VictorJuiz/thesis huggingface dataset:
The relationship between the victimization history and sexual offences of male adolescent sexual offenders: a focus on sexual victimization, and sexual intrusiveness and force in offences
Keywords: Juvenile delinquents
Child sexual abuse
Sex crimes
Juvenile delinquents, Abuse of
Male sexual abuse victims

The present study was focused on exploring the relationship between the prior victimization experiences and subsequent sexual offences of male adolescent sexual offenders. A specific focus was included regarding the relationship between various characteristics of prior sexual victimization and both penetration and physical force in sexual offences. A total of 180 male participants ranging in age from 12 to 19 were included in this study. A series of chi-square analyses was employed to investigate the relationship between various victimization characteristics and two specific sexual offence variables of interest: Penetration and Physical Force. A relationship was discovered between prior sexual abuse and both penetration and physical force in offences, prior physical abuse and physical force in offences, prior emotional abuse and penetration in offences, and the duration of sexual victimization and physical force in offences. In addition, the relationships between specific sexual acts in the victimization and offences were investigated with significant relationships discovered for vaginal penetration in victimization and offending and anal/vaginal penetration in victimization and offending. Findings also indicated that two or more types of prior victimization might be of importance in male adolescents' commission of intrusive and forceful sexual offences, and that the sexual offences that are committed by male adolescents can be highly intrusive, forceful, and comprised of a variety of sexual acts. A series of exploratory analyses using the ERASOR 2.0 suggested that prior sexual victimization, physical victimization, and neglect might be important in clinicians' ratings of sexual offence recidivism. It was suggested that the results of this investigation are consistent with a social learning/cognitive approach. Future directions were recommended regarding the use of posttreatment information rather than pretreatment information in investigations regarding male adolescent sexual offenders' offence characteristics. It was also indicated that, given both the limitations and the findings of the present investigation, further exploration is necessary regarding both the specificity of the victim-to-victimizer phenomenon and the sexual intrusiveness and forcefulness involved in the sexual offences committed by previously victimized male adolescent sexual offenders.
The rejection of endocrine disrupting and pharmaceutically active compounds by membrane filtration
Keywords: Environmental engineering

This research examined the rejection of multiple endocrine disrupting compounds (EDCs) and pharmaceutically active compounds (PhACs) by membranes from various water matrices including laboratory-grade water, laboratory-prepared waters, Lake Ontario water and membrane bioreactor (MBR) effluent. The overall objective was to examine rejection as a function of compound properties, membrane properties and feed water characteristics in order to gain a better understanding of rejection mechanisms.
Evaluating user preferences for public transit technologies in the Greater Toronto Area
Keywords: Local transit, Public opinion
Local transit, Ontario
Consumers' preferences, Ontario

There are many different factors that affect the ridership potential of public transit technologies, many of which are difficult to quantify. Some of these effects include reliability, comfort, safety, and accessibility. In addition to these effects, it is often hypothesized that travelers have inherent preferences for certain public transit technologies independent of their actual service characteristics. In light of these uncertainties, the goal of this research is to quantify these technology preferences and to discover whether there are modal biases in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) that are independent from mode level of service characteristics. This study uses travel survey data to build discrete choice models incorporating transit technology specific variables to quantify existing preferences in the GTA. The results show that a preference for rail (Subway and Streetcar) exists, but the magnitude of this effect cannot be quantified due to difficulties isolating the technology preference from other service characteristics.
Achieving government, community and institutional goals through the measurement of performance: accountability and performance indicators in Ontario colleges and universities
Keywords: Universities and colleges, Evaluation
Universities and colleges, Ontario
Educational accountability, Ontario
Higher education and state, Ontario

