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Crime Association

As the content involved was created with the collaboration of another individual, Cotter Eyre, this page will provide a quick summary of our research proposal to analyze university students' behaviours and attitudes in relation to criminal actions undertaken by those close to them. How does social environment affect the legal actions one may take? 

The following does not include the appendix nor the bulk of the content. If you are interesting in learning more about the paper, please feel free to contact me to discuss it at length. 

Collating Data

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Topic

The topic of this survey is to understand university students’ behaviours and attitudes towards close individuals who perform illegal actions.

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Purpose

The purpose of the study is to determine the response university students have when faced with illegal actions performed by individuals with whom they are close with, by asking questions related to morality types of crimes, attitudes towards different crimes, relationships with others, levels of association and the behavioural effects within the relationship involving the criminal individual (hypothetical or not) and participants. As our paper later expands on, social relationships drastically affects crime occurrence and reoccurrence. 

Study Group on the Grass
Reading in Library

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Current Research

Although, there are surveys that measure specific attitudes towards certain types of aggression such as cyberbullying. The measurement of attitudes and behaviours based on relational bonds and intimacy on a general scale towards Canadian illegal actions has yet to be explored. We have created this survey in response to the lack of research in crime tolerance dependent on intimacy.

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Proposed Analysis

The two variables measured in this study are attitudes and behaviors of Canadian university students toward “criminals” and the level of intimacy required continued relationships between criminals and participants. The university students were chosen because of the demographics’ levels of access to informational social networks that can create significant changes in their perspectives and behaviours (Gavilan, 2017). To understand where the line is commonly drawn for crime tolerance based on aforementioned characteristics is critical.

Students

Overall, we hoped to dive deeper into the social nature of humans and its effects based on crime.

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