Shahid Alvi

• Doctor of Philosophy
• Professor at University of Ontario Institute of Technology

Little is known about the lived experiences of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgendered and Queer (LGBTQ) Muslims living in Canada. Using an intersectional theoretical perspective and a qualitative methodology, this paper examines key themes emerging in the stories of six LGBTQ Muslim women and men living in Canada. The key themes emerging in this res...

Despite the emerging presence of South Asian elderly population in Canada, there continues to be a paucity of research concerning the immigration and acculturation experiences of these marginalized elderly populations and their quality of life. This research builds knowledge of the quality of life experiences faced by South Asian elderly immigrant...

PurposeThis paper addresses the lack of conceptual and theoretical consensus around cyber-bullying and problems associated with over-reliance on mainstream criminological thinking to explain this phenomenon. Methodology/approachThe paper offers a critical criminological perspective on cyber-bullying encouraging scholars to engage with fundamental c...

Little research has been conducted to distinguish the unique experiences of specific groups of interpersonal violence victims. This is especially true in the case of battered Muslim immigrant women in the United States. This article examines battered Muslim immigrant women's experiences with intimate partner violence and their experiences with the...

Current concerns around cyber-bullying emphasize child-victims and have prompted calls for understanding and reaction to an alleged new type of child-offender. Though there is little doubt that cyber-bullying is a phenomenon with potential for real harm, there remain a number of critical gaps in the cyber-bullying literature. This article has two p...

This chapter examines some important aspects of what we know about the quality and quantity of youth crime. One of the key arguments is that there are severe limitations associated with official sources of data for certain types of crimes, thus reducing our confidence in fully understanding the nature and level of youth crime in Canada. Keeping the...

This chapter outlines some of the policy options that might be considered if Canada is to develop a more equitable and effective youth justice system. In keeping with the arguments advanced earlier, most of these policy options focus on social institutions and relationships in addition to criminal justice system ones. As such, the chapter points to...

This chapter provides a historical summary of key legislation supporting societal responses to youth crime in Canada. It highlights the changing nature of perceptions of youth over time, and the contemporary emphasis on the rights of society and individual responsibility. Specifically, the history of youth crime legislation in Canada reflects a gra...

People do not exist in a vacuum. Our social environment conditions our behaviour by setting limits on our life chances. Put differently, not everyone is born into the same social circumstances, and this inequality of condition sets the boundaries within which people make their lives. If we are to understand the status and behaviour, “good or bad”,...

The purpose of this study was to explore the influence of macro-level factors on immigrant and non-immigrant women's mental health status in a Canadian context. This study was part of a larger study examining women's quality of life in south eastern Ontario. Using survey research methods, data were collected through face-to-face interviews with 91...

Ironically, while scholars and policy-makers have long referred to hate crime as a ‘message crime’, the assumption that those beyond the immediate victim are likewise intimidated by the violence has gone untested. Grounded in a recent study of the community impacts of hate crime, we offer some insights into these in terrorem effects of hate crime....

Purpose This paper seeks to examine the impact of information communication technology on the learning process and on the profession of teaching. Design/methodology/approach The paper reviews arguments for and against the use of technology in the classroom and draws on student comments on technology use in the classroom. Findings The paper proble...

It is well known that the pathways to homelessness for young people are embedded in often ongoing negative childhood experiences. Many of these experiences are rooted in multiple and intersecting problems including, but not limited to: family conflict, abuse, addictions, and mental health issues. The authors draw upon qualitative interviews conduct...

The concept of hegemonic masculinity is a useful tool for critiquing and understanding narrow cultural constructions of masculinity, the diversity of men's real experiences, and the trajectory of power relations among men. One important tenet of the concept is that masculinities are often constructed, maintained, and restructured according to parti...

Research suggests that maintaining good physical and mental health helps prevent some women from being abused by their male partners, and that social support is inversely related to male-to-female vic- timization. This study examined the role of mental and physical health and two forms of social sup- port (all of which we define as elements of resi...

