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An applied comparison of eyewitness lineup procedures: New Jersey v. England and Wales' PACE v. New York.
(2014-07-01)
In response to the growing recognition of wrongful conviction and the role that mistaken identification (ID) plays in these miscarriages of justice, some countries, states, and police departments have developed new guidelines ...
Milking anomie: experiencing food safety on Canadian dairy farms
(2014-04-01)
The developing discipline of Food Crime requires the analysis of food safety responsibility from a critical structural perspective. Analyzing the Canadian dairy industry, this project seeks to answer how the legal definition ...
The meaning of murder: newspaper framing of hate crimes against lesbians.
(2014-08-01)
The overall purpose of this study is to assess the representations of lesbians within United States news print media to examine the effect these representations can have on societal level ideologies. Using two separate ...
Teenage serial homicide offenders: a typology.
(2014-12-01)
Although serial homicide literature covers a variety of serial homicide offender classifications, to date, there has been a limited amount of research conducted on teenage serial homicide. Only two studies have attempted ...
Michael Slobodian: the forgotten school shooter. An examination of the on-scene offense characteristics of the first Canadian school shooting, Brampton, Ontario, 1975.
(2014-12-01)
Mass murders and school shootings have become an emerging social problem in North America over the last two decades. Although rare, these terrifying events elicit horror, shock and fear across the nation. Despite the ...
Examing the effects of apology and compensation on participants' perceptions of exonerees.
(2014-08-01)
Research suggests that exonerees experience stigma post-incarceration that causes reintegration
difficulties (Westervelt & Cook, 2010). Using Weiner’s (1993) theory of social motivation, we
investigated whether apology or ...
Power, privilege and cover-up: a case study on how intertextuality in police records can mislead homicide investigations
(2014-10-01)
Despite the newfound interest in homicide investigations, only a limited number of studies have been able to examine the validity of police and other official records which are collated during the course of an investigation. ...