Recently added articles from Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology:
Intersections between in-court procedures and the production of guilty pleas.(Australia)
Apr 01, 2009; ... In Australia (as elsewhere) most criminal defendants plead guilty and do not contest the charges at trial. Our research suggests that guilty pleas can result from ah intersectional process, in which in-court events interact with out-of-court activities and discussions. This article draws ...
Offenders' perceptions of the sentencing process: a study of deterrence and stigmatisation in the New South Wales Children's Court.
Apr 01, 2009; ... The criminal court system remains society's pre-eminent response to criminal activity, despite recent innovations such as youth justice conferences. Little is known, however, about the impact of an appearance before court and, in particular, whether subjective reactions to the court ...
Does indigeneity matter? Sentencing Indigenous offenders in South Australia's higher courts.
Apr 01, 2009; ... In Australia, research investigating Indigenous differences in sentencing is limited. This study examines the impact of offenders' Indigenous status on the decision to imprison and length of imprisonment in South Australia's Higher Courts. Results indicate that Indigenous offenders were ...
The weight of the Sword of Damocles: a reconviction analysis of suspended sentences in Tasmania.
Apr 01, 2009; ... Suspended sentences are a widely used but controversial sentencing disposition. This article presents reconviction rates for all sentences imposed over a 2-year period in the Tasmanian Supreme Court, as well as examining different outcomes on the basis of key sentencing variables, ...
Disbelieving suspense: suspended sentences of imprisonment and public confidence in the criminal justice system.
Apr 01, 2009; ... This article examines the ambivalent nature of suspended sentences of imprisonment and public reactions to them. In Australia, and elsewhere, they have created confusion, have been in and out of political and judicial favour and have been repeatedly modified. The article discusses the ...
Notes on a scandal: the official enquiry into deviance and corruption in New Zealand police.
Apr 01, 2009; ... Since 2004, the New Zealand Police Service has been engulfed by a series of scandals relating to allegations that officers have committed rape and sexual assault and conducted inappropriate sexual relations with vulnerable people. Moreover, it has been claimed that other officers engaged ...
Durkheim and criminology: reconstructing the legacy. (Emile Durkheim)
Dec 01, 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 control and the law. Although broad in scope ...
Understanding juvenile offending trajectories. (Australia)
Dec 01, 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 Group-based Method (SPGM) have provided ...
When penal populism stops: legitimacy, scandal and the power to punish in New Zealand.
Dec 01, 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 post-1970s period. However, it goes on to ...
Another one bites the dust: recent initiatives in correctional reform in New Zealand.
Dec 01, 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 recidivist rates. Undeterred, in recent ...
Mandatory sentences in South Africa: lessons for Australia?
Dec 01, 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 permanent fixture. This article looks critically ...
A general strain theory of racial differences in criminal offending.
Dec 01, 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 differences in offending. While most explanations ...
Promoting the theory and practice of criminology: The Australian and New Zealand Society of Criminology and its founding moment.
Aug 01, 2008; ... The Australian New Zealand Society of Criminology was an initiative of Australia s first criminology department, at Melbourne, from where the proposal to establish a journal also evolved. The society was of its time, its priorities reflecting above all the negligible research knowledge of ...
Theories of indigenous violence: a preliminary empirical assessment.(Australia)
Aug 01, 2008; ... A number of theories have been put forward to explain the high level of violence among Australia's Indigenous population. Up until 2002, lack of suitable data on the risk factors associated with Indigenous violent victimisation made it very difficult to assess the adequacy of these ...
'The last fleet': crime, reformation, and punishment in Western Australia after 1868.
Aug 01, 2008; ... This article reexamines the theories of John Braithwaite published in 2001 in the light of recently analysed historical court data. He argued that transported men and women enjoyed better conditions and better life chances than those who were imprisoned in British jails, and that the ...
School-based drug prevention programs: a review of what works.(Australia)
Aug 01, 2008; ... This article examines the effectiveness of school-based drug prevention programs in preventing illicit drug use. Our article reports the results of a systematic review of the evaluation literature to answer three fundamental questions: (I) do school-based drug prevention programs reduce ...
Criminology's darkest hour: biocriminology in Nazi Germany.
Aug 01, 2008; ... This article deals with criminology and its effects during Hitler's Third Reich (1933-1945). For comparative purposes, it also examines the nature and effects of criminology in fascist Italy (1922-1943). In both states, criminology became an extension of political power, but only in Nazi ...
Predictors of indigenous arrest: an exploratory study. (Australia)
Aug 01, 2008; ... The Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody attributed Indigenous overrepresentation in the criminal justice system to Indigenous disadvantage. Others have attributed it to alcohol abuse and substance use and/or passive welfare dependence. To date, however, there has been little ...
J.V. Barry: A Life.(Book review)
Aug 01, 2008; ... JV Barry--A Life By Hark Finnane (with the assistance of John Myrtle) (2007) Sydney: UNSW Press, xiv + 322 pp, ISBN 978 086840 845 3 The Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology published its first issue in 1967. The preface to that issue was ...
Writing Reports for Court: A Practical Guide for Psychologists Working in Forensic Contexts.(Book review)
Aug 01, 2008; ... Writing Reports for Court: A Practical Guide for Psychologists Working in Forensic Contexts by Jack White, Andrew Day and Louisa Hackett 2007; Australian Academic Press; 198 pages, ISBN 9781875378807 Some years ago, when I was teaching a postgraduate course ...