Data collected at Canadian public housing estates in eastern Ontario are used here to analyze two hypotheses. Overall these women report more violence than do otherwise situated women in other general surveys. More specifically, complex theoretical models were designed to generate two hypotheses for further analysis: First, that separated/divorced...

Aucune étude nord‐américaine n'a examiné de façon systé'matique l'importance des divers types degressions sexuelles, notamment le harcèlement sexuel et racial, que subissent les femmes dans les logements sociaux. Les logements sociaux et les rues des quartiers pauvres du centre‐ville sont les endroits typiques où se jouent les relations de force en...

This report presents quantitative and qualitative information collected from a study of homelessness that was a joint initiative between the University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Faculty of Criminology, Justice and Policy Studies (UOIT) and the Durham Advisory Committee on Homelessness (DACH) in 2007. The intent of this study was to gather...

Young adults were the only age group to defy the downward trend in cigarette use seen in the 1980s and 1990s. To help explain this phenomenon, we conducted an exploratory study to examine the association between the sociocultural contexts of young adults' everyday lives and their smoking attitudes and behaviors. "Context" was operationalized by (a)...

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In recent years “welfare reform” has become a vehicle for many neo-conservative social commentators to invoke marriage vows as a cure for poverty and the abuse of poor women. Their basic claim is that cohabiting relationships are not only more violent than marriages, but that married couples are happier, healthier, and wealthier than cohabiting one...

There has been virtually no research on the linkages between poor minority women's attitudes toward woman abuse and their experiences of mistreatment. In this article, this relationship is explored for 144 women from three racial groups living in public housing in a Minnesota city. One unique aspect of the study is the inclusion of Hmong women, mem...

This exploratory study attempted to deal with the surprisingly small amount of scientific study of crime victimization specifically on public housing estates, particularly in Canada. In this study, 325 public housing residents in six estates in an Eastern Ontario urban center filled out survey questionnaires, while fifty-one were interviewed. Compa...

Although it has not yet been applied to domestic violence and other types of crime in Canadian public housing, the social disorganization/collective efficacy model described in this article may help explain why people who live in such areas characterized by poverty and joblessness report higher rates of intimate partner violence and several other o...

Routine activities theorists traditionally have assumed offenders' motivation and victims' suitability from demographic correlates, and have done little to study effective guardianship. In this paper we ask questions directly of male date rape offenders to test the proposal that male peer support provides motivation; we ask lifestyle questions dire...

That women have a greater fear of crime than men has often been termed irrational or paradoxical, but this article joins those who argue that the gendered nature of fear is well grounded. The authors investigate the extent to which various factors—including prior victimization, perceptions of neighborhood disorder, routine activities, and neighborh...

Stopping woman abuse on the North American college campus has not been very successful thus far. There is a major backlash, where students, faculty, and administrators too often either feel that the problem is not very significant or support the patriarchal rights of men. Programs begun by many campuses have not worked very well, partially because...

PIP This article presents a provisional support for the dependency, availability, and deterrence (DAD) model using data from 1307 men (median age, 21 years) who responded to the 1993 Canadian National Survey. The model claims that highly dependent men in situations of high availability and with low deterrence are more abusive than those less depend...

Data from a Canadian nationwide representative sample of 1,835 female college students were used to test a variety of propositions about women's use of violence in dating relationships. It has become progressively common in both Canada and the United States to argue that women are as violent as men. Although in a crude counting of violent acts thes...

This chapter examines the issue of drug testing from the perspective of organized labor. It aims to provide the reader with a sense of the civil liberties issues attending drug testing and the nature of organized labor’s concerns regarding the validity and effectiveness of such testing. Although the chapter focuses mainly on the positions of Canadi...

The following paper reviews the literature on homeless individuals throughout the lifespan. The majority of the literature reviewed is from Canadian sources. Previous literature is examined through studying multiple factors that contribute to and sustain homelessness in youth, adults, and the elderly. Mental health, substance abuse, and nutrition a...