Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology articles from April 2003

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology archives from April 2003

The electronic ball and chain? The operation and impact of home detention with electronic monitoring in New Zealand.
April 1, 2003... In New Zealand, Amendment No. 9 (1999) of the Criminal Justice Act 1983 introduced Home Detention Orders as an early release from prison option, implemented on the 1st October 1999. The orders, with electronic monitoring, were...

Problematic licensed premises for Assault in Inner Sydney, Newcastle and Wollongong.
April 1, 2003... Evidence suggests that licensed premises are often associated with alcohol-related harm, particularly violent crime. However, not all Licensed premises appear to be equal contributors to alcohol-related problems in the...

Confrontational and revenge homicides among men in England and Wales.
April 1, 2003... This article examines the nature of two predominant forms of masculine male-on-male) homicide identified in England and Wales--"confrontational" homicide and "revenge" homicide. Based on analysis of police murder investigation...

Mandatory compensation orders for crime victims and the rhetoric of restorative justice.
April 1, 2003... Increased recognition of the need for victims of crime to be integrated into the criminal justice system and to receive adequate reparation has led, in a number of jurisdictions, to legislative measures to ...

Prohibition and cannabis use in Australia: a survey of 18- to 29-year-olds.
April 1, 2003... The prevalence of cannabis use in Australia has increased in the last few years, prompting some to argue that the prohibition against cannabis is both costly and ineffective and should be lifted. Surveys designed to evaluate...

Post-prison Mortality: Unnatural death among people released from Victorian prisons between January 1990 and December 1999.
April 1, 2003... The extent and nature of unnatural death among people who were released from Victorian prisons between January 1990 and December 1999 were examined. A total of 820 men and women released during that period were identified as having...

Restorative Justice and Responsive Regulation.(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... In the beginning there was Crime, Shame, and Reintegration (1989). In that book, John Braithwaite argued for a different response to crime that was "neither cold and punitive, nor warm and permissive" [but rather warm and firm 1989, p. 152]. He...

Indigenous Human Rights.(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... (2001) Sydney. Institute of Criminology Monograph Series. 265 pp., $33, ISBN 1864874090 Indigenous Human Rights is the 14th title in the Sydney Institute of Criminology's Monograph Series and comprises an edited selection of the...

The Spectacle of Violence: Homophobia, Gender and Knowledge.(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... (2002) London: Routledge. 170 pp, $49.95, ISBN 0415189551 This is a rich and multi-layered text that is clearly the result of many years of thinking, researching, writing and working politically around issues of violence. It focuses on...

Critical Criminology: Issues, Debates, Challenges.(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... (2002), Devon: Willan: 286 pp., $49.50 ISBN 1903240689 In my favourite passage (among tight competition) from Kerry Carrington and Russell Hogg's significant new reader Critical Criminology: Issues, Debates, Challenges, Jock Young is...

The Japanese Way of Justice: Prosecuting Crime in Japan.(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... Pre-publication comments--the ones printed on the back of a book's dust jacket or in publishers' advertisements--are not infrequently extravagant. And the three distinguished professors commenting on David Johnson's new book are hardly...

Can Gun Control Work?(Brief Review)(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... If "the right to bear arms" is burned into the American psyche, the right to burn bare arms is more characteristic of the Australian character. Though it is estimated that there are some two million firearms in Australia, guns are not as...