<p> This research paper allows a comparison of attitudes towards
two types of residential group homes in three cities. The
main objective of the study is to examine variation in
attitudes among the three cities, Toronto~ Ottawa and
London. The second objective is to determine whether attitudes
differ by type of facility, the mental health facility
which serves psychiatric patients and the correctional
facility which serves criminal offenders. Information for
the study was obtained from a questionnaire conducted by the
Canadian Training Institute (CTI) in 1983. Respondents were
asked to indicate their attitudes towards the mental health
and correctional facility in terms of their impacts on the
neighbourhood and their desirability at different distances
to home. Sample characteristics of the three cities were
evaluated to test the effects of demographic variables on
attitudes. The results show that attitudes vary by city
with the London sample expressing the most supportive attitude
and the Ottawa sample, the least supportive. The
level of opposition to the correctional facility is much
greater for all facility impacts, distance locations and for
each of the three city samples, Toronto, Ottawa and London. </p> / Thesis / Bachelor of Arts (BA)
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:mcmaster.ca/oai:macsphere.mcmaster.ca:11375/20591 |
| Date | 04 1900 |
| Creators | Varrasso, Sandra |
| Contributors | Taylor, S. M., Geography |
| Source Sets | McMaster University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
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