Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology articles from December 2005

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology archives from December 2005

'Boozers and bouncers': masculine conflict, disengagement and the contemporary governance of drinking-related violence and disorder.(New South Wales)
December 1, 2005... The links between crime, violence and male offending are now more deeply researched in a growing international literature that understands much antisocial and criminal behaviour as a social resource for the attainment and protection of...

Forgiveness, shaming, shame and bullying.(Bangladesh)
December 1, 2005... This study predicts self-initiated bullying from three variables: shaming, forgiveness and shame. Data were collected from 1875 Bangladeshi school children (60% girls; mean grade = 8.28) using the Bengali version of the Life at School Survey....

Assessing recidivism risk among young offenders.(Australia)
December 1, 2005... The development of a recidivism risk index for use with young offenders is described. A construction sample was drawn from the first 458 incarcerated youths in South Australia approached to undertake a routine standardised psychosocial...

Policing the rural crisis.(Australia)
December 1, 2005... Based on empirical research in a number of rural communities in north-western NSW, this article explores the dynamics of rural crisis as it is manifested in and through popular attitudes and campaigns around law and order. There is no denying...

Boys and road rage: driving-related violence and aggression in Western Australia.
December 1, 2005... This article reports on the results of a population survey of 1208 West Australian drivers designed to measure the prevalence of driving-related violence and aggression as well as perceptions of these behaviours. A clear distinction is made...

Unlikely friends? Oprah Winfrey and restorative justice.
December 1, 2005... In recent years, restorative justice has surfaced as a new criminal justice practice in diverse parts of the world. Often, it appears that these practices have emerged in complete isolation from one another. This prompts us to question what it...

Secret state, transparent subject: the Australian security intelligence organisation in the age of terror.
December 1, 2005... This article describes the secrecy provisions embodied in the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation Legislation Amendment Act 2003 (Cwlth).The article explains how these provisions curb freedom of speech and remove ASIO's activities...

Critical criminology and its discontents: a response to Travers' critique of criminal justice evaluation.(response to Max Travers, Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology, vol. 38, p. 39, April 2005)
December 1, 2005... In a recent article in this journal Max Travers advanced the view that criminal justice evaluation is boring, biased and beset with methodological problems. As evidence of this he cited (among other things) an evaluation of the NSW Drug Court...

Fair Cop: Learning the Art of Policing.(Book Review)
December 1, 2005... Fair Cop: Learning the Art of Policing J.B.L. Chan, with Chris Devery and Sally Doran (2003) Toronto, Canada: University of Toronto Press Janet Chan has deservedly achieved an international reputation for high-quality research on police...

Refugees and State Crime.(Book Review)
December 1, 2005... Refugees and State Crime Sharon Pickering (2005) Sydney, The Federation Press, 232pp, ISBN 1862875413 Noting the irony in the attempts of developed nations (referred to in her work as 'the Global North') to justify repressive refugee...