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Browsing by Author "McMullan, John L., 1948-"
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2008)Online gambling sites have proliferated exponentially since the mid-1990s generating billions of dollars in revenue annually. However, this successful global industry is frequently the target or the perpetrator of cybercrime, ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2014)This thesis represents a qualitative content analysis of the final report of the Commission of Inquiry into the Wrongful Conviction of David Milgaard, also known as the Milgaard Inquiry. Influenced by Michel Foucault’s ...
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The press and Ashley Smith : power, knowledge, and the production of truth about a death in custody (Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2013)This research project examines the production of power and knowledge within print media representations of the Ashley Smith case. Smith was a teenager from New Brunswick who killed herself in a Canadian federal prison under ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2005)This thesis examines the news media's representation of stalking. Through claims-making, I investigate dominant constructions of who stalks, who gets stalked, the relationship between stalkers and their victims, and common ...
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The media, fear of crime, and gender : the production of news in a popular Canadian women's magazine (Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2006)This thesis examines how the media constructs fear of crime for women, and explicates why. I analyze 155 news articles regarding crime and criminal justice from 1970 to 1989 in Chatelaine magazine. Both content and textual ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2008)This thesis examines the newsmaking process that affects the integrity of the information presented to the public. Using content analysis and the social constructionist perspective, I analyzed 295 violent crime articles ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 1990)Donald Marshall, Jr., a sixteen-year old Micmac Indian, was wrongfully convicted of the murder of a Black youth named Sandy Seale in Sydney, Nova Scotia in 1971. Eleven years later, Marshall was exonerated, but at the same ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2003)This thesis studies how the press constituted the Westray public inquiry as a discursive formation that defined what could and could not be said about Westray and its aftermath. I critically examine news narratives from ...
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