Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology articles from December 2008

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology archives from December 2008

Durkheim and criminology: reconstructing the legacy. (Emile Durkheim)
December 1, 2008... The article offers an overview of Emile Durkheim's substantial and surprisingly diverse legacy for criminology. This is shown to run the gamut from positivism through to social constructivism. Further, it includes insights into deviance, social...

Understanding juvenile offending trajectories. (Australia)
December 1, 2008... A considerable amount of international research has adopted a criminal careers framework to improve our understanding of offending patterns across the life course. Recent innovations in statistical modelling techniques such as Semi-Parametric...

When penal populism stops: legitimacy, scandal and the power to punish in New Zealand.
December 1, 2008... This article examines the relationship between the concept of legitimacy and the power to punish in modern society. It argues that the rise of penal populism is related to the way in which criminal justice elites steadily lost legitimacy in the...

Another one bites the dust: recent initiatives in correctional reform in New Zealand.
December 1, 2008... Since the end of the 19th century, New Zealand has experimented with a variety of correctional ideas, the majority of which have imitated progressive initiatives taken overseas. However, none of the earlier attempts proved effective in reducing...

Mandatory sentences in South Africa: lessons for Australia?
December 1, 2008... Many of the most serious crimes that can be committed in South Africa are, since 1998, subject to mandatory minimum sentences prescribed in legislation. This legislation was originally introduced as a short-term measure, yet has now become a...

A general strain theory of racial differences in criminal offending.
December 1, 2008... Since 1992, General Strain Theory (GST) has earned strong empirical support and has been applied to several key correlates of crime (e.g., age, sex, community), but researchers have yet to fully consider how GST may aid in explaining racial...