Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology articles from April 2007

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology archives from April 2007

When does repeat burglary victimisation occur?
April 1, 2007... Research consistently demonstrates that past victimisation is among the best predictors of future risk. Using recorded domestic burglary crime data from Victoria, Australia, analyses were conducted to examine temporal patterns of repeat...

Public satisfaction with police: using procedural justice to improve police legitimacy.(Australia)
April 1, 2007... Policing research and theory emphasises the importance of supportive relationships between police and the communities they serve in increasing police effectiveness in reducing crime and disorder. A key reason people support police is that they...

A micro-spatial analysis of the demographic and criminogenic environment of drug markets in Philadelphia.
April 1, 2007... Few studies have combined factors related to social disorganisation and factors related to opportunity theory at the microspatial level, with most studies aggregating to the block group or census tract. This study disaggregates block group...

Crime prevention in Australia: beyond 'what works?'.
April 1, 2007... Recent decades have seen governments around Australia launch crime prevention policies to much fanfare. Often, however, achievements have fallen well short of expectations. A key problem is that too many attempts to develop and implement crime...

Criminology, crime and politics before and after 9/11.
April 1, 2007... Criminologists have mostly followed the criminal law in adopting an apolitical concept of crime. They paid limited attention to both political crime and the political power to criminalise. The article traces efforts to redress this since the...

The Warehouse Prison.(Book review)
April 1, 2007... The Warehouse Prison By John Irwin (2005) Roxbury Publishing, Los Angeles, CA, 318 pp, ISBN 1931719357 The early 21st century is a time of extraordinarily high rates of imprisonment across the Euro-Western world. It also is a time of the...

Situational Prevention of Child Sexual Abuse.(Book review)
April 1, 2007... Situational Prevention of Child Sexual Abuse Edited by Richard Wortley and Stephen Smallbone (2006) Monsey, NY: Criminal Justice Press and Cullompton, Devon, UK, vi + 270 pp, ISBN 1881798615 This is the 19th volume in the Crime Prevention...

Serial Crime: Theoretical and Practical Issues in Behavioral Profiling.(Book review)
April 1, 2007... Serial Crime: Theoretical and Practical Issues in Behavioral Profiling Edited by Wayne Petherick (2005) Burlington, MA: Academic Press, 256 pp, ISBN 0120885123 The field of behavioural profiling has spent much of its brief history...

Law and Order in Australia: Rhetoric and Reality.(Book review)
April 1, 2007... Law and Order in Australia: Rhetoric and Reality by Don Weatherburn (2004) Sydney: The Federatoin Press, 256 pp, ISBN 9781862875326 There are few Australian criminology books that provide a broad overview of rigorous empirical work of what...

Criminal Profiling: Principles and Practice.(Book review)
April 1, 2007... Criminal Profiling: Principles and Practice Richard N. Kocsis (2006) New Jersey, Humana Press Inc, 273 pp, ISBN 1588296393 Criminal profiling, although having a long history, burst into public consciousness during the 1980s, arising out of...