Criminology Australia

This publication was the official journal of the Australian Institute of Criminology.

Vol. 1 No. 1 1989 - Vol. 7 No. 3 1996

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  • A judge for all seasons
  • Turning the page: reconsidering the police
  • News
  • DataBank - the figures that count
  • Violence the target
  • And the band played on
  • Books
  • Conferences

Volume 7 Number 2 : Summer 1995

  • Alcohol and violence - looking for a link
  • News
  • Turning the page: fearing for a town
  • DataBank - the figures that count
  • A Magna Carta for victims?
  • Books ...
  • Crime - a community fights back
  • Institute researches violence against women
  • Whistlestop tour for director
  • Conferences

Volume 7 Number 1 : Spring 1995

  • Heroin trial - yes or no?
  • The gun and suicide
  • Turning the page - Adam Graycar
  • News - people in crime prevention
  • DataBank - the figures that count
  • Crime in Australia - Justice Michael Kirby
  • Conferences
  • Books ....
  • Criminology Research Council

Volume 6 Number 4 : May 1995

  • Police accountability in a multicultural society
  • Interpreters: the quiet achievers
  • The compromised "conduit": conflicting perceptions of legal interpreters
  • Issues of access and equity: barriers to reform
  • The legal system's treatment of NESB women victims of male violence
  • Crimes against business: an overview
  • Feeling good at work: an antidote to workplace crime
  • Service pages

Volume 6 Number 3 : February 1995

  • Editorial
  • Crime impact vs. victim impact: evaluation of victim impact statements in South Australia
  • Customer service: a high priority for Victoria Police
  • Predicting the inmate population: an example from New South Wales
  • Queensland Police education policy development (1989-1993): the untold story
  • Social control and the violation of human rights: the relationship between sociological variables and serial murder
  • Service pages

Volume 6 Number 2 : November 1994

  • Hatred, murder & male honour: gay homicides and the "homosexual panic defence"
  • The WORC ethic: offenders working in rural communities Western Outreach Camp
  • "Country town policing" in the Australian Capital Territory
  • Battered women and duress
  • Victims of efficiency? Restoring "lost" victim information in the summary court
  • The rehabilitation of prisoners as an aspect of crime prevention
  • Police codes of ethics in Australia
  • Changes at the Australian Institute of Criminology
  • Service pages

Volume 6 Number 1 : August 1994

  • A blueprint for the future of the police
  • School children's peer relations and wife abuse
  • The over-representation of Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander people in prison
  • Violence in schools
  • Violence in sport
  • The last hanging in Tasmania
  • Service pages

Volume 5 Number 4 : April/May1994

  • Correctional reform in Queensland: at the Cross Roads post-Kennedy
  • Violence against Aboriginal women
  • Juvenile justice in South Australia - an update
  • Mandatory reporting laws: adolescents and their right to be heard
  • Policing excellence or political hot box for the Queensland Police Service?
  • Crimes against business: the future role for police?
  • Asian & Pacific Conference of Correctional Administrators
  • 8th International Symposium on Victimology
  • Service pages

Volume 5 Number 3 : January/February 1994

  • Listen to us: Aboriginal women and the white law
  • Learning from police work: a conceptual model for integrating evaluation into operational policing
  • Why do parents kill their children?
  • Youth and community combined action: a new approach to juvenile crime
  • Changing targets? Queensland's approach to crime prevention revisited
  • User-friendly prisoner forecasting
  • Inmates pages
  • Service pages

Volume 5 Number 2 : October/November 1993

  • Internal security in Papua New Guinea
  • The police culture: overcoming barriers
  • The administration of justice
  • Youth at risk
  • Alternatives to imprisonment for female offenders
  • Inmates pages
  • Service pages

Volume 5 Number 1 : July/August 1993

  • Children of God: harbingers of another (child law) reformation?
  • "Going off the rails": a profile of serious and repeat juvenile offenders and policy responses in Western Australia
  • Program evaluation for Australian police and law enforcement agencies
  • Dangerous places
  • Evaluation of the enforcement of Australian anti-trafficking legislation
  • Perspectives on justice
  • Letters to the editor
  • Inmates' pages
  • Publications
  • Conferences
  • News