In 1998, the Ontario government established performance indicators for its publicly funded colleges and universities to both assess performance and distribute part of the public funds allocated to higher education. This initiative was consistent with the actions of governments throughout the world and has significance for both the systems of higher education and the individual institutions wherever it is in place. This study examined several issues including government motivation for measuring the performance of postsecondary institutions; a critical analysis of the Ontario accountability framework against both public policy goals for postsecondary education and established standards and criteria for performance measurement systems; perceptions of stakeholders regarding public goals and the efficacy of the current accountability system; and recommendations for changes to the Ontario performance indicator system based on research results. The study found that the perceptions of stakeholders regarding government goals for postsecondary education were reasonably consistent with those found in public documents. However, the lack of a clear statement of government goals, together with some misalignment of perceived goals and those the current performance indicators appear to be measuring, caused confusion and could also result in inappropriate steering effects on the behaviour of colleges and universities. The study also found that the current Ontario accountability framework was only moderately consistent with the standards and criteria for postsecondary performance indicators established in the literature. Other significant findings of the study include differences in perceived goals for colleges and universities but similar indicators to measure performance, the lack of provision for mission-related institutional goals contrary to recommendations in the literature, and that transferability from college to university, a clearly stated goal of the government, is neither measured nor rewarded by performance funding. The study relied on a review of government documents and related literature, and the results of a survey of stakeholders regarding government goals for postsecondary education, the relevance and reliability of the current performance indicators for measuring performance and influencing funding, and identification of other indicators relevant to assess the performance of Ontario colleges and universities. Recommendations for changes to the system and suggestions for future research are included.
Factors affecting the adoption of alternative programs in publicly-funded school boards
Keywords: Alternative education, Ontario
School boards, Ontario
School choice, Ontario

Four cases were studied in which proposals for alternative programs were made to publicly-funded school boards in Ontario. A review of the school choice and innovation adoption literature indicated that the decision to accept/reject a proposal was influenced by the following themes: Context, Nature of the School Board, Characteristics of the Advocates, and Nature of the Program. My hypothesis was that an alternative program requires an internal advocate with clout and must not challenge sacred roles and relationships. I concluded that the decision to accept or reject the proposals was most influenced by factors related to: Context, Nature of Program and Characteristics of Advocates. Of the ten factors within the Nature of Program theme, only one was found to be clearly significant: challenges to roles and relationships. Within the Characteristics of Advocates theme, six factors were found to be significant. The relative importance of the three themes was not determined.
Early Archaic
Keywords: Archaeology, Canada

In this study, I describe the lithic reduction sequence from a series of archaeological assemblages recovered from around the west end of Lake Ontario. All these assemblages were recovered in association with variants of the Kirk Corner-notched projectile point type and so these are inferred to represent debris produced during a single technological horizon from the Early Archaic of the region. These assemblages appear to represent debris and tools discarded during manufacture and/or reworking. These types of deposits can therefore be used to analyse the technological system of manufacture.
Facing intolerance: Toronto black university students speak on race, racism and in(e)(i)quity
Keywords: Racism, Ontario
Racism in education, Ontario
College students, Black, Attitudes
College students, Black, Ontario
Identity (Psychology)

This thesis examines the experiences of 12 young Black women and men in a hostile tertiary educational environment in Toronto. I critically analyze the impact of racism and racial discrimination on the everyday lives of the Black students, and the fact of schools and university campuses as seemingly uncontested sites for the reproduction of racist power relations and even outright hatred. This is an ethnographic study that utilizes an anti-racist, Black feminist perspective---the perspective of the "strong-willed resister" (Collins, 2000, p.98)---able to locate the racialised participants of this study at the centre of the research as "producers of knowledge and not merely consumer". What is palpable from the students' narratives, presented in their own words, is the need for ongoing critique and confrontation of racial oppression in Canadian society. The findings of this study provide clear evidence of the fact that despite the oppressive nature of Black life, the structured oppression that Black people face from early childhood in Canadian society, many still manage to succeed in the education system and become productive citizens contributing to overall societal development. Black women and men have managed and continue to manage to do intellectual work at all levels of society and many do this with a fierce commitment to "racial uplift". In fact, the desire to be engaged in self-reflection, self-improvement and community development work evidenced in the statements made by several of the young people interviewed for this study is commendable in view of the various economic and social oppressive forces they face in their own lives. The young people are empowered to form coalitions with others in and outside their particular communities. They confirm the need for support from academic institutions, governments, community agencies and families to make it possible that they learn their histories so as to gain the knowledge and language to contest the racist attacks that are fully part of the culture of their everyday and which irrefutably permeates every aspect of Canadian society.
Vertical transfer of training: Can one person make a difference?
Keywords: Personnel management
Organizational behavior
Dissertations, Academic, Canada

