Jennifer S Wong
Biographic Data
| ID | 3838134 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jennifer S Wong |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jennifer S |
| FAMILY NAME | Wong |
| SIGNATURE | WONG J S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Simon Fraser University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7523-7430 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 39 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 20 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 39 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Role of School and Peer Contexts in Shaping Youth Perceptions of Gangs
Youth gang involvement is a concern in British Columbia, but how school contexts and bullying shape gang-related attitudes remains unclear. Using data from 1,673 students in seven high schools, we examined associations between school disorder, bullying victimization, and gang attitudes. School fixed-effects regressions on multiply imputed data indicated an inverted curvilinear association between school disorder and beliefs about negative gang re…
Reducing Gang Involvement
Gang activity presents a serious risk to many communities across Canada. The prevalence of gang violence has prompted the creation of a variety of prevention, intervention, and suppression efforts. The current study reviews existing intervention approaches, with a particular focus on those targeting high-risk and gang-entrenched individuals, and situates a new intervention and exiting program within the current gang control framework. An overview…
Promoting anti-gang attitudes and beliefs in high school students
The Inside Scoop
The Wraparound approach for youth gang intervention
The Effects of Halfway Houses on Criminal Recidivism
Halfway houses operate as a form of community supervision, offering a unique opportunity for individuals who have offended to receive housing, support, and other resources to aid in navigating the challenges of re-entry from closed custody. Despite being controversial in the eyes of the public, they have long been viewed by stakeholders as a worthwhile intervention. However, existing literature presents mixed findings on their utility. The curren…
Mitigating Risk and Magnifying Protection
Rates of gang-related violence are high across Canada, with one quarter of homicides in 2022 connected to gangs. Individuals face numerous risk and protective factors which influence the gang disengagement process; addressing these factors is key for successful interventions. The Gang Intervention and Exiting Program (GIEP) is a holistic case management program operating in British Columbia, Canada, which targets entrenched gang members and high-…
Joining forces
Gang interventions often rely on police for intelligence but seldom incorporate them into treatment delivery despite the risks that gang members might pose to civilian case workers. The Gang Intervention and Exiting Program (GIEP), implemented in British Columbia, Canada, uses an individualized case management approach and pairs civilian case managers with police officers to provide client services and supports to encourage gang exiting and proso…
The Impact of Telepresence Robots on Family Caregivers and Residents in Long-Term Care
Telepresence robots can enhance social connection and support person-centered care in long-term care (LTC) homes. This study evaluates their impact in facilitating virtual visits between family caregivers and older residents in Canadian LTC homes. Telepresence robots were placed in residents' rooms, allowing virtual visits at mutual convenience. A total of 18 residents and 17 family caregivers participated. Quantitative assessments included the Z…
Now and Then
Using a mixed methods approach, this study aimed to examine adolescents’ concerns about high school and the challenges they encounter after their transition to high school. Participants were recruited from 31 primary schools in metro Vancouver, British Columbia; most participants identified as female and were from a non-white ethnic background. Data was collected via self-report questionnaires from students in their last year of primary school an…
Settling In
Immigrant youth represent a growing population in Canada, and ensuring their successful integration with schools is essential to promoting long-term equity. The present analysis contributes to our understanding of acculturation challenges experienced by immigrant youth examining how immigrant generation (first, second, and third), predicts school, anxiety, and peer-related risk and protective factors. A sample of 783 grade seven students across 3…
Promoting disengagement
Does “Consent Matter”? An Evaluation of a Sexual Consent Awareness Campaign for College Students
Consent, or lack thereof, is paramount in instances of sexual violence among college students. The current study assessed the impact of the Consent Matters campaign on Canadian undergraduate students’ ( N = 799) attitudes toward sexual consent, perceived behavioral control in obtaining consent, use of indirect methods of obtaining consent, as well as recall of the campaign materials. Results indicate no significant impact of the campaign on stude…
I Get by With a Little Help From My Friends
