Recently added articles from Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology:
Formal evaluation of the impact of barriers and connectors on residential burglars' macro-level offending location choices.(Western Australia)
Aug 01, 2009; ... Previous research evaluating burglars' offending location choices has produced mixed findings about the influence of physical barriers and connectors on offender movement patterns. Consequently, this article utilises the discrete spatial choice approach to formally evaluate the impact of ...
Public satisfaction with police: the importance of procedural justice and police performance in police-citizen encounters.(Australia)
Aug 01, 2009; ... A large body of literature has demonstrated that when authorities use procedural justice with those they regulate, people will be more satisfied with those authorities and will be more willing to cooperate and comply with their directions and rules. In the context of policing, procedural ...
Calling the tune without the music: a psycho-legal analysis of Australia's post-sentence legislation.(Australia)
Aug 01, 2009; ... Australian governments have introduced legislation to detain or supervise sex offenders whose sentences have expired but who are still considered to be dangerous. In the enactment of these controversial laws, governments largely overlooked a significant body of empirical knowledge on ...
Social support and corruption: structural determinants of corruption in the world.
Aug 01, 2009; ... Corruption is a growing global epidemic. Our understanding of its causes is limited. Combining data from several sources, the current article tests the validity of social support theory in explaining corruption in an integrated structural model. The findings support our theoretical ...
Making cartel conduct criminal: a case study of ambiguity in controlling business behaviour.(Australia)
Aug 01, 2009; ... This article explores the regulation of cartel conduct in Australia focusing, in particular, on the recent decision to criminalise so-called 'hard-core' cartels. It illuminates three interdependent ambiguities in regulating such conduct: economic, moral and legal. The case study is drawn ...