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Conceptualizing Silk Road as countercultural rebellion
(2015-08-01)
Silk Road (SR) is an anonymous online illicit marketplace (OIM) that is often cited as an example of criminal innovation. I add that SR is more than just a marketplace and should be considered as a demonstration of rebellion. ...
Operationalizing the spatial influence of the risk factors behind the open-air drug markets in Durham region
(2015-08-01)
The social cost of illegal drugs has reached a very high point both in Canada and around the world. The efforts to control the global flow of illegal drugs have not achieved to compensate these costs. This thesis examines ...
Individual factors predicting mental health court diversion outcome
(2011-06-01)
Little research has examined which individual factors may predict mental health
court diversion outcome. Using data provided by a non-profit mental health services
agency operating in the Durham Region in Ontario, this ...
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 ...
Perceptions of false confessions: Reducing prejudice toward exonerees through the use of educational materials
(2013-08-01)
Educational campaigns are commonly used for prejudice reduction (Levy Paluck & Green, 2009). We were interested if educational campaigns, such as those used by innocence organizations, were successful in reducing prejudice ...
Ideological parallels between Gamergate and white supremacy: a thematic content analysis
(2018-09-01)
The subject of this thesis is the main online hub of the alt-right video game movement Gamergate, for the purpose of examining if the discourse of Gamergate possesses significant ideological parallels with explicitly White ...
Situation tables as the new crime prevention: theoretical underpinnings, strengths, weaknesses, and best practices
(2018-11-01)
Change in police calls-for-service has resulted in a shift in the role of police through the years. Specifically, the increase in mental health calls for police services has created the Community Safety and Well-Being ...
Gendered boomtown impacts: a social service perspective on experiences of women in resource extraction communities
(2019-12-01)
The natural resource industry is dynamic, unpredictable, and unconventional. Past research on this industry has examined ‘boomtown impacts’ such has challenges to community cohesion, infrastructure issues, and crime, but ...
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 ...
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 ...