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Le but de cette étude est d'évaluer l'évolution de la présence des caractéristiques de la pornographie tant revendiqueés par les féministes radicales, caractéristiques fondées sur la prémisse que la pornographie est le moyen fondamental de subordination des femmes. Une analyse quantitative du contenu manifeste nous a permis de constater que Hustler présente une plus grande diversité de photographies au fil des ans. Le nombre de modèles et de scènes présentées augmente de façon significative dans les années '90, offrant ainsi plus de diversité aux lecteurs. Une analyse qualitative du contenu latent nous a aidées à identifier et définir les caractéristiques principales du matériel suite à l'étude de six numéros de la revue. Ces dernières ne sont pas celles qu'avaient dénoncé les féministes concevant la pornographie comme violence. Certains éléments de leur définition de la pornographie s'y retrouvent, mais ont en effet une infime présence dans la revue Hustler, elle qui à l'époque avait tant été critiquée par les féministes. Nous avons développé sur les thèmes suivant: le caractère explicite de Hustler, la réification, la subordination, la violence, les femmes présentées comme des "prostituées", Hustler et les féministes face à face et le lecteur de Hustler. Une étude de quatre numéros supplémentaires nous a permis de confirmer les résultats trouvés dans notre première analyse. Nous avons pu conclure que la dénonciation féministe radicale était peu justifiée en ce qui a trait à la revue Hustler. De plus, nous avons noté que le contenu de ce dernier changeait peu à travers le temps et qu'il ciblait un public spécifique est principalement masculin. D'un autre côte, la revue Hustler ouvre le discours sur la sexualité. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)

This thesis is intended to further the critical race theory goal of documenting the narratives of racially subjugated populations, particularly Blacks. It presents and critically engages with the subject of race and its relationship to imprisonment and reintegration by putting forward the stories of Black male ex-prisoners who have experienced a term of incarceration in a Canadian federal penitentiary. The author uses a critical race lens in order to examine the role of race in the lives of Black ex-prisoners. In addition, she puts forward a plea for academic and institutional discourses to place the experiential knowledge of these individuals at the forefront of criminological research. Critical criminology theories that emphasize the importance of ethnographic data and epistemological assumptions that have challenged Eurocentric scholarship, which overlooks the consequences of racial inequality, guide the author's findings. As such, the primary goal of this research is to provide an arena for Black male ex-prisoners to express their realities as a racialized group who have historically been excluded from Canadian academe.

School violence is an issue currently generating much policy and research attention. It has become a serious concern, not only because of its damaging effects but also because, it is linked to later anti-social and criminal behaviour. Typically, responses to school violence fall into three categories. This thesis explores the feasibility of restorative practices in Canadian schools that have zero tolerance policies towards violence. Hirschi's social bonding theory (1969) is used to support arguments for the need to shift from current punishment orientated responses to more restorative responses. In this inductive case study analysis of an Ontario secondary school it is observed that a peaceful/restorative culture can thrive, in conjunction with both restorative processes and zero tolerance policy.

This study explored the types of services, particularly gender-specific services, available for "at-risk" and criminalized young women. The qualitative methodology entailed interviews with youth service providers in community-based programs in Ottawa, Canada. The findings of this study support the feminist research on female youth crime, specifically the presence of common themes found throughout many of these young women's lives such as violence, family conflict/fragmentation, institutionalization, residential instability/homelessness, drug and alcohol use issues, academic disruption/failure, and health issues. However, the manner in which these participants approached their work with young women often differed depending on their own understandings of these issues. Nevertheless, all of the participants noted various barriers in the ability of such community initiatives in delivering services to youths. Drawing broadly upon feminist perspectives on female delinquency, the analysis of this study focuses on how programs and services provided to "at-risk" and criminalized young women reflected their realities.

Media attention surrounding violence in schools has increased in recent years. As a result, police presence has become common in many schools, especially in urban centers. While the presence of these officers is meant to have positive effects on students' behaviour and attitudes toward the rules of school and society, it is unclear if this is the case. This study examines the perceptions that teachers and staff have of School Resource Officers in their school environment, and what, if any, differences exist between school personnel's perceptions of SROs and other critical perceptions of police in school. Utilizing a mixed methods approach to data collection, this study examines the police-school relationship in two schools in a large urban area. This study could contribute to the field of education by adding to the scant body of literature currently existing on the topic of police in Canadian schools.

The regimes of truth within society, or those types of discourse accepted and made to function as true by truth-generating apparatuses, determine which events are classified as genocide and the types of evidence that are accepted as proof that a genocide has occurred. Genocide denial can be seen as an attempt to resist a regime of truth by putting forth an alternative analysis of a particular situation. Genocide deniers promote their discourse of denial as legitimate, scholarly efforts at historical revision with the intention of having another version of the truth exposed. Most research on genocide denial has focused primarily on the Holocaust, international debates to legislate genocide denial and the motivations and arguments used to deny genocide. This thesis qualitatively and thematically analyzes sixteen websites and twenty-eight documents to investigate the use of the Internet to produce and circulate discourses questioning the Armenian and Rwandan genocides. It argues that the Internet formulates a space and community in which genocide denial discourse is created, legitimized and disseminated. Then, through a vocabulary of motives framework, this thesis analyzes the logic of denial discourse to identify them as discursive strategies of truth production and to identify the ideological roots of denial. It is found that in Turkey's case, denial is rooted in a sense of collective victimization and nationalism and its presence on the Internet demonstrates the existence of a regime of truth denying the Armenian genocide. For Rwanda, denial is call for the recognition of victim suffering and for justice in revealing an alternative discourse that has been subjugated to the accepted history of the genocide.