Browsing Department of Sociology Graduate Theses by Author "Wood, David Murakami"

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In The Mounties We Trust: A Study of Royal Canadian Mounted Police Accountability

Wettlaufer, Stephen (2011-07-06)

Police and Canadian citizens often clash during protests sometimes resulting in violent outcomes. Due to the nature of those altercations, there are few other events that require oversight more than the way police clash ...
The New Political Economy of Policing: an Exploration of the Militarization of Policing in the United States

Pereira, Colby (2015-09-14)

Public perceptions of policing in the United States have drastically shifted in the last decade as images of police brutality have dominated the media. This thesis asks whether or not the militarization of policing in the ...
Opinions of Surveillance in the Pre-Snowden Era: A Three-Country Comparative Analysis

Lockrey, William (2014-10-06)

The field of surveillance studies as a whole is sorely lacking empirical data. This thesis includes and analyzes data of public opinions of surveillance across the United States of America, Canada, and the United Kingdom. ...