Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology articles from August 2004

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology archives from August 2004

Conferencing and re-offending in Queensland.
August 1, 2004... This paper adds to a growing body of Australian research on conferencing and re-offending. We gathered data from conference case files and offending history records for 200 young offenders who were conferenced in southeast Queensland from April...

Is communalism dead? Reflections on the present and future practice of crime prevention.(part two)
August 1, 2004... This paper, of which this is the second part, takes up a strange paradox or dissonance that characterises contemporary crime prevention, particularly perhaps in Australia. On the one hand, there is an ample literature pointing out the...

Watched over or over-watched? Open street CCTV in Australia.(closed circuit television)
August 1, 2004... Most developed countries, Australia included, are witnessing increased government and public concerns about crime and security. Amid these anxieties, closed circuit television (CCTV) systems to monitor public spaces are increasingly being...

The effects of DNA evidence on homicide cases in court.
August 1, 2004... This study examines the effects that deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) evidence had on decisions in homicide cases as they progressed through the criminal courts. These effects were examined within a context of other evidentiary and extra-legal...

"Newsmaking" criminology or "infotainment" criminology?
August 1, 2004... The role of the media in mobilising public opinion about crime motivates some criminologists to participate as experts in media constructions of crime and social control. These public discourses help shape the social construction of offending,...

A reply to Buckingham's "newsmaking" criminology or "infotainment" criminology? Inaccuracy, distortion and feminist doctrine.(response to article by Judith Buckingham in this issue, p. 253)
August 1, 2004... This edition of the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology carries an article by Judith Buckingham dedicated to discrediting my criminology and, via me, the PhD thesis of my former student, Samantha Jeffries. Inter alia, I am accused...

"Newsmaking criminology" or "infotainment" criminology? A decontextualised, fragmented and misconstrued critique.(response to article by Judith Buckingham in this issue, p. 253)
August 1, 2004... This article is a response to the critique of the author's PhD thesis methodology and findings presented in Judith Buckingham's article titled "Newsmaking Criminology" or "Infotainment" Criminology? it explains in more detail the author's...

'Comparative Histories of Crime' and 'Maconochie's Gentlemen: The Story of Norfolk Island and the Roots of Modern Prison Reform'.
August 1, 2004... Comparative Histories of Crime Edited by Barry Godfrey, Clive Emsley and Graeme Dunstall (2003) Cullompton: Willan, 256 pp., ISBN 1843920360 Maconochie's Gentlemen: The Story of Norfolk Island and the Roots of Modern Prison Reform By...

Women, Policing and Resistance in Northern Ireland.(Book Review)
August 1, 2004... Women, Policing and Resistance in Northern Ireland By Sharon Pickering (2002) Northern Ireland: Beyond the Pale, 214 pp., ISBN 1900960206 The literature on state conflict and political violence has grown significantly over recent years....

Women in Charge: Policing, Gender and Leadership.(Book Review)
August 1, 2004... Women in Charge: Policing, Gender and Leadership By Marisa Silvestri (2003) Devon:Willan, 256 pp., ISBN 1843920492 The position of women in policing has improved significantly since the appointment of the first policewomen in the early 20th...

Policing World Society: Historical Foundations of International Police Cooperation.(Book Review)
August 1, 2004... Policing World Society: Historical Foundations of International Police Cooperation By Mathieu Deflem (2002) Oxford University Press: Clarendon Studies in Criminology, 301 pp., ISBN 0199259623 A book entitled Policing World Society could not...

Critical Chatter: Women and Human Rights in South East Asia.(Book Review)
August 1, 2004... Critical Chatter: Women and Human Rights in South East Asia By Caroline Lambert, Sharon Pickering and Christine Alder (2003) Durham, NC, USA: Carolina Academic Press, 193 pp., ISBN 0890891206 In the early 1980s I listened to the...

Organized Crime and the Challenge to Democracy.(Book Review)
August 1, 2004... Organized Crime and the Challenge to Democracy Edited by Felia Allum and Renate Siebert (2003) London: Routledge, xv, 238 pp., ISBN 041536972X It is no longer fashionable to claim that capitalism sows the seeds of its own destruction....