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Campus sexual violence: exploring student perspectives on sexual violence and the effectiveness of university responses
(2019-08-01)
Sexual violence is a prevalent problem across North American universities. There is a lack of understanding of students’ sexually violent attitudes and behaviours and the effectiveness of university responses to sexual ...
Social importance of recognizing the victimization for mothers of school shooters
(2019-01-01)
This paper presents various topics that contribute to understanding Sue Klebold, Monique
Lépine, Terri Roberts, Laurel Harper, and Parvinder Sandhu as secondary victims of school shooting homicides. With the application ...
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 ...
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 ...
“…she hit me and we stopped, she was yelling and screaming at me”: An exploration of the perceptions, identities and stigma of men and domestic violence
(2019-12-01)
Domestic violence is a prevalent and important global social issue. This thesis is unique as it seeks to mobilize knowledge of male perceptions and experiences of domestic violence by giving voice to a rather silenced, ...
Sensitizing the general public: experiential processing alters perceptions of confession evidence and minimization
(2019-06-27)
False confessions are a leading cause of wrongful convictions in Canada, suggesting a lack of protection against false confessions. Moreover, minimization tactics can increase the chance of false confessions. Current ...
The Ideological Conflict between the Criminalization of Drug Use and Harm Reduction Programming
(2019-06-25)
Policies that criminalize individuals who use drugs were first enacted for the purpose of imposing deviant identities on impoverished and racialized communities. These policies, which are disproportionately enforced, have ...