Master Theses & Projects: Recent submissions
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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) ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
“…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, ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Beyond prosocial motivations to empathize
(2018-11-01)This study aimed to re-evaluate the lay assumption that empathic concern is entirely guided by prosocial motivations. To this end, the Empathic Concern Motivations Scale was created to measure the magnitude of one’s prosocial ... -
Using an ethnonarrative design within arts-based community research: SKETCH Toronto and its ongoing social impact
(2018-12-01)This paper explores the experiences of youth and their interaction with the Toronto arts organization “SKETCH Working Arts” using an ethnonarrative design to examine levels of impact through the organization. Drawing on ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Perceptions of coercion: a comparison of perspectives
(2018-05-01)When a confession is retracted, issues of coercion and voluntariness are important and often contested matters in criminal courts. Counsel may wish to call an expert witness to testify about the coercive pressures of certain ... -
Risk management at public events: a case study of a municipality within Southern Ontario
(2018-08-01)Current literature surrounding risk management at public events focuses on the efforts of municipal officials to reduce the risk of terrorist activity. The literature only focuses on large municipalities that host global ... -
Neuroimaging metrics of drug- and food-cue reactivity as a function of psychopathic traits, substance use, and substance dependence
(2018-08-01)We conducted two fMRI studies assessing the relationship between psychopathy and drug- and food-related neural reactivity. In the first study, we assessed the relationship between psychopathic traits and neural reactivity ... -
An exploration of Muslim Canadians’ perceptions towards law enforcement authorities and their willingness to cooperate in general crime control and counterterrorism efforts
(2018-07-01)Research suggests that following the tragic events of 9/11, Muslim Canadians have been subjected to increased discrimination by law enforcement officers. Nonetheless, few studies have explored how such experiences may ... -
An examination of the impact of corroborator age on alibi assessment
(2018-06-01)The purpose of the current research was to assess the impact of the age of an alibi corroborator on the perceptions and decision-making of alibi assessors. Across two studies, adult participants were asked to assume the ... -
Policing mental health: an exploratory study of crisis intervention teams and co-response teams in the Canadian context
(2018-05-01)Due to an increase in interactions between the police and persons with mental illness (PMI), police services have begun deploying specialized mental health responses to more adequately address these calls. One of these ...