Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology articles from December 2003

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology archives from December 2003

Sentencing reform in New Zealand: an analysis of the Sentencing Act 2002.
December 1, 2003... Sweeping changes have recently been made to punishment practices in many western nations. A number of these have reflected punitive, penal populism. The purpose of this essay is to examine recent reforms in New Zealand which reflect a...

Yanda 2001: form and strategy in a Chinese anti-crime campaign.
December 1, 2003... This paper is about an anti-crime campaign in the People's Republic of China (PRC) which began in April 2001. It seeks to address the "what, when, where, how and why" of the first months of China's latest "Strike Hard" (Yanda) anti-crime...

Violence, spatiality and other rurals.(New South Wales)
December 1, 2003... Occidentalism, which treats the other as the same, can be detected in both the criminological and rural sociological treatment of violence in the sociospatial sites of rural countrysides. Criminology tends to mistakenly assume that violence in...

Gender differences in the relationship between offending, self-harm and depression in adolescence and young adulthood.(Queensland)
December 1, 2003... Criminal offending and poor mental health are both recognised as important social problems warranting prevention and intervention efforts. Although there is some evidence for comorbidity between these problems, little research has examined the...

Oakeshott and the new crime prevention.
December 1, 2003... Many countries now have some kind of national crime prevention structure. This new crime prevention, unlike traditional criminology, extends the responsibility for preventing crime outside of criminal justice to households, neighbourhoods, and...

Ethnicity and criminal convictions: results of a 21-year longitudinal study.(New Zealand)
December 1, 2003... This study explores possible ethnic bias in rates of officially recorded convictions among a birth cohort of New Zealand young people studied to age 21 years. Data were gathered as part of the Christchurch Health and Development Study. In this...

On terrorism and its (re)sources: a review essay.
December 1, 2003... Pamela L. Griset and Sue Mahan (Eds.) (2003). Terrorism in Perspective. Thousand Oaks, CA and London: Sage. xvi + 391 pp. ISBN 0761924043. Harvey W. Kushner (2003). Encyclopaedia of Terrorism. Thousand Oaks, CA and London: Sage, xxvii +...

Police Reform: Building Integrity.(Book Review)
December 1, 2003... Edited by Tim Prenzler and Janet Ransley (2002) Sydney: Hawkins Press, xiv + 234 pp., ISBN 1 8676067152 The editors present this collection of essays as being concerned with "the recurring problem of police corruption, and contemporary...

Crime and Modernity.(Book Review)
December 1, 2003... By John Lea (2002) London: Sage, 213 pp., ISBN 0803975570 This book documents the fundamental changes that have taken place in recent decades concerning crime and its control. One of the recurring themes--as indicated by the title--is how...

Prison Violence: The Dynamics of Conflict, Fear and Power.(Book Review)
December 1, 2003... Prison Violence: The Dynamics of Conflict, Fear and Power. By Kimmett Edgar, Ian O'Donnell and Carol Martin (2003) Devon: Willan Publishing, 230 pp., ISBN 1 903240980 Beyond the Tariff: Human Rights and the Release of Life Sentence...

Captive Audience: Media, Masculinity and Power in Prisons.(Book Review)
December 1, 2003... By Yvonne Jewkes (2002) Collompton: Willan Publishing, 224 pp., ISBN 1903240654 There is a relative paucity of studies of prison media audiences. Extant research deals in the main with the issue of family viewing, and as a result the role...

Policing, Ethics and Human Rights.(Book Review)
December 1, 2003... By Peter Neyroud and Alan Beckley (with contributions by Paul Collier and Julia Clayton) (2001) Cullompton, Devon: Willan Publishing, 256pp, ISBN 1903240158. The cornucopia of material from the restorative justice industry is in some...