Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology articles from December 2006

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology archives from December 2006

Societal access routes and developmental pathways: putting social structure and young people's voice into the analysis of pathways into and out of crime.(United Kingdom)(International Symposium on Pathways and Prevention)
December 1, 2006... Central to pathways research is the analysis of the social processes involved in human action and the influences that have shaping qualities. At the heart of these social processes are human beings who exercise agency and help construct...

Taking the developmental pathways approach to understanding and preventing antisocial behaviour.(Australia)(International Symposium on Pathways and Prevention)
December 1, 2006... In this article I focus on the meaning of the pathways imagery from a contemporary developmental perspective and examine the contribution of a developmental pathways approach to understanding how young people become involved in crime. From a...

Adding social contexts to developmental analyses of crime prevention.(International Symposium on Pathways and Prevention)
December 1, 2006... To link analyses of contexts with analyses of developmental change, this article takes as a starting point ways of describing social contexts. Two are given particular attention: one in terms of available routes/opportunities/options, the other...

Risk factors and pathways into and out of crime, misleading, misinterpreted or mythic? From generative metaphor to professional myth.(United Kingdom)(International Symposium on Pathways and Prevention)
December 1, 2006... The purpose of this article is to explore how the notions of risk factor research and pathways into and out of crime have attained the status of professional myth. The argument it puts forward is not about the rights or wrongs of policy or...

Young people, pathways and crime: beyond risk factors.(United Kingdom)
December 1, 2006... Research and policy approaches to risk are recognised as falling into two cultures, most commonly referred to as artefact and constructionist. Moreover, within constructionism, a continuum of positions exists from weak constructionist in which...

Social exclusion, youth transitions and criminal careers: five critical reflections on 'risk'.(United Kingdom)
December 1, 2006... This article draws upon recent youth research in some of Britain's poorest neighbourhoods (in Teesside, north-east England). It stresses the importance of a qualitative, biographical and long-term perspective in attempting to understand...

What mediates the macro-level effects of economic and social stress on crime?(Australia)
December 1, 2006... Social disorganisation theorists maintain that structural variables, such as poverty, ethnic heterogeneity and geographic mobility, exert their effects on crime by reducing the level of informal social control or collective efficacy in a...

Leisure as a context for youth development and delinquency prevention.(International Symposium on Pathways and Prevention)
December 1, 2006... This article highlights the importance of leisure as a context for human development as well as for prevention of risky behaviour, including crime and delinquency. We offer a brief review and synthesis of current criminology literature that...

Going, Going, Gone: Regulating the Market in Illicit Antiquities.(Book review)
December 1, 2006... S.M. Mackenzie (2005) Leicester, United Kingdom: Institute of Art and Law, 290pp/ In November 2005, a major United States (US) antiquities dealer and an ex-curator of the J. Paul Getty Museum were charged in an Italian court with...

Handbook of Restorative Justice: A Global Perspective.(Book review)
December 1, 2006... Dennis Sullivan and Larry Tift (Eds.) (2006) Routledge International, xvii + 574pp, ISBN 0415353564 This is a very substantial collection of original essays that seeks to capture the full spectrum of thinking about restorative justice as a...

Juvenile Delinquency: Causes and Control, 2d ed.(Book review)
December 1, 2006... Robert Agnew (2005, 2nd ed.). Los Angeles, CA: Roxbury Publishing Company, xxv + 555 pp, ISBN 1931719225. Understanding the complexity underlying the causes and consequences of juvenile delinquency has captured the minds of criminologists...