Theses and Dissertations

Fall

• Beck, Natalie - MA - The Gang, the Myth, the Legend: Effects of a Gang Awareness Campaign on Gang-Related Attitudes, Beliefs, and Knowledge Among Youth (not yet published online)
• Brown, Sydney - MA - Policing sex work online: sex workers' views on the risks and benefits of using AI to police online ads for sexual services
• Smith Payten - MA - Exoneree reintegration and resource access: examining the availability, accessibility and effectiveness of post release resources

Spring

• Bouchard, Jessica April - PhD - Are the kids alright? Toward best practices for students' successful transition to secondary school
• Paulsen, Rebecca - MA - British Columbia police officer perceptions of mandatory drug treatment within the context of decriminalization
• Rossouw, Zena - MA - Stranger danger: Analyzing offender behaviours based on victim approach tactics in sexual homicide
• Walter, Megan Layne - MA - When homicide isn't enough: Sexual murderers who steal from their victims

Summer

• Babic, Juliana - MA - Unraveling the Youth Criminal Justice Act: analyzing underreporting in youth crime statistics from the General Social Survey
• Callahan, Isabelle - MA - Unlocking identity change: the influence of social support behind bars
• Grant, Korrie - MA - Learning to walk in a good way: a white occupier's path to decolonizing criminology
• Hage-Hassan, Ihsan - MA - Exploring man-to-man/woman-to-woman (M2/W2) volunteers' experiences and perceptions of volunteering in corrections
• Macdonald, Mitchell Clark - PhD - Folk Theory in Organized Crime (not yet published online)
• Norton, Noah - MA - Perceptual deterrence, ambiguity, and group size in criminal decision making
• Robins, Emmet - MA - Impulsive clicks and phishing tricks: exploring Thoughtfully Reflective Decision Making (TRDM) and phishing vulnerability
• Turpin, Chantal Laurene - PhD - Forget about the sticks and stones, let's talk about the words: challenging the normalizing of sexual harassment in online video gaming

Fall

• Arvanitidis, Tania - PhD - "If you've got pride in your community, you're not f***ing your community up": A social-psychological retrospective of the 2011 Vancouver riot
• Dube-Mather, Taylor - MA - Is being a police officer fundamental for processing crime scenes?: Investigating civilianization in Canadian Forensic Identification Units
• Gonzalez, Ashleigh Rhea - MA - Grey zone enablers: The impact of Canada's Pacific Rim strategy on the Vancouver model of money laundering
• Todd, Hilary - PhD - Watching the watchmen: A multi-site contextual study of police officers' perceptions of citizen monitoring
• Scott, Marsha-Ann T. - PhD - (Re)forming the informal justice system: An exploratory look at the Jamaican garrison's brand of justice

Spring

• Kandola, Amarveer - MA - The role of South Asian family culture in South Asian gang involvement
• Peckford, Ashley Sara - MA - Distrust, conspiracy, and hostility: Using sentiment analysis to explore right-wing extremism in a Canadian subreddit
• Ueda, Momoko - PhD - Stable isotope analysis of known human tissues for forensic human geolocation

Summer

• Blakley, Taline - MA - Foster care and offending: Examining the mediating role of informal social controls
• Georgoulis, Hana - MA - After the murder: An analysis of sexual homicide cases where the body is naked and openly disposed
• Massingale, Kelley - MA - The rise and fall of NXIVM: A social network analysis
• Park, So Yoon - MA - Comparative studies of white-collar crime in Korea and Canada especially regarding MOVC (Multiple Ordinary Victims Crime)

Fall

• Bozanich, Emily - MA - Compliance with COVID-19 rules and regulations during the global pandemic 2020-2021
• Ivers, Aaren - PhD - Reconciliatory rhetoric and legislative genocide? The Cannabis Act as a case study in Canadian Indigenous policy
• Murphy, Joshua John - PhD - Taking the reins: An exploratory study of police leadership succession and succession planning in Canada
• Schmidt, Tayler - MA - Hungry for justice: Bobby Sands, the 1981 hunger strikers, and Gerry Adams
• Wong, Emma Melissa - MA - In the face of anti-Asian hate: Asian-Canadians' experiences of victimization, perceptions of the police and likelihood of reporting

Spring

• Backman, Kadance - MA - Discretionary decision-making in community based residential facilities: An exploratory study of the dynamics between halfway house staff and offenders on conditional release
• Reale, Kylie S. - PhD - An examination of sadism in sexual homicide: Are investigative awareness and the severity of sadistic behaviour distinctive features?

