Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology articles from August 2006

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology archives from August 2006

Beggarman or thief: methodological issues in offender specialisation research.(Australia)
August 1, 2006... The problem of offender specialisation is one of the long-standing themes in theoretical and empirical criminology. Specialised offending suggests that there are specific causal factors that give rise to particular kinds of crime, whereas...

Effects of Pharmacotherapies for Opioid Dependence on Participants' criminal behaviour and expenditure on illicit drugs: an Australian National Evaluation (NEPOD).
August 1, 2006... Data regarding criminal behaviour and expenditure on illicit drugs by 300 methadone patients and 997 heroin users who participated in the Australian National Evaluation of Pharmacotherapies for Opioid Dependence (NEPOD) were analysed to measure...

Concurrent drug and alcohol dependency and mental health problems among incarcerated women.
August 1, 2006... Research suggests that the determinants and pathways of substance use and mental health problems differ for women and men in important ways and therefore women's experiences merit special attention. The 2003 Drug Use Careers of Offenders (DUCO)...

Spatial characteristics of serial sexual assault in New Zealand.
August 1, 2006... This study examines the crime patterns of New Zealand serial sexual assaulters in order to determine the extent to which such offenders display spatial behaviour in line with their overseas counterparts. Hypotheses concerning journey to crime,...

Punishing monsters, judging aliens: justice at the borders of community.
August 1, 2006... The article asks the questions of how we could, and why we should, do justice to people who are outside the limits of our geographical, political, moral or cognitive communities. After looking at political, moral and criminological aspects of...

The family curriculum: socialisation process, family network and the negotiation of police identities.
August 1, 2006... This article analyses how recruits' learning is filtered through their personal social network, with the aim of understanding the role of this network in police education. Based on 68 interviews with recruits about their family relationships,...

Strategic Thinking in Criminal Intelligence.(Book review)
August 1, 2006... Strategic Thinking in Criminal Intelligence Jerry H. Ratcliffe (Ed.) (2004) Annandale, New South Wales, Australia: The Federation Press, 216pp, ISBN 1862874905 Thinking practitioners in the criminal justice community as well as...

Will the Circle be Unbroken? Aboriginal Communities, Restorative Justice, and the Challenge of Conflict and Change.(Book review)
August 1, 2006... Will the Circle be Unbroken? Aboriginal Communities, Restorative Justice, and the Challenge of Conflict and Change Jane Dickinson-Gilmore and Carol La Prairie Toronto: University of Toronto Press, ISBN 0802086748 This handsomely presented...

In Their Own Words: Criminals on Crime.(Book review)
August 1, 2006... In Their Own Words: Criminals on Crime Paul Cromwell (2006) Los Angeles: Roxbury, 340pp, ISBN 193171955 I There is a quiet revolution taking place in criminology--amongst a smattering of noisier and more dubious revolutions making a claim...

Statistics in Criminology and Criminal Justice: Analysis and Interpretation.(Book review)
August 1, 2006... Statistics in Criminology and Criminal Justice; Analysis and Interpretation J. Walker and S. Maddan (2005) Sudbury, MA: Jones and Bartlett Publishers, 423pp, ISBN 0763730718 When I agreed to review this book I was forced to ask myself about...

Why Do Criminals Offend? A General Theory of Crime and Delinquency.(Book review)
August 1, 2006... Why Do Criminals Offend? A General Theory of Crime and Delinquency Robert Agnew (2005) Los Angeles, CA: Roxbury Publishing Company, 246 pp, ISBN 1931719349 Robert Agnew's Why Do Criminals Offend?: A General Theory of Crime and Delinquency...