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	Taylor Angeli Email: tangeli@uoguelph.ca Degree Type: Major Paper Research Interests: The lasting effects of the criminal justice system, with a focus on youth crime, mental heal issues, and policy.
	Jessica Barbosa Email: barbosaj@uoguelph.ca Degree Type: Thesis Research Interest: Safeguards against police conduct, police accountability and oversight in Toronto, and the attitudes of Judges in these cases.
	Ella Bender Email: ebender@uoguelph.ca Degree Type: Course-based Research Interest: the association between youth drug use and recidivism, and whether drug related extrajudicial measures (e.g., addiction counselling) ordered by the court are effective in reducing recidivism analyzing the behaviour and patterns of mass murderers and serial killers
	Ciara Boyd Email: boydc@uoguelph.ca Degree Type: Thesis Research Interest: Key differences in the motivational factors for mass killings in Canada and the United States.
	Jordie Brown Email: jbrown64@uoguelph.ca Degree Type: Course-based Research Interest: The availability and impact of sex trafficking education and awareness at establishments where recruitment and exploitation are most likely to occur.
	Jamie-Lee Cracknell-Bossenberry Email: jbossenb@uoguelph.ca Degree Type: Thesis Research Interest: Human trafficking, community-oriented policing.
	Jacob Dubeau Email: jdubeau@uoguelph.ca Degree Type: Course-Based Research Interest: Effectiveness of situation tables as a form of crime prevention, with a focus on the Gateway Hub in North Bay.
	Kelly Hatt Email: khatt@uoguelph.ca Degree Type: Thesis Research Interest: The effect of case precedents and the role of the prosecution and police when determining the admissibility of confessions in Mr. Big operations.
	Taranpreet Heer Email: heert@uoguelph.ca Degree Type: Major Paper Research Interest: Racism, racial profiling, and more specifically, the border crossing experiences of visible minorities in a post 9/11 context.
	Kona Keast-O'Donovan Email: kkeastod@uoguelph.ca Degree Type: Course-Based Research Interest: The factors of decision making for those who repeatedly reoffend, reoffend while escalating the severity of their crimes, or remain dormant and comply with societal norms from that point forward.
	Emma Kelly Email: ckelly08@uoguelph.ca Degree Type: Major Paper Research Interest: LGBTQ+ individuals’ experiences of violent victimization.
	Annalise Kennedy Email: akenne13@uoguelph.ca Degree Type: Research Interest: reforming the prison system in Canada; wrongful convictions; Violence against women and prevention efforts
	Meghan Machado Email: machadom@uoguelph.ca Degree Type: Thesis Research Interest: Corrections and Canadian drug policies, particularly harm reduction approaches available in society and how they can be applied to offenders serving sentences within Canada’s criminal justice system.
	Lindsay Maharaj Email: lmahar01@uoguelph.ca Degree Type: Major Paper Research Interest: The credibility of undercover police operations such as Mr. Big operations and how such extremities of coercion could potentially abuse rights.
	Danielle McNabb Email: dmcnabb@uoguelph.ca Degree Type: Thesis Research Interest: The justice gap between legislative reform in sexual assault cases, and continued underreporting and low rates of conviction.
	Becky McRae Email: bmcrae01@uoguelph.ca Degree Type: Thesis Research Interest: The effect juvenile parole conditions have on the reintegration process and how it can impact the rate of recidivism for young offenders.
	Julio Mejia Email: jmejia@uoguelph.ca Degree Type: Thesis Research Interest: private-public collaboration as a possible public policy tool that could contribute to the security deficiency of Colombia.
	Deanna Mikkelsen Email: mikkelsd@uoguelph.ca Degree Type: Course-based Research Interest: criminal justice system and the corresponding effect on its personnel / how public policy is questioned or changed as a result relationship between North American police forces and gender.
	Kathryn Nairne Email: knairne@uoguelph.ca Degree Type: Major Paper Research Interest: How the jury selection process promotes racial bias through the utilization of peremptory challenges.
	Jenaya Nixon Email: nixonj@uoguelph.ca Degree Type: Thesis Research Interest: The potential discrepancies between bail legislation and reform and the reality of bail, accused peoples’ experiences of bail, and long-term trends.
	Michaela Pollon Email: mpollon@uoguelph.ca Degree Type: Major Paper Research Interest: Gendered/racialized violence and the impact of sexual assault myths on victimization in sexual assault proceedings within the criminal justice system.
	Aleeyah Samuels Email: samuelsa@uoguelph.ca Degree Type: Thesis Research Interest: How young offenders have been sentenced, and whether the type of sentencing has influenced recidivism rates.
	Niya Shrestha Email: nshres17@guelphhumber.ca Degree type: Thesis Research interest: Cyber crime, specifically technology-facilitated sexual violence.
	Melania Soudouk Email: msoudouk@uoguelph.ca Degree Type: Major Paper Research Interest: the discernment of sexual assault testimony as valid evidence in the courtroom based on factors such as race, sex, and age, etc.
	Sabrina Sousa Email: ssousa@uoguelph.ca Degree Type: Major Paper Research Interest: Wrongful convictions & false confessions, as well as the societal and criminal justice system response to violence against women.
	Charlotte Tenszen Email: ctenszen@uoguelph.ca Degree Type: Course-Based Research Interest: The effects of gender politics and the politics of sexuality on Canada’s criminal justice policies.
	Dalia Zahreddine Email: dzahredd@uoguelph.ca Degree Type: Course-based Research Interest: The impact of School Resource Officers on student trust in the police.
	Angelika Zecha Email: azecha@uoguelph.ca Degree Type: Thesis Research Interest: Intimate partner violence victimization and the Canadian criminal justice system’s response to cases of intimate partner violence.

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