Sam Ghebrai
Biographic Data
| ID | 3075049 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sam Ghebrai |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sam |
| FAMILY NAME | Ghebrai |
| SIGNATURE | GHEBRAI S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Western University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6038-9247 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
No Matter Your Age, “It’s Your Life, It’s Your Choice”
Although existing literature identifies that public protection and risk reduction are the primary goals of intensive supervision programs (ISP), little is known about how or whether rehabilitation of high-risk offenders is prioritized outside of enforcing court-mandated conditions. Using qualitative semi-structured interviews and focus groups within two Canadian metropolitan ISPs, our study explores how rehabilitative support is offered to youth …
Overriding Health and/or Safety Concerns”
In Canada, federal, provincial, and territorial correctional policies appear to uphold human rights for trans people in custody. However, critical scholars highlight contradictions within these reforms—especially the use of “overriding health and/or safety concerns” clauses to deny gender-affirming prison placement. These clauses remain unoperationalized within every Canadian correctional policy currently in effect. This paper argues that the lac…
(De)Constructing Credibility
Our study examines how factors associated with normative conceptions of childhood shape Canada’s Immigration and Refugee Board adjudicators’ interpretations of evidence and justifications for decisions. We examine Canadian case file transcripts to highlight the factors that shape IRB members’ decisions to accept or reject children’s claims. Through analyzing IRB members’ language, discourses, and rationales for their decisions, we show that their…
The Social Construction of Age and ‘Best Interests’ Discourses
Canada has received worldwide recognition for its implementation of the Canada Chairperson’s Guideline 3: Child Refugee Claimants. This informal immigration rights policy, statutorily authorized by the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act, instructs immigration officials to provide special considerations to accompanied and unaccompanied child migrants. Our analysis examines the language of Guideline 3 to understand how the social construction o…
The Social Construction of Age and ‘Best Interests’ Discourses
Canada has received worldwide recognition for its implementation of the Canada Chairperson’s Guideline 3: Child Refugee Claimants. This informal immigration rights policy, statutorily authorized by the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act, instructs immigration officials to provide special considerations to accompanied and unaccompanied child migrants. Our analysis examines the language of Guideline 3 to understand how the social construction o…
The Social Construction of Age and ‘Best Interests’ Discourses
Canada has received worldwide recognition for its implementation of the Canada Chairperson’s Guideline 3: Child Refugee Claimants. This informal immigration rights policy, statutorily authorized by the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act, instructs immigration officials to provide special considerations to accompanied and unaccompanied child migrants. Our analysis examines the language of Guideline 3 to understand how the social construction o…
(De)Constructing Credibility
Our study examines how factors associated with normative conceptions of childhood shape Canada’s Immigration and Refugee Board adjudicators’ interpretations of evidence and justifications for decisions. We examine Canadian case file transcripts to highlight the factors that shape IRB members’ decisions to accept or reject children’s claims. Through analyzing IRB members’ language, discourses, and rationales for their decisions, we show that their…
Overriding Health and/or Safety Concerns”
In Canada, federal, provincial, and territorial correctional policies appear to uphold human rights for trans people in custody. However, critical scholars highlight contradictions within these reforms—especially the use of “overriding health and/or safety concerns” clauses to deny gender-affirming prison placement. These clauses remain unoperationalized within every Canadian correctional policy currently in effect. This paper argues that the lac…
No Matter Your Age, “It’s Your Life, It’s Your Choice”
Although existing literature identifies that public protection and risk reduction are the primary goals of intensive supervision programs (ISP), little is known about how or whether rehabilitation of high-risk offenders is prioritized outside of enforcing court-mandated conditions. Using qualitative semi-structured interviews and focus groups within two Canadian metropolitan ISPs, our study explores how rehabilitative support is offered to youth …
Political science (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis (2 works) · Immigration (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Migration, Health and Trauma (2 works) · Migration, Refugees, and Integration (2 works) · Psychology (2 works) · Refugee (2 works) · Social Psychology (2 works)