Adolescents face many difficulties when transitioning to high school, particularly when it comes to their social circles and maintaining friendships. As these challenges can have long-term consequences, providing support to youth during this period is essential. The YWCA Youth Education Programs (YEP) in Vancouver, BC offer group-based, after-school mentoring programs for 7 th grade students to help them navigate the transition to high school. Su…
Broad Strokes for 'Foreign Folks
This research explores migrant presentation in newspaper articles containing migrant crime. Thematic content analysis is employed to examine the narratives used in generalized negative discussion of migration in 100 randomly sampled articles from 6 newspapers in Canada, the UK, and the U.S. in 2018. We uncovered 13 themes, such as failure of the state, rapists and criminals, and terrorism. The findings highlight the type and variety of generalize…
The Effectiveness of College Dating Violence Prevention Programs
Due in part to their involvement with social activities on campus, college students experience an increased risk of dating violence. Recent legislation such as the Campus SaVE Act (which requires U.S. colleges to offer training on sexual assault, domestic violence, stalking, and sexual harassment to all incoming students) has contributed to the increase in prevention programming offered across postsecondary campuses, as well as subsequent researc…
Do Meta-Analyses of Intervention/Prevention Programs in the Field of Criminology Meet the Tests of Transparency and Reproducibility
While assessments of transparent reporting practices in meta-analyses are not uncommon in the field of health sciences interventions, they are limited in the social sciences and to our knowledge are non-existent in criminology. Modified PRISMA 2020 checklists were used to assess transparency and reproducibility of reporting for a sample of 33 meta-analyses of intervention/prevention evaluations published in scholarly journals between 2016 and 202…
A Popular Approach, but Do They Work? A Systematic Review of Social Marketing Campaigns to Prevent Sexual Violence on College Campuses
College campuses continue to face high rates of sexual violence and social marketing campaigns have emerged as a common prevention strategy. However, there exists no summative research examining the effectiveness of this approach. A systematic search yielded 15 evaluations of eight unique prevention campaigns, which contributed to 38 individual outcome measures across four outcome categories (i.e., knowledge, attitudes, intentions/efficacy, and b…
A Meta-Analysis of the Effects of Wilderness Therapy on Delinquent Behaviors Among Youth
The purpose of the present meta-analysis was to determine the effectiveness of wilderness therapy in addressing youth delinquency. A systematic review of the literature was conducted using 27 electronic databases and numerous gray literature sources, surveying literature published from 1990 to 2020. The search identified 189 potential studies for inclusion, resulting in a final study pool of 11 studies contributing 14 effect sizes from a total sa…
Seeing the forest and the trees
Recidivism is a multidimensional construct that is operationalized in a variety of ways. We explored the impact of using aggregated measures of recidivism (i.e. multiple measures combined) versus disaggregated measures (i.e. defined specifically as parole violation, arrest, conviction, incarceration) in meta-analytic analyses of correctional intervention effectiveness. Using a sample of 20 meta-analyses, we compared within-study findings between …
Judging the Book by Its Cover
Substantial literature has examined the effectiveness of intimate partner violence (IPV) interventions, and cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is noted as the second most common approach used in group interventions for partner violent men. However, as little research has examined how CBT principles are operationalized across program curricula, there is currently insufficient information from which to make recommendations for model CBT approaches …
Are students gender-neutral in their assessment of online teaching staff
The scores from student evaluation forms are often used to construct assessments about the quality and effectiveness of course instruction. These assessments, in turn, can have serious professional impacts on instructors with respect to future course assignments, grants, promotion and hiring decisions. Previous research suggests that scores from student evaluations can be significantly predicted by factors other than teaching quality, in particul…
Preventing intimate partner violence
Although intimate partner violence (IPV) is the leading type of violence experienced by women in many parts of the world, limited research with mixed findings exists on IPV intervention programming for immigrants and visible minority subgroups. Changing Behaviors is an eight-week IPV intervention programme targeting immigrants, refugees and visible minority clientele in British Columbia, Canada. This pilot study provides a preliminary examination…
Hypothetical Discussion of Migrant Crime
