New Zealand Journal of Psychology articles from December 2003

New Zealand Journal of Psychology archives from December 2003

Editorial.
December 1, 2003... This issue of the New Zealand Journal of Psychology contains two separate 'collections' of papers. The first set comprises a special feature on criminal justice psychology, compiled under the guest editorship of Devon Polaschek. In her...

Criminal justice psychology in Aotearoa/New Zealand: introduction to the special feature.
December 1, 2003... Criminal justice psychology is a thriving subspecialty within both clinical and forensic psychology in Aotearoa/New Zealand. Its history goes back more than 50 years and is inextricably linked to the development of psychology as a profession....

The abstinence violation effect: investigating lapse and relapse phenomena using the relapse prevention model with domestically violent men.
December 1, 2003... Despite the influence of the Relapse Prevention (RP) model on understanding offence processes, there has been little research on its key components. This study sets out to replicate research by Ward and colleagues (1994, 1995) with child sex...

Quality parameters of supervision in a correctional context.
December 1, 2003... This paper outlines research into the effectiveness of supervision provided by Department of Corrections clinical psychologists to Department of Corrections probation officers, where the topic for supervision was learning to use the...

Just how effective is correctional treatment at reducing re-offending?
December 1, 2003... This paper reviews the recent history and examines the present state of New Zealand correctional interventions. The focus is specifically on those interventions, programmes, or treatments that aim to reduce re-offending. Beginning in the...

Stopping violent offending in New Zealand: is treatment an option?
December 1, 2003... A quasi-experimental design using survival analysis and other measures showed that a community-based, residential treatment programme for violent offenders could significantly impact on reconviction patterns of a group of men previously...

Sorting women's risk: New Zealand women prisoners' misconducts and internal security risk.
December 1, 2003... Little research has focused on women prisoners' risk of violent or other serious behaviour problems during their period of incarceration, contributing to concerns that the existing male-based prisoner security classification systems used to...

The spread of Antarctic and South Pacific research behind the 2002 Hunter Award.
December 1, 2003... This article brings together the publications that comprised my successful submission for the New Zealand Psychological Society's 2002 Hunter Award. One publication summarizes a number of projects on human adaptation to Antarctic conditions,...

Not the worst journey in the world: a commentary on A.J.W. Taylor's 2002 Hunter Award paper.
December 1, 2003... In his 2002 Hunter Award paper, Professor A. J. W. Taylor takes us on a journey stretching from the Antarctic to the tropical islands of the South Pacific. New Zealand lies roughly in the middle of these two extremes--although sometimes closely...

A commentary on A.J.W. Taylor's "the spread of Antarctic and South Pacific research behind the 2002 Hunter Award".
December 1, 2003... When describing almost half a century of scholarly endeavour, Taylor reflects on the possibility that he might have spread this effort over too wide an area. On the contrary, Taylor's work provides the academic community with rich insights into...