The transfer of training literature has focused primarily on the individual as the unit of analysis. The question of whether training an individual influences a group's performance has yet to be investigated empirically. In the present study, participants (n = 275) were randomly assigned to groups (k = 55) of five. Individuals were then randomly selected from those groups such that none, one, three, or all five members of the group participated in training on effective ways to select a job candidate. The extent to which the knowledge acquired by one or more individuals was used by the group in making a selection decision was evaluated. Vertical transfer occurred according to a negatively accelerating curve. As the number of people trained increased beyond three, the amount of influence exerted by the fifth individual decreased. Extroversion moderated the relationship between training an individual and vertical transfer. If the one individual who was trained was an extrovert, vertical transfer increased. Collective efficacy mediated the relationship between training one or more individuals and a group's performance.
Reading, writing and unheard voices: a history of literacy education in Canada, 1880-1950
Keywords: Literacy, Study and teaching
Literacy, Canada
Literacy, History
Literacy, Canada
Educational equalization, History
Educational equalization, Canada

This thesis explores the history of Canadian literacy education from 1880 to 1950. A central problem is why there was a need for adult literacy education in the decades after free, public elementary education expanded throughout much of Canada. Geography, finances, teacher quality, immigration and ethnicity, and other factors influenced why attendance and literacy rates were often low. Autobiographies, journals and other first-person writings from this period illustrate popular attitudes toward reading, writing, schooling and print culture. A critical analysis of Frontier College specifically reveals some of the tensions between the literacy organization's progressive and conservative elements. It also suggests some of the ways in which literacy education was used to control and silence workers. Nonetheless, the proliferation of first-person writings by diverse Canadians indicates that growing access to school and literacy offered more people a voice with which to record their own histories.
A fatherly eye: two Indian agents on Georgian Bay, 1918-1939
Keywords: Indians of North America, History
Indians of North America, Canada
Indians of North America, Government relations
Indians of North America, Canada

This thesis examines the implementation of federal Indian policy on the local level and the control exercised by officials of the Indian Department over Native individuals and communities. It does so by analyzing the activities and approaches of two Indian agents in the Georgian Bay area between 1918 and 1939: Robert J. Lewis of the Manitowaning agency on Manitoulin Island, and John M. Daly of the Parry Sound agency on the eastern shore of Georgian Bay. By comparing and contrasting the activities of these two men, the dissertation reveals the ways in which policies were applied and enforced. The overriding theme is the contest for power which dominated the interaction between Native people and field officials. Drawing on Michel Foucault's insights into power relations, the dissertation explores the strategic manoeuvring in which agents and their aboriginal clients engaged in order to exercise power. Many Native people challenged the authority of the agents, asserting their own vision of individual and community autonomy. They also addressed issues of treaty rights, aboriginal fishing and hunting rights, and control over band funds and resources. Field officials were often able to block aboriginal attempts to assert greater autonomy and to organize politically against the Department of Indian Affairs. On the other hand, the agents were limited in their capacity to act when they lacked the backing of headquarters. The dissertation also examines the role of Indian agents in providing assistance to their clients and mediating between reserve communities and the outside world. Agents sometimes acted as advocates of Native interests, both in interpersonal disputes and through efforts to ensure limited Native access to fish and game. In addition, Indian agents dispensed social services, largely in the form of financial assistance. The advocacy and assistance which the agents could provide were the object of power negotiations with Native people, in which the latter sought to derive benefit from the power of the field officials. At the same time, the authority of field officials was enhanced by their power to supply aid and intervene on their clients' behalf.
Ten years after: stories of teacher development
Keywords: Teaching
Teachers, Training of
Classroom management
Educational innovations