This research explores the use of hypothetical discussion – content that is speculative, conjectural, or abstract – in newspaper articles containing migrant crime. Content analysis and logistic regression are used to examine the presence of hypothetical discussion and its associated content in 225 newspaper articles from Canada, the UK, and the US. Results include various positive predictors of hypothetical discussion – e.g., mention of Islam; ir…
Pathways to Engagement
Research on intimate partner violence (IPV) interventions has long indicated mixed support for their effectiveness at reducing abusive behaviors. Limited prior research has focused on factors associated with participant engagement in the treatment process. Using a qualitative thematic analysis and a sample of 180 participants who completed an IPV intervention program, the purpose of this study was to identify key factors that facilitate men's res…
Reasons and He Ain’t One
Domestic violence is a widespread issue, with victims suffering emotional and physical harm and severe cases resulting in homicide. Media presentation of these extreme instances may affect public opinion and related policies. The current study considered the portrayal of domestic homicides in Canadian print news, using articles published in the Vancouver Sun between 2004 and 2015. A content analysis shows domestic homicides were portrayed as isol…
Getting in People's Faces
The current study explores the relationships among high-profile homicide incidents, media representations of gang homicides, and the establishment of specialized police task forces in British Columbia, Canada. The sample includes all articles on homicide published between 2004 and 2010 in a major daily newspaper (N = 2,873). We examine the attention given to gang-related homicides compared to other homicides, explore the impact of high-profile sh…
Hypothetical Discussion of Migrant Crime
This research explores the use of hypothetical discussion – content that is speculative, conjectural, or abstract – in newspaper articles containing migrant crime. Content analysis and logistic regression are used to examine the presence of hypothetical discussion and its associated content in 225 newspaper articles from Canada, the UK, and the US. Results include various positive predictors of hypothetical discussion – e.g., mention of Islam; ir…
A Jury of Their Peers
Promises kept? A meta-analysis of gang membership prevention programs
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to synthesize the effects of gang prevention programs on gang membership. Design/methodology/approach – The authors conducted a systematic literature review across 19 bibliographic databases and a meta-analysis of the effectiveness of these strategies. Findings – The database search resulted in 3,850 hits. Of the 162 studies that were screened in full, six involved a prevention program with outcomes commensu…
Broad Strokes for 'Foreign Folks
This research explores migrant presentation in newspaper articles containing migrant crime. Thematic content analysis is employed to examine the narratives used in generalized negative discussion of migration in 100 randomly sampled articles from 6 newspapers in Canada, the UK, and the U.S. in 2018. We uncovered 13 themes, such as failure of the state, rapists and criminals, and terrorism. The findings highlight the type and variety of generalize…
Disparate Approaches to Intimate Partner Violence Intervention
There exists ongoing debate regarding appropriate therapeutic approaches, practices, and techniques for interventions targeted toward male perpetrators of intimate partner violence (IPV). The current study describes and presents pilot evaluation data from two IPV intervention programs implemented in British Columbia, Canada which use different approaches to IPV intervention: Help Yourself to Healthy Relationships (HYHR; a feminist/trauma-informed…
The differential portrayal of ‘sympathetic’ homicide victims in the media
The over-representation of crime is a prevalent occurrence in the media; so too is the under-representation of certain types of victims of crime. The purpose of the current study is to explore the role that characteristics of homicide victims play in the presentation and prominence of a news story. The study uses a sample of 3,998 newspaper articles on homicide from the Vancouver Sun to assess the relationship between victims who are cumulatively…
Using Crime News Reporting Themes to Predict Image Inclusion in Newspaper Homicide Articles
The general public relies on news reports to guide their perceptions about crime. Previous research suggests that text elements in crime news reporting are framed in consistent packages for audience consumption, and that newspaper images exert a considerable influence on audience perception of news articles. The current study categorizes homicide articles into four themes and examines how thematic reporting relates to the likelihood of image incl…
Keeping promises
Tabulating the Bill
Examining recidivism among foreign-born jail inmates
The topic of ‘illegal’ immigration is currently the focus of intense ideological and policy debate in the United States. A common assertion is that those without legal immigration status are disproportionately involved in criminal offending relative to other foreign-born populations. The current study examines the long-term recidivism patterns of a group of male removable aliens compared to those foreign-born with legal authorisation to be presen…
