Browsing Master Theses & Projects by Title
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The waging of a virtual war against Islam: an assessment of how post-9/11 war-themed video games stereotype Muslims
(2019-02-01)Research suggests that American popular culture represents Muslim peoples, places, and cultures in ways that perpetuate Islamophobic ideas, and scholars have examined how fictional television shows and films communicate ... -
What’s in a name?: Revealing the function of the criminal pseudonym through a content analysis of ten characters in twelve films
(2015-05-01)At times, individuals articulate their criminal identity with the construction of a pseudonym derived from within their subculture. This study assumes there is a value and/or purpose in the construction, cultivation and ... -
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, ... -
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, ... -
With a little help from my friends: Exploring the perceptions and utility of partners of drug crime.
(2013-07-01)Co-offending and drug crime scholarship have rarely crossed paths. Whenever co-offending and drug crime are investigated together, the work is almost always quantitative. Thus much remains unknown about why drug dealers ... -
Youth and at-risk behavior: the aftermath of Hurricane Maria in the Caribbean Island of Dominica
(2021-09-01)Hurricane devastation in the Caribbean has become a very common phenomenon over the past decades, and the destruction that follows comes with severe implications for the people directly affected by it. This study aims to ... -
Youth homelessness: an exploration into the desire for family reunification
(2021-08-01)With family conflict serving as the predominant underlying factor that leads to youth homelessness, family has often been framed as “the problem.” As such, many youth services have ignored the role of family as potential ...