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Browsing Sociology and Legal Studies by Title
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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 ... -
An Organizational Perspective on Experiential Education in Ontario Higher Education
(University of Waterloo, 2024-06-14)Experiential education has long been appreciated for its pedagogical value. There is a considerable body of evidence suggesting that students reap particular benefits when ‘learning by doing’ and engaging in practical ... -
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 ... -
The Post-Secondary Decision-Making Process for At-Risk Students in Ontario
(University of Waterloo, 2020-11-23)An important body of research examines the role of student decision-making on stratification and post-secondary transitions. In an era of expanded options, students often have to draw on personal, family and institutional ... -
Pressuring Others: Examining the Motivations Behind Deviant Instigation and the Strategies That Accompany Them
(University of Waterloo, 2023-06-30)Research on the motivations behind peer pressure and deviance has been close to non-existent. This dissertation presents a mixed methods study that was conducted exploring the motivations and strategies behind deviant ... -
PREVENTING OCCUPATIONAL INJURY: AN EXAMINATION OF TWO PARTICIPATORY WORKPLACE HEALTH PROGRAMS
(University of Waterloo, 2009-09-01)Attempting to enhance their productivity or improve working conditions, many businesses have adopted organizational change programs that involve a participatory component. To attain a comprehensive understanding of these ... -
A randomized trial testing deviant modeling, peer gender, and theft: replication and extension
(2019)Objectives: Replicate previous experimental findings on the causal effect of deviant peer modeling and assess whether the gender of peer models is an important determinant of theft. Methods: A randomized control trial ... -
The reading modality of popular trauma talk from within the province of human practice: A phenomenological hermeneutic perspective
(University of Waterloo, 2017-04-27)The term trauma occurs on a regular and frequent basis in Canadian newspapers. Contemporary inquiries into the phenomenon of the popularity of the term “trauma” have argued that trauma has become: a term that has drifted ... -
Recreating a Taste of Home in Canada: A Radical Interpretive Inquiry into Toronto’s Intergenerational Chinese Food Sharing Networks
(University of Waterloo, 2020-05-13)In multicultural Toronto, there is a large and increasing Chinese population. However, only very limited recent sociological research has been conducted on the lived experiences of Chinese immigrants and the children of ...