Promises kept? A meta-analysis of gang membership prevention programs
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to synthesize the effects of gang prevention programs on gang membership. Design/methodology/approach – The authors conducted a systematic literature review across 19 bibliographic databases and a meta-analysis of the effectiveness of these strategies. Findings – The database search resulted in 3,850 hits. Of the 162 studies that were screened in full, six involved a prevention program with outcomes commensu…
A Jury of Their Peers
The Effect of Victim Resistance on Rape Completion
When confronted with a sexual attacker, women are often extremely concerned with avoiding rape completion. While narrative reviews typically suggest that the victim resistance is linked to rape avoidance, much of the existing literature relies on overlapping samples from the National Crime Victimization Survey. The current meta-analysis examines whether victim resistance is related to a greater likelihood of avoiding rape completion. Results from…
Redeeming Desire
Born in Indonesia in 1957 to Chinese parents, Li-Young Lee is a major poet with four collections, including The City in Which I Love You (1990), From Blossoms (2007), and a memoir. His maternal great-grandfather was Yuan Shikai, China's first republican president. His father was a physician in China who acted as Mao Zedong's personal secretary and suffered political imprisonments in Indonesia. His forthcoming collection, The Undressing (W. W. Nor…
Getting in People's Faces
The current study explores the relationships among high-profile homicide incidents, media representations of gang homicides, and the establishment of specialized police task forces in British Columbia, Canada. The sample includes all articles on homicide published between 2004 and 2010 in a major daily newspaper (N = 2,873). We examine the attention given to gang-related homicides compared to other homicides, explore the impact of high-profile sh…
A safe place to learn? Examining sexual assault policies at Canadian public universities
Sexual assault on university campuses is a pervasive problem that affects approximately 25% of female students and has wide-reaching negative outcomes [DeKeseredy, W., and K. Kelly. 1993. ‘The Incidence and Prevalence of Woman Abuse in Canadian University and College Dating Relationships.’ The Canadian Journal of Sociology 18 (2): 137–59; Krebs, C. P., C. H. Lindquist, T. D. Warner, B. S. Fisher, and S. L. Martin. 2009. ‘College Women’s Experienc…
Using Crime News Reporting Themes to Predict Image Inclusion in Newspaper Homicide Articles
The general public relies on news reports to guide their perceptions about crime. Previous research suggests that text elements in crime news reporting are framed in consistent packages for audience consumption, and that newspaper images exert a considerable influence on audience perception of news articles. The current study categorizes homicide articles into four themes and examines how thematic reporting relates to the likelihood of image incl…
Reasons and He Ain’t One
Domestic violence is a widespread issue, with victims suffering emotional and physical harm and severe cases resulting in homicide. Media presentation of these extreme instances may affect public opinion and related policies. The current study considered the portrayal of domestic homicides in Canadian print news, using articles published in the Vancouver Sun between 2004 and 2015. A content analysis shows domestic homicides were portrayed as isol…
Reducing abuse in intimate partner relationships
The differential portrayal of ‘sympathetic’ homicide victims in the media
The over-representation of crime is a prevalent occurrence in the media; so too is the under-representation of certain types of victims of crime. The purpose of the current study is to explore the role that characteristics of homicide victims play in the presentation and prominence of a news story. The study uses a sample of 3,998 newspaper articles on homicide from the Vancouver Sun to assess the relationship between victims who are cumulatively…
Judging the Book by Its Cover
Substantial literature has examined the effectiveness of intimate partner violence (IPV) interventions, and cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is noted as the second most common approach used in group interventions for partner violent men. However, as little research has examined how CBT principles are operationalized across program curricula, there is currently insufficient information from which to make recommendations for model CBT approaches …
Are students gender-neutral in their assessment of online teaching staff
The scores from student evaluation forms are often used to construct assessments about the quality and effectiveness of course instruction. These assessments, in turn, can have serious professional impacts on instructors with respect to future course assignments, grants, promotion and hiring decisions. Previous research suggests that scores from student evaluations can be significantly predicted by factors other than teaching quality, in particul…
Preventing intimate partner violence