This is a story not only of their retention but also of the growth of seven teachers' knowledge of the practical art of teaching from 1992--2002. I present my arts-based narrative inquiry in terms of five stories of teacher development: a story of how I came to the topic of teacher development; a story of teacher education literature; a story of six of my colleagues and how the research was conducted; a story of conversations, wherein we seven teachers respond to the experience of development in our own words; and finally a story comparing the modern story of teacher development with our personal stories and both classical and popular myths. The major finding of the study is that genuine or authentic teacher development was not acknowledged as an outcome of institutional professional development initiatives over a ten year period. The professional development of the seven teachers was shown rather to consist of highly personalized, often unanticipated, and ongoing processes. Their development was shown to occur mainly in non-formal and non-institutional settings. Modernist teacher education programs were shown, in contrast, to be limited in their usefulness for planning, conducting, and explaining personally relevant teacher development. By drawing upon an arts-based narrative framework, the mythic significances of the teachers' experiences were recognized and contrasted with the underlying societal myths implicit in modern mass education and teacher education programs. Asynchronous Computer Mediated Communication (ACMC) was used as a research tool for reflective journalling. ACMC in the form of world wide web logs promoted our conversational exchanges. This inquiry is itself an example of self-authored collaborative development and the enriched understanding of teaching obtained by seven teachers.
Looking in the mirror, looking in the curriculum: the perpetuation of Eurocentric images
Keywords: Indigenous peoples, Social conditions
Indigenous peoples, Canada
Indigenous peoples, Cultural assimilation
Indigenous peoples, Canada
Indigenous peoples, Education
Indigenous peoples, Canada
Indigenous peoples, Colonies
Indigenous peoples, Great Britain
Imperialism
Eurocentrism, Canada

This thesis will explore, through a lens of sociology and education, the ongoing results of the attempted destruction of Native peoples of North America through assimilation and genocide. It will examine the impact of white appropriation of Native imagery in the residential school system and the current Ontario curriculum. Using an anti-racist approach this thesis will investigate the continuing presence of colonial mindset in our society, pointing out the problems of not creating a holistic learning environment where students are learners, and teachers act as guides. It will be argued that resistance to Eurocentric images involve work on many fronts, from analysis of cultural, political and economic practices, globally and locally, to active work in classroom settings. Positive images put forward by Native activists, authors, storytellers and educators, thus demonstrating the re-emergence of traditional leadership patterns among Aboriginals, will contribute to the rebuilding of Native people's sense of autonomy.
The CRTC's 2004 incentive scheme for Canadian English-language television drama: a triumph of rhetoric over reason in policy implementation
Keywords: Television plays, Canadian
Television programs, Law and legislation
Television programs, Canada

This paper analyzes the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunication Commission's ("CRTC") 2004 incentive program to increase the production of, the viewing to, and the expenditures on, high quality, original, English-language Canadian drama programming on Canadian private television. After exploring the economic, structural, technological and legal factors that militate against the success of English-language Canadian drama, this paper explores the history of regulatory measures implemented to support Canadian television drama and the legislated policy imperatives which have been relied upon to sustain them. The CRTC's 2004 incentive scheme is then described and critiqued, ultimately revealing that the program's practical shortcomings and its weak policy justifications will likely serve to undermine its success in achieving its stated goals.
"Bringing international criminal law home": the normative contribution of the international criminal court treaty regime
Keywords: International criminal courts
International crimes

This thesis explores the contribution of the newly established International Criminal Court (ICC) treaty regime in the pursuit of universal international criminal accountability. It argues that in order to make international criminal law effective, domestic Courts or other judicial bodies must be able to secure the presence of the accused to stand trial. However, this thesis demonstrates that achieving the voluntary compliance of States with requests for the surrender of an indicted individual has often been difficult. In response to this problem, this thesis proposes that a voluntarist system, such as the ICC treaty regime, has the potential to help. This is because the international treaty regime reflects a shared commitment by States to key norms of international criminal law, and has a high degree of legitimacy. This thesis argues that the ICC treaty regime offers the best chance for achieving widespread compliance with the "surrender norm," and for "bringing international criminal law home."