Recently added articles from Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology:
Female violent offenders: moral panics or more serious offenders?
Apr 01, 2008; Kruttschnitt, Candace ... Nearly 40 years ago, in research conducted for the National Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence, Ward and his colleagues, asked 'Are women more aggressive in committing violent crimes today than in the past?' The reason they asked this question, and others have continued ...
Temporal, situational and interactional features of women's violent conflicts.
Apr 01, 2008; Mullins, Christopher W. ... This article examines contextual and situational influences on the processural development of women's violent conflicts. Through close analysis of 3 women's accounts of their disputes and associated violent behaviours, we provide a rich description of how such events evolved over time and ...
Working 'the code': on girls, gender, and inner-city violence.
Apr 01, 2008; Jones, Nikki ... Much attention is given to young men's experience with inner-city violence; however, this ethnographic study demonstrates that innercity girls are not necessarily isolated by virtue of their gender from much of the violence experienced by poor, urban boys and men. Over time, both young ...
Understanding women's pathways to jail: analysing the lives of incarcerated women.
Apr 01, 2008; Simpson, Sally S. ... Some researchers suggest that crime pathways are gendered and that different paths may be revealed depending on the point of contact with the criminal justice system. Drawing from the feminist and age-of-onset literatures, we examine the life experiences of a sample of 'high-risk' women to ...
Girls, peer violence, and restorative justice.(South Australia)
Apr 01, 2008; Daly, Kathleen ... Drawing on the South Australia Juvenile Justice (SAJJ) project dataset, this article analyses youth peer violence ('punch-ups') with a focus on girl-on-girl assaults. My aim is to address and explain significant gaps in the empirical knowledge of gender and restorative justice, and in the ...
Battered women charged with homicide: advancing the interests of indigenous women.(Australia)
Apr 01, 2008; Stubbs, Julie ... This article examines legal responses to women charged with a homicide offence arising from killing an abusive partner and reviews Australian cases over the period 1991-2007. We focus on cases involving Indigenous women, due to their very substantial overrepresentation as victims and ...
Girls' troubles, girls' delinquency, and gender responsive programming: a review.
Apr 01, 2008; Chesney-Lind, Meda ... This article begins with a consideration of the interconnected troubles and needs that research has documented for girls who become enmeshed in the juvenile justice system. Special attention is given to findings from research that gives girls in the system some 'voice' in explaining what ...
Law and Order: An Honest Citizen's Guide to Crime and Control.(Book review)
Apr 01, 2008; Townsley, Michael ... Law and Order: An Honest Citizen's Guide to Crime and Control Robert Reiner (2007) Cambridge, Polity, 168 pages, ISBNs: 978-0-7456-2997-1, 978-0-7456-2996-4 Robert Reiner's latest book aims to chart the trajectory of both crime levels and law and order policy under the emerging ...
Policing the Rural Crisis.(Book review)
Apr 01, 2008; Fleming, Jenny ... Policing the Rural Crisis Russell Hogg and Kerry Carrington (2006) Leichhardt, The Federation Press, 246 pp, ISBN 9781862875814 Traditionally criminology and related disciplines have been concerned with crime and social disorder as an urban phenomenon. Street crime and the ...
Imagining the Victim of Crime.(Book review)
Apr 01, 2008; Antonopoulos, Georgios A. ... Imagining the Victim of Crime S. Walklate (2007) Maidenhead: Open University Press/McGraw-Hill Education, pp. 189, ISBN-10:0335 21727 3 According to the Left Realist tradition in criminology, there are four points/elements that make up the square of crime': (a) the offender, (b) ...
Outsmarting the Terrorists.(Book review)
Apr 01, 2008; Biles, David ... Outsmarting the Terrorists Ronald V. Clarke and Graeme R. Newman 2006. Westport, Connecticut: Praeger, 316pp., ISBN 0-275-99230-6 Clarke and Newman are both senior and distinguished criminologists who have impressive publication records and hold senior positions in prestigious ...