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Browsing by Thesis (Degree/Level) "Master of Arts in Criminology"
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"Actualizing risk through discourse" : towards an understanding of the dynamics of case management (Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2013)Youth justice discourses, specifically discussions of risk, or ‘risk talk’ has begun to impact current justice initiatives and projects (Bessant, Hill & Watts, 2003). The normalization of ‘risk’ has contributed to recent ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2013)This thesis focuses on an oral history interview conducted with Brenda Steed‐Ross, a former resident of Africville. In analyzing the interview, I examine how Brenda’s stories about gender, race, and power relations ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2017)This study examined seventy-two published case judgements involving Indigenous people being sentenced in criminal courts across Canada. The research analyses whether judges recognize the intersection of gender and colonialism ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2013)This thesis investigates the case R v. Ryan at the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia level. It is a feminist, post-structural critical discourse analysis of the gender scripts in R v Ryan. In particular, it examines the ways ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2016)I use the articulations of whiteness narrated by the prosecution and defence, in the high-profile, capital murder trial of Casey Anthony, as the focal point from which to begin my analysis, by looking at how both victim ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2019)Starting in 2012, several industry-insiders described a system of corruption to the Charbonneau Commission, an inquiry by the Quebec Government to investigate corruption in Montreal’s public works contract tenders. Many ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2019)This thesis examines the problem of corruption in Nigeria. Corruption has been theorized to be the major factor that hinders the development of Nigeria. The overarching objective was to understand the perception of the ...
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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, 2019)This thesis considers current program implementation at a provincial jail in New Brunswick, Canada, to explore the research question: how do women offenders experience services and supports relating to the women-centred ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2009)This thesis examines how representations of violence are minimized in the narratives of Hollywood blockbuster films. I analyzed the 25 top grossing films of all-time, worldwide, as of July 2003 to demonstrate whether and ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2019)Given our justice system’s use of services designed specifically for men, I consider the appropriateness of an alternative model: The Good Lives Model of Offender Rehabilitation (GLM). Specifically, the gender-neutrality ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2011)Media representations and public discourse about girls' violence and delinquency has presented marginalized, urban girls from disadvantaged communities as risked, vulnerable and deviant . These images problematically ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2019)Inadequate government regulation of for-profit corporate water extraction is a significant issue in Canada but lacks scholarly research, notably in the field of criminology. The thesis aims to examine and critically analyze, ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2011)Using the reality television show, The Swan , as a narrative frame, my Master's thesis explores the discursive construction of feminine subjectivity, empowerment, liberation, choice, self-esteem and resistance in the context ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2014)This thesis examines the implementation of restorative approaches at an Elementary school in Halifax, Nova Scotia. I conducted a case study involving several participants involved in the implementation process. My analysis ...
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Institutionalizing restorative justice : a case study of the Nova Scotia Restorative Justice Program (Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2019)This thesis aimed at examining the institutionalization process through a case study of the Nova Scotia Restorative Justice Program (NSRJP) by exploring how the state involvement with a restorative justice program may ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2014)Using one of AMC’s “original series",The Walking Dead, as a narrative frame, this thesis offers a qualitative critical analysis of different and competing discourses of power, authority, gender, race, class, the law, ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2018)The forensic mental health population is made up of individuals who are living with mental illness and encounter the criminal justice system. Supported housing—which combines housing and mental health support and services—as ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2019)The 7th Step Society of Nova Scotia is a peer support group for ex-offenders. The role that such groups play in supporting desistance from crime has received little scholarly attention. To address this knowledge gap, this ...
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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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