Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology articles from December 2004

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology archives from December 2004

Gordon Hawkins (1919-2004).(former Director of Sydney University Institute of Criminology)(Obituary)
December 1, 2004... Gordon Hawkins, icon of Australian criminology, Gdied in Manly, New South Wales, on February 29, 2004. He was 84. After serving from 1939 to 1945 with the 1st Assam Rifles in India and Burma, Hawkins returned to postwar Britain and gained a...

Norval Morris (1923-2004).(former Dean of the University of Chicago Law School)(Obituary)
December 1, 2004... Norval Morris was one of the pioneers of Australian criminology. He cofounded the Criminology Department at the University of Melbourne in 1951 with his friend Sir John Barrie before heading off to Adelaide and then settling in Chicago in 1964,...

The uncertain promise of risk.(actuarial forecasting of criminal justice system)
December 1, 2004... Conventional debates over risk in criminal justice (and more generally) tend to fall into several traps. These include the assumption that diverse configurations of risk can be collapsed into a single category, to be contrasted en bloc with...

Gang rape in Sydney: crime, the media, politics, race and sentencing.
December 1, 2004... In 2001 and 2002, print, radio and television gave extensive coverage to series of gang rapes in Bankstown and other suburbs of south-west Sydney. The coverage attacked the laxity and inefficiency of the criminal justice system and immigration...

The production of sovereignty and the rise of transversal policing: people-smuggling and federal policing.
December 1, 2004... Border-policing has been the subject of increasing criminological concern in the US and Europe: however, it has garnered relatively little attention in Australia. This article addresses the federal border-policing effort that has contributed to...

Beyond representation: cultural understandings of the September 11 attacks.
December 1, 2004... The September 11 attacks changed the world. This article explores this common assertion by analysing selected Australian and American media and political representations of the September 11 attacks. The aim is two-fold: to explore these...

Procedural safeguards for young offenders: views of legal professionals and adolescents.(Australia)
December 1, 2004... We investigated the importance of procedural safeguards for young offenders, identified by adolescents and legal professionals. Comparisons were made of the ratings of 17 individual procedural safeguards related to the story of a hypothetical...

Children visiting mothers in prison: the effects on mothers' behaviour and disciplinary adjustment.(Australia)
December 1, 2004... This article examines 158 inmate mothers released from a maximum security prison to determine the influence of minor children's visitation on their mothers' disciplinary adjustment in prison. Logistic regression analysis was used to predict the...

Communities, crime prevention and the politics of articulation: a reply to Kit Carson.(Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology, vol. 37, issues 1-2, p. 1, 192)
December 1, 2004... This article is a rejoinder to Kit Carson's seminal two-part essay, Is communalism dead? Reflections on the present and future practice of crime prevention. It aims to foster further debate on "the communal" in the field of crime prevention...

Unmasking the Crimes of the Powerful: Scrutinizing States and Corporations.(Book Review)
December 1, 2004... Unmasking the Crimes of the Powerful: Scrutinizing States and Corporations Edited by Steve Tombs and David Whyte (2003) Peter Lang: New York, 318 pp. ISBN 0820456918 Deviant Knowledge: Criminology, Politics and Policy By Reece Walters...

Criminal Woman, the Prostitute, and the Normal Woman.(Book Review)
December 1, 2004... Criminal Woman, the Prostitute, and the Normal Woman [La donna delinquente] By Cesare Lombroso and Guglielmo Ferrero Translated and with a new introduction by Nicole Hahn Rafter and Mary Gibson (2004) Durham: Duke University Press,...

Risk and protective factors related to offending: results from a Chinese cohort study.
December 15, 2004... Recent research has illustrated the importance of risk and protective factors on offending. The current study examines survey data from a sample of 81 offenders and 81 nonoffenders residing in Wuhan, China, in 1991/92 to determine how the...

Patterns of juvenile offending in Shanghai and Brisbane.
December 15, 2004... This paper reports an analysis of participation rates and types of delinquent behaviour using self-reported offending data from school students and apprehended juvenile offenders in Brisbane (n = 903) and in Shanghai (n = 565).The rate of...

Juvenile protection and delinquency prevention policies in China.
December 15, 2004... This paper describes the laws designed especially for the purposes of protecting juveniles and preventing delinquency in China. The Juvenile Protection Law 1991 and Preventing Juvenile Delinquency Law 1999 have defined the duties,...

Moral panics, crime rates and harsh punishment in China.
December 15, 2004... Today's extremely harsh sentencing regime in China, which includes extensive use of the death penalty, was triggered in particular by a moral panic about juvenile crime and to some extent economic crime in the early 1980s. The policy was...

Govern police by law (yifa zhijing) in China.
December 15, 2004... This article is a first attempt to investigate into and report on the People's Republic of China police law reform effort--objectives, process and result--since 1978. In so doing, the article catalogues the past, describes the present, and...

In the eyes of Hong Kong Chinese female drug offenders.
December 15, 2004... The rehabilitative model of probation with its inherent social work values, knowledge and methods of intervention remains the dominant approach to the supervision of offenders in Hong Kong. The major aim of this paper is to look at the...

Social transition and crime in China: an economic motivation thesis.
December 15, 2004... Perspectives on crime and social change are limited because few studies have examined the transition from state socialism to a market economy. This article proposes an economic motivation thesis, arguing that the introduction of market...