Although intimate partner violence (IPV) is the leading type of violence experienced by women in many parts of the world, limited research with mixed findings exists on IPV intervention programming for immigrants and visible minority subgroups. Changing Behaviors is an eight-week IPV intervention programme targeting immigrants, refugees and visible minority clientele in British Columbia, Canada. This pilot study provides a preliminary examination…
Hypothetical Discussion of Migrant Crime
This research explores the use of hypothetical discussion – content that is speculative, conjectural, or abstract – in newspaper articles containing migrant crime. Content analysis and logistic regression are used to examine the presence of hypothetical discussion and its associated content in 225 newspaper articles from Canada, the UK, and the US. Results include various positive predictors of hypothetical discussion – e.g., mention of Islam; ir…
Pathways to Engagement
Research on intimate partner violence (IPV) interventions has long indicated mixed support for their effectiveness at reducing abusive behaviors. Limited prior research has focused on factors associated with participant engagement in the treatment process. Using a qualitative thematic analysis and a sample of 180 participants who completed an IPV intervention program, the purpose of this study was to identify key factors that facilitate men's res…
Disparate Approaches to Intimate Partner Violence Intervention
There exists ongoing debate regarding appropriate therapeutic approaches, practices, and techniques for interventions targeted toward male perpetrators of intimate partner violence (IPV). The current study describes and presents pilot evaluation data from two IPV intervention programs implemented in British Columbia, Canada which use different approaches to IPV intervention: Help Yourself to Healthy Relationships (HYHR; a feminist/trauma-informed…
A Meta-Analysis of the Effects of Wilderness Therapy on Delinquent Behaviors Among Youth
The purpose of the present meta-analysis was to determine the effectiveness of wilderness therapy in addressing youth delinquency. A systematic review of the literature was conducted using 27 electronic databases and numerous gray literature sources, surveying literature published from 1990 to 2020. The search identified 189 potential studies for inclusion, resulting in a final study pool of 11 studies contributing 14 effect sizes from a total sa…
Seeing the forest and the trees
Recidivism is a multidimensional construct that is operationalized in a variety of ways. We explored the impact of using aggregated measures of recidivism (i.e. multiple measures combined) versus disaggregated measures (i.e. defined specifically as parole violation, arrest, conviction, incarceration) in meta-analytic analyses of correctional intervention effectiveness. Using a sample of 20 meta-analyses, we compared within-study findings between …
The Effectiveness of College Dating Violence Prevention Programs
Due in part to their involvement with social activities on campus, college students experience an increased risk of dating violence. Recent legislation such as the Campus SaVE Act (which requires U.S. colleges to offer training on sexual assault, domestic violence, stalking, and sexual harassment to all incoming students) has contributed to the increase in prevention programming offered across postsecondary campuses, as well as subsequent researc…
Do Meta-Analyses of Intervention/Prevention Programs in the Field of Criminology Meet the Tests of Transparency and Reproducibility
While assessments of transparent reporting practices in meta-analyses are not uncommon in the field of health sciences interventions, they are limited in the social sciences and to our knowledge are non-existent in criminology. Modified PRISMA 2020 checklists were used to assess transparency and reproducibility of reporting for a sample of 33 meta-analyses of intervention/prevention evaluations published in scholarly journals between 2016 and 202…
A Popular Approach, but Do They Work? A Systematic Review of Social Marketing Campaigns to Prevent Sexual Violence on College Campuses
College campuses continue to face high rates of sexual violence and social marketing campaigns have emerged as a common prevention strategy. However, there exists no summative research examining the effectiveness of this approach. A systematic search yielded 15 evaluations of eight unique prevention campaigns, which contributed to 38 individual outcome measures across four outcome categories (i.e., knowledge, attitudes, intentions/efficacy, and b…
Does “Consent Matter”? An Evaluation of a Sexual Consent Awareness Campaign for College Students
Consent, or lack thereof, is paramount in instances of sexual violence among college students. The current study assessed the impact of the Consent Matters campaign on Canadian undergraduate students’ ( N = 799) attitudes toward sexual consent, perceived behavioral control in obtaining consent, use of indirect methods of obtaining consent, as well as recall of the campaign materials. Results indicate no significant impact of the campaign on stude…
Psychology (25 works) · Medicine (22 works) · Poison control (18 works) · Suicide prevention (15 works) · Crime Patterns and Interventions (14 works) · Human Factors and Ergonomics (14 works) · Criminology (12 works) · Political science (12 works) · Psychiatry (11 works) · Law (10 works)