Volume 4 Number 4 : April/May 1993

  • Violence in South Africa
  • Juvenile Justice - Police practices and juvenile crime: the case of Western Australia
  • Juvenile Justice - Policy or orthodoxy? Queensland's response to juvenile crime
  • Law Enforcement Access Network
  • Regional Heads of Prisons Meeting
  • Child abuse agency
  • Inmates' pages
  • Service pages

Volume 4 Number 3 : January/February 1993

  • Community policing in Papua New Guinea
  • The sale of insurance at Aboriginal communities
  • Understanding Aboriginal voices
  • Environmental Defenders' Offices
  • Law and the environment
  • Crimes against businesses
  • Victimless crimes and crimeless victims
  • HIV in Queensland prisons
  • Service pages

Volume 4 Number 2 : October/November 1992

  • Urban crime in Thai society
  • Women on the gallows in Victoria 1856-75
  • Coping with complexity
  • Is a trial heroin treatment program in the ACT feasible?
  • The cost of crime
  • They take them away
  • Recommendations from Aboriginal Justice Issues Conference
  • Service pages

Volume 4 Number 1 : July/August 1992

  • Juvenile justice in Victoria
  • Juvenile justice in Queensland
  • Juvenile justice in South Australia
  • Juvenile justice in Tasmania
  • Juvenile justice in Western Australia
  • Juvenile justice in the Northern Territory
  • Juvenile justice in New South Wales
  • "Send for legal aid"
  • Service pages

Volume 3 Number 4 : April/May 1992

  • Los Angeles and the pathologies of criminal justice?
  • Impressions of Papua New Guinea
  • Gender inequity in Australian courts
  • Lateral thinking in crime prevention
  • Rape and the sex industry
  • Client perceptions of community based corrections
  • May I shake you by the throat?
  • Ugandan Assignment
  • Service pages

Volume 3 Number 3 : January/February 1992

  • Victims of violence and the mass media
  • A national gun control strategy
  • Violence against women: the challenge to change society
  • The Land and Environment Court
  • Corporate Crime Group
  • Homicides and the death penalty
  • Service pages

Volume 3 Number 2 : September/October 1991

  • The 11th Asian and Pacific Conference of Correctional Administrators
  • Opening address
  • Statistics, research and development in corrections
  • Prison education, training and work
  • Discipline and grievance procedures
  • Prison and the community
  • Service pages

Volume 3 Number 1 : June/July 1991

  • Crime in Indonesia
  • Controlling violent crime
  • The prevention of child exploitation and abuse
  • Invisible victims in Indonesia
  • Corporate crimes in east and west: in search of 'collusion'
  • Crime and victimisation of the elderly in Japan
  • Legal consciousness
  • Religious violence: an international reflection
  • Service pages

Volume 2 Number 4 : April/May 1991

  • Capital punishment: an historical perspective
  • Victimology: the United Kingdom experience applied in Murray Bridge
  • Deaths in custody: the nature and scope of the problem
  • Community policing: implications for Queensland
  • Police culture and stress
  • Privacy Act in operation: some issues relevant to fraud control
  • Negotiating justice in the Children's Court
  • Service pages

Volume 2 Number 3 : January/February 1991

  • Citizens and corruption
  • HIV / AIDS and prisons
  • Communique
  • A legitimate concern
  • Compulsory testing and integration
  • Community policing
  • The international view
  • Implementation and the TRG
  • Service pages

Volume 2 Number 2 : October/November 1990

  • Violence in the Northern Territory
  • 'Protecting the community'— Prostitutes and public health legislation in the age of AIDS
  • Why the relationship between police and politics should be codified in Australia
  • The community solves its own crime problem — Development of the Safety House project
  • Nature of illegal offences committed by Asians and Pacific Islanders in Brisbane
  • Corrections in the nineties
  • Havana assignment
  • Youth crime policy forum
  • Legal textbases on CD-ROM
  • Service pages

Volume 2 Number 1 : July/August 1990

  • Limited by guarantee: limited to what? Guaranteed by whom?
  • Evaluating the committal
  • Counting rapes: reporting and recording practices in Western Australia
  • Can paralegals improve access to justice?
  • Infanticide and feminist criminology
  • The NSW view of committals
  • Neglected to death
  • Lives unlived: youth