Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology articles from April 2005

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology archives from April 2005

A tribute to Allen Bartholomew.(Australia)(Obituary)
April 1, 2005... Dr Allen Austin Bartholomew, MB BS (Lon), MRCS, LRCP, DPM, FRCPsych, FRANZCP, MAPsS, who died in Melbourne on June 19, 2004, was a distinguished forensic psychiatrist who made a unique contribution to the development of Australian criminology....

Why don't the police stop crime?(Australia)
April 1, 2005... Several answers to the question 'Why don't the police stop crime?' are considered. Police do stop some crime, although increasingly they will rely on nonpolice personnel for assistance in doing so. The proportion of crime they stop is not...

Justice in the risk society.
April 1, 2005... The punishment paradigm is attractive because of the parsimonious way in which it integrates the instrumental and the symbolic features of ordering. This paper examines the relationship between these features in a context where risk and risk...

Evaluation research and criminal justice: beyond a political critique.(United Kingdom, Australia)
April 1, 2005... This article is intended to stimulate reflection and debate about the relationship between pure and applied research in criminology. The central argument is that evaluation research, which has almost become a dominant paradigm in researching...

Escalation and deceleration of offending behaviours from adolescence to early adulthood.(United Kingdom, Australia)
April 1, 2005... Relatively little longitudinal research is available in Australia to describe the age/crime relationship in much detail, particularly patterns of offending occurring during the transition from adolescence to early adulthood. This paper...

Assessing reoffending in restorative justice conferences.(Australia, United Kingdom)
April 1, 2005... Restorative justice conferencing, in response to youthful offending, has grown in popularity around the world. While there is now substantial empirical evidence that shows offenders and victims are satisfied with outcomes and perceive the...

Disaggregating the relationship between drug misuse and crime.(United Kingdom)
April 1, 2005... Studies on the association between drug-misuse and criminal behaviour have tended to be based on either aggregated data (composite forms of drug-misuse or offending) or data on just one or two types of drug-misuse or crime. Such studies can...

Using financial incentives and income contingent penalties to detect and punish collusion and insider trading. (Australia)
April 1, 2005... Collusion and insider trading, being white collar crimes, are often characterised as being victimless crimes. The absence of identifiable victims makes the detection of these crimes particularly difficult. This paper proposes that, in order to...

State Crime: Governments, Violence and Corruption.(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... State Crime: Governments, Violence and Corruption By Penny Green and Tony Ward (2004) London: Pluto Press, 255 pp, ISBN 0745317847 Penny Green and Tony Ward's book makes a seminal contribution to the discipline and one that will no doubt be...

Shared Beginnings, Divergent Lives: Delinquent Boys to Age 70.(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... Shared Beginnings, Divergent Lives: Delinquent Boys to Age 70. By John H. Laub and Robert J. Sampson (2003) Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 338 pp, ISBN 0674011910 Laub and Sampson's latest offering breaks new ground in...

Introducing Policing: Challenges for Police and Australian Communities.(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... Introducing Policing: Challenges for Police and Australian Communities By Mark Findlay (2004) Melbourne, Australia: Oxford University Press, 190 pp, ISBN 0 19 551621 4 Mark Findlay refers to his new book as the 'distillation' (p. vi) of...

Bin Laden in the Suburbs: Criminalising the Arab Other.(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... Bin Laden in the Suburbs: Criminalising the Arab Other By Scott Poynting, Greg Noble, Paul Tabar and Jock Collins (2004) Sydney, Australia, The Sydney Institute of Criminology & Federation Press, 333 pp, ISBN 0975196707 This incisive and...

The Practice of Research in Criminology and Criminal Justice, 2d ed.(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... The Practice of Research in Criminology and Criminal Justice (2nd ed.) By Ronet Bachman and Russell Schutt (2003) Thousand Oaks, CA:Pine Forge Press, xxiii + 405 pp, ISBN 0761928774 Those familiar with undergraduate teaching in North...