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Jury Decision-Making Study
(University of Waterloo, 2006)In this thesis I combine the social network analysis approach with the traditional experimental approach to study the phenomena of jury decision-making. I examine whether with each trial a social network is formed. The ... -
Life After Harm: Exploring the Impact of a Restorative Justice Peer Support Group for People Who Have Sexually Offended
(University of Waterloo, 2023-04-25)In recent decades, restorative justice approaches such as victim-offender conferences and circle processes have emerged as a response to people who have caused sexual harm. The traditional legal responses to sexual offending ... -
Lobbying for the "Public Good": A Case Study of a Nonprofit Sector Lobbying Effort in Alberta, Canada
(University of Waterloo, 2011-01-24)Political advocacy research has often relied on concepts from social movement literature to explain the success or failure of lobbying efforts. The following study builds on recent efforts to partner social movement concepts ... -
Lone Mothers Exiting Social Assistance: Gender, Social Exclusion and Social Capital
(University of Waterloo, 2014-05-14)After the North American wave of “welfare reform” in the 1990s, much research has measured the success of the work-to-welfare model. Lone mothers as a group have proved a particularly intractable challenge to policies aimed ... -
Love in the Time of Caller ID: Understanding the Role of Smartphone Technology in Committed Relationships
(University of Waterloo, 2018-08-23)Smartphones have changed the way our world works, and have had particularly unique impacts on the way human relationships function. Among the most important of those relationships are the ones that people form by choice ... -
Manifestation of Religious Authority on the Internet: Presentation of Twelver Shiite Authority in the Persian Blogosphere
(University of Waterloo, 2012-05-23)Cyberspace has diversified and pluralized people’s daily experiences of religion in unprecedented ways. By studying several websites and weblogs that have a religious orientation, different layers of religious authority ... -
Measuring Intellectual Diversity in Groups, and Its Effects on Scientific Impact and Productivity
(University of Waterloo, 2017-11-09)I answer questions regarding the relationship between the intellectual diversity of an individual’s collaborations and their impact and productivity. I propose two new measures of intellectual diversity∶ coauthor diversity ... -
Membership Retention in Scout Troops
(University of Waterloo, 2001-08-16)Factors affecting membership retention in Scout troops were examined. Scout meetings were unobtrusively observed and program information questionnaires were completed for 17 urban Scouts Canada Scout troops (age range ... -
Memory, Modernity, and the City: An Interpretive Analysis of Montreal and Toronto's Respective Moves From Their Historic Professional Hockey Arenas
(University of Waterloo, 2004)This thesis seeks to understand how and if the popular claims that hockey is an integral part of the culture in Toronto and Montreal are referenced, oriented to, and/or negotiated in everyday life. Taking the cases of ... -
Missing Persons and Social Exclusion
(University of Waterloo, 2013-08-02)People who go missing are often perceived to have done so voluntarily, and yet, many missing persons in Canada are Aboriginal, visible minorities, homeless, and are fleeing from violence, abuse, and neglect. Integrating ... -
Moral Panics and the Governance of South Asian Gang Involvement: The Construction of a Local ‘Cultural’ Problem
(University of Waterloo, 2019-12-17)In the last three decades, nearly two hundred South Asian men have died in gang violence in Lower Mainland British Columbia. These deaths, coupled with the fear that young men in the community are susceptible to joining ... -
Multiple Programs, One Offender: Investigating the Interaction Effects of Custodial Treatment Programs on Male Offenders
(University of Waterloo, 2011-09-14)Many offenders participate in multiple treatment programs while incarcerated. Despite this, few studies have investigated the possibility of interactions between programs, and instead the correctional discourse has focused ... -
Occupational Prestige of Canadian Professions in the New Economy
(University of Waterloo, 2008-12-19)Canadian professions have, paradoxically, lost prestige at least in a relative sense, despite being the prototype for the expanding new economy. The early 1990s saw a transition from the old economy to a new economy ... -
Offender Gender, Mental Illness and Trauma Experience in Relation to Re-contact with the Criminal Justice System
(University of Waterloo, 2013-01-25)Female offenders’ experiences within the criminal justice system and the way in which they become involved with the criminal justice system are very different than that of male offenders. Previous research that has been ... -
Overcoming Inequality: How Schools Compensate for Socioeconomic Gaps in Children’s Learning
(University of Waterloo, 2019-04-18)This dissertation views schools’ compensatory mechanisms from a mixed methods approach, consisting of both quantitative and qualitative data that were collected from a larger study on summer learning in Canada (see Davies ... -
Pathways of Crime and Delinquency: A life-course analysis of informal social control of antisocial behaviour
(University of Waterloo, 2010-04-29)The aim of this dissertation is to provide a comprehensive examination of crime and delinquency over the early life-course through an informal social control perspective. Specifically, the dissertation examines how sources ... -
Peer Language Use and Criminal Decision-Making: An Experimental Study Testing Framing Effects of Peer Messages
(University of Waterloo, 2023-05-25)Criminal decision-making tends to occur in social contexts. There is evidence that the decision to commit a crime is often preceded by verbal communication, however, relatively little is known about the mechanisms through ... -
Personal Competance and Environmental Press Characteristics Related to Adaptive Functional Ability Among Older Men and Women
(University of Waterloo, 2016-09-15)Independence is highly valued in society at any age. Maintaining that independence remains a goal that is carried into old age. Among the community elderly, independence is often measured by the ability to satisfactorily ... -
Planned Parenthood Waterloo Region: Adapting Feminist Organization Theory to Daily Practice
(University of Waterloo, 1998)As a volunteer with Planned Parenthood Waterloo Region (PPWR), I observed an organization that was providing services in a feminist context. PPWR is a feminist organization: a goal of the agency is to reduce gender power ... -
Police Officers’ Attitudes Toward Civilian Oversight Mechanisms in Ontario, Canada
(University of Waterloo, 2016-10-27)Police services in Canada were historically self-regulating institutions that managed internally their administrative affairs and allegations of professional misconduct. In recent decades, however, there has been an ...