiry of youth, boredom, and deviance
(2021-08-01)In a late modern society, the presence of placelessness and meaninglessness can be overwhelming to individuals, especially youth. Jock Young’s theory of human behavior suggests that individuals engage in crime to rid ... -
Influencing motivation to empathize in individuals with heightened psychopathic traits: neural and behavioural assessment of empathizing with others
(2021-08-01)Central to psychopathy is a purported lack of empathy for others. However, recent literature suggests that the decreased empathic responses of psychopathic individuals may be a result of aberrant motivations, rather than ... -
Why would someone send me that?! Exploring the prevalence, contexts, motivations, and predictors of sending unsolicited sexual images
(2021-08-01)Technology has afforded the development of new ways to perpetrate non-consensual sexual acts, one being sending unsolicited sexual images (USIs). This thesis examined this underexplored act by examining the prevalence, ... -
Biased policing, martyrdom, white gratitude & brown pain: media narratives surrounding the Bruce McArthur case
(2021-08-01)Between 2010 - 2017, eight men from Toronto’s Gay Village went missing and later discovered murdered by Bruce McArthur, a 67-year-old gay, white man from Toronto. Upon McArthur’s 2018 arrest, allegations of racial bias and ... -
Youth correctional officer orientation and opinions on relationships with youth
(2021-08-01)This study explored the personal perspectives of current and past youth correctional officers within secure and open custody facilities in Ontario. A multi-methods design was used to examine officers’ orientation to their ... -
The effects of money laundering on the Canadian real estate market
(2021-04-01)White collar criminals benefit from their status and positions. Further, they invest the proceeds of crime into the Canadian real estate market, driving up the price of home ownership for working-class Canadians. This ... -
Predicting the threat of death in stalking cases through Artificial Neural Network
(2020-10-01)Stalking is a complex phenomenon that needs to be explained through several frameworks of research. During the years, scientists from the psychological, criminological, psychological, and legal fields made important steps ... -
Increasing experience sharing through regulation instructions
(2020-12-01)Experience sharing is an individual’s tendency to resonate with and take on the sensory, motor, and affective experiences of others. While traditional conceptualizations of this process argue its automaticity, recent ... -
Identity through Sports: Basketball and Black Masculinities
(2020-12-01)The development of black masculinities is a complex negotiation that is affected by various social constraints. While historically black males have faced significant checks on their construction of identity, their engagement ... -
Recidivism and treatment attrition among persons who sexually offend (PSOs): applying the integrated risk assessment and treatment system (IRATS)
(2020-09-01)The aim of this thesis was to investigate whether the Integrated Risk Assessment and Treatment System (IRATS; Looman & Abracen, 2013) can provide an explanatory framework for understanding persons who sexually offend (PSOs). ... -
Body-worn camera footage in the courtroom: an examination of the effects of BWC expert testimony on perceptions of police officer trustworthiness and guilt
(2020-09-01)As more police agencies rely on Body Worn Cameras (BWCs) worldwide, the following study aims to guide policing and legal proceedings through an examination of perceptions of guilt and trustworthiness of an officer on trial ... -
“Foids have no soul, they are not human.” A sociological examination of the language used by an online male supremacy group.
(2020-06-01)The online incel community has seen a rise in participation and mainstream media attention, largely due to recent mass murders targeting women committed by self-identified members. Scholarship has therefore focused on the ... -
Impacts of the TRC and ALRC reports on Indigenous correctional programming and services: a cross-country comparison of Canada and Australia
(2020-09-01)Indigenous peoples have been overrepresented in the Canadian and Australian criminal justice systems for decades. Commissions were established in both of the commonwealth countries, which produced reports addressing the ... -
Changing prostitution discourse in Canadian common law from 2010 to 2018
(2020-06-01)Since the first iteration of prostitution legislation in 1759, the language and discourses used to refer to ‘prostitution’ has undergone many changes. The constitutional challenge of Bedford v. Canada (2010 ONSC 4264) ... -
School resource officers: interrogation training, developmental knowledge, and questioning practices
(2020-09-01)Given the prevalence of School Resource Officers (SROs) in American schools, it is surprising that relatively little is known empirically about SRO training, including with regard to their questioning of students suspected ... -
Does mental context reinstatement mitigate Retrieval Induced Forgetting in eyewitnesses?
(2020-08-01)The current study sought to examine Retrieval Induced Forgetting (RIF) as it may occur within an investigative setting, while also assessing Mental Context Reinstatement (MCR) as a tool to mitigate this forgetting. Various ... -
The impact of individual differences on the interviewing success and post-training performance of investigative interviewers
(2019-08-01)In this thesis, whether and how personality characteristics affect the performance in investigative interviewing and the efficacy of training was examined in a three-step research design. In Study 1, the structure of a ...