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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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
Perceptions of crime changes, well-being, and personal safety during the COVID-19 pandemic
(2021-08-01)
Ontarians have been greatly impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic in terms of their personal safety, well-being, and stress. As such, data was collected in January 2021 and surveyed 258 Ontarians to determine the effects that ...
“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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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) ...
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 ...