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Contributors: Acting Together (AT-CURA) (Author), Gira Bhatt (Author)
Author Keywords: gang prevention, Acting Together (AT-CURA), youth services for, South Asian Community Coalition Against Youth Violence (SACCAYV)
Abstract: Text of article published online in the Voice newspaper about a community event “Youth Violence and Family Relationships” hosted by the South Asian Community Coalition Against Youth Violence (SACCAYV) on October 9, 2014, in collaboration with KPU's Acting Together research project (AT-CURA).
Collection: info:fedora/kora:atcura
Coordinates: 49.183333, -122.85000000000002

Contributors: Christopher Howell (author)
Author Keywords: anarchism, communal anarchism, authoritarianism, Canadian state, coercion, cohesion, community, KPU Critical Criminology Working Group
Abstract: Anarchism is a radical social-political theory that aims to deconstruct the State in order to empower every one; empower by granting liberty and equality. An old saying of Bakunin is paraphrased, “equality without liberty is tyranny, liberty without equality is gross injustice” (Shantz, 2013)....
Collection: info:fedora/kora:studentwork

Contributors: Gira Bhatt (author), Roger Tweed (author), Steve Dooley (author), Jodi Viljoen (author), Kevin Douglas (author), Nathalie Gagnon (author), Kashmir Besla (author)
Author Keywords: Adolescence, Gender differences, personality, Character Strengths, adolescents - attitudes, Violence
Abstract: Most gang-involved youth in Canada are predominantly males (94%) and between the age of 16 and 18 (Youth Gangs in Canada, 2007). However, young adolescent girls are now increasingly seen among youth gangs (Girls, Gangs, and Sexual Exploitation in British Columbia, 2010). Within the strength-based...
Collection: info:fedora/kora:atcura
Coordinates: 49.183333, -122.85000000000002

Contributors: Tara L. S. Joubert (Author), Charmaine Perkins (Author)
Author Keywords: content analysis, qualitative research, Aboriginal, women, Canadian, online news, missing, murdered, national inquiry, news articles, media representations, Indigenous, First Nations
Abstract: Over the past four years, the call for a national inquiry on missing and murdered Aboriginal women in Canada has grown in momentum. After several highly publicized murders and the recent release of a Royal Canadian Mounted Police report, the topic of missing and murdered Aboriginal women has...
Collection: info:fedora/kora:studentwork
Coordinates: 49.1329884, -122.87128530000001

Contributors: Kwantlen Polytechnic University Department of Criminology (Degree granting institution), Justine Nelson (author)
Author Keywords: climate change, green criminology, environmental activism, denial, British Columbia
Abstract: Our society is in collective denial about the extreme threat that climate change presents to the future of our world. Capitalism creates a culture that is based on the exploitation of people and the earth for profit, and as citizens living within this culture we use denial to shield ourselves...
Collection: info:fedora/kora:theses

Contributors: Natalie (Tally) Wade (author), Alice Macpherson (author)
Author Keywords: diversity, emergency communication, public safety, active listening, non-verbal communication, conflict management
Abstract: The Human Behaviour I Workbook for Public Safety Communicators is specifically written to assist trainees in the field of Public Safety Communications learn inclusive techniques for diverse audiences, including the elderly, young children, the mentally, and emotionally disadvantaged, as well as...
Collection: info:fedora/kora:publications
Coordinates: 49.1016121, -122.72071240000002

Contributors: Samuel Jingfors (Author), Gloria Lazzano (Author), Keiron McConnell (Author)
Author Keywords: crime classification, gangs, Canada, British Columbia, targeted, organized crime, grow-op, drugs, drug-trade, killed, murder, homicide
Abstract: Numerous research studies conducted in the past decade have focused on gangs and gang violence. The results from these studies have assisted law enforcement agencies in developing policies and practices to address gang-related homicides in the community. However, academics and police agencies...
Collection: info:fedora/kora:publications
Coordinates: 49.133264, -122.8710534

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