Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology articles from April 2008

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology archives from April 2008

Female violent offenders: moral panics or more serious offenders?
April 1, 2008... Nearly 40 years ago, in research conducted for the National Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence, Ward and his colleagues, asked 'Are women more aggressive in committing violent crimes today than in the past?' The reason they...

Temporal, situational and interactional features of women's violent conflicts.
April 1, 2008... This article examines contextual and situational influences on the processural development of women's violent conflicts. Through close analysis of 3 women's accounts of their disputes and associated violent behaviours, we provide a rich...

Working 'the code': on girls, gender, and inner-city violence.
April 1, 2008... Much attention is given to young men's experience with inner-city violence; however, this ethnographic study demonstrates that innercity girls are not necessarily isolated by virtue of their gender from much of the violence experienced by poor,...

Understanding women's pathways to jail: analysing the lives of incarcerated women.
April 1, 2008... Some researchers suggest that crime pathways are gendered and that different paths may be revealed depending on the point of contact with the criminal justice system. Drawing from the feminist and age-of-onset literatures, we examine the life...

Girls, peer violence, and restorative justice.(South Australia)
April 1, 2008... Drawing on the South Australia Juvenile Justice (SAJJ) project dataset, this article analyses youth peer violence ('punch-ups') with a focus on girl-on-girl assaults. My aim is to address and explain significant gaps in the empirical knowledge...

Battered women charged with homicide: advancing the interests of indigenous women.(Australia)
April 1, 2008... This article examines legal responses to women charged with a homicide offence arising from killing an abusive partner and reviews Australian cases over the period 1991-2007. We focus on cases involving Indigenous women, due to their very...

Girls' troubles, girls' delinquency, and gender responsive programming: a review.
April 1, 2008... This article begins with a consideration of the interconnected troubles and needs that research has documented for girls who become enmeshed in the juvenile justice system. Special attention is given to findings from research that gives girls...

Law and Order: An Honest Citizen's Guide to Crime and Control.(Book review)
April 1, 2008... Law and Order: An Honest Citizen's Guide to Crime and Control Robert Reiner (2007) Cambridge, Polity, 168 pages, ISBNs: 978-0-7456-2997-1, 978-0-7456-2996-4 Robert Reiner's latest book aims to chart the trajectory of both crime levels and...

Policing the Rural Crisis.(Book review)
April 1, 2008... Policing the Rural Crisis Russell Hogg and Kerry Carrington (2006) Leichhardt, The Federation Press, 246 pp, ISBN 9781862875814 Traditionally criminology and related disciplines have been concerned with crime and social disorder as an urban...

Imagining the Victim of Crime.(Book review)
April 1, 2008... Imagining the Victim of Crime S. Walklate (2007) Maidenhead: Open University Press/McGraw-Hill Education, pp. 189, ISBN-10:0335 21727 3 According to the Left Realist tradition in criminology, there are four points/elements that make up the...

Outsmarting the Terrorists.(Book review)
April 1, 2008... Outsmarting the Terrorists Ronald V. Clarke and Graeme R. Newman 2006. Westport, Connecticut: Praeger, 316pp., ISBN 0-275-99230-6 Clarke and Newman are both senior and distinguished criminologists who have impressive publication records and...