Summer

• Ahmed, Simran - MA - Validating the Spousal Assault Risk Assessment-Version 2 (SARA-V2) Guide with Indigenous men supervised by British Columbia Corrections
• Cheung, Jeremy - MA - Whoa, we're halfway there: Examining the spatial relationship between correctional halfway houses and property crime in Vancouver, BC
• Digney, Lucy Margaret - MA - Exploring the community court model in Vancouver: Participant profiles and patterns of offending
• Girn, Alysha - MA - Moving up the devil's ladder: Social networks and the timing of promotions in biker gangs
• Hanson, Kenzie - MA - The effects of gender on criminal justice sentencing decisions in cases of intimate partner homicide
• Knoechelmann, Maike - PhD - DSM-5 personality disorder terrorism risk assessment: A four-part validation study
• Ling, Ruby - MA - Femcels: Are they really the female equivalent of the incel?
• Liu, Shu Qi - MA - Actors and purchases on the cryptomarket ecosystem: Administrators, vendors, and products
• Sayyari, Persia - MA - Is age only a number? A comparative study of how state authorities respond to child soldiers
• Zhang, Yuxuan - MA - Uncovering threats from the surface web and darknet: A qualitative analysis of content relating to cybersecurity and critical infrastructure

Fall

• Paquet-Clouston, Masarah-Cynthia - PhD - The Role of Informal Workers in Online Economic Crime
• Ponce, Carlos - PhD - The criminal governance, geography, and network features of extortive offences in El Salvador

Spring

• Bains, Surena - MA - Shots fired: Unraveling the 2015 Surrey gang conflict using social network analysis
• Dawson, Krysta Lyndell - PhD - Capital gains: Examining the role of gang members personal networks and criminal careers

Summer

• Dawson, Stephanie Elizabeth - PhD - More than a riot: Understanding the role of the police in crowd disturbances and moving toward a theory of police behaviour
• King, Steff - MA - "Our hearts are not at rest": A critical look at the adequacy of Indigenous death investigations
• North Dawn - PhD - There is no going back: The case for starting over with conditional sentences
• Rosenthal, Richard A. - PhD - The Seattle Consent Decree: Excessive or effective force in police reform?
• Sandrin, Ryan - MA - Procedural justice and the police's use of personal protective equipment during the COVID-19 pandemic
• Warkentin, Noelle - MA - Identifying information useful for cyber-attacks against Canadian critical infrastructure in online discussion forums
• Wood, Rebecca - MA - Perceptions of risk in cases of intimate partner violence with a specific focus on gender and sexuality
• Yercich, Sarah - PhD - Fathers investing in fatherhood: A qualitative examination of contemporary fathering in fatherhood groups in Canada

Fall

• Harraway, Victoria - MA - Media representation of migrant crime: Hypotheticals, prominence, and migration pros and cons in select western newspaper coverage
• Kusz, Jennifer E. - PhD - "Obscenity has fallen to the wayside": The decline of the obscenity provisions amongst law enforcement professionals in Canada
• Lau, Stephanie - MA - The "I" in ICATs: A closer examination of interagency case assessment teams in British Columbia
• Louden, Rachelle - MA - Information trolls vs. democracy: An examination of fake news content delivered during the 2019 Canadian federal election and the generation of information warfare
• Padda, Karmvir K. - MA - Foreign interference in U.S. politics: An examination of "fake news" content on social media
• Strange, Sarah-May - MA - Speaking in stolen voices: Impersonated propaganda and use of Queer and Muslim identities by the Internet Research Agency
• Zdjelar, Vanja - MA - Alone together: Exploring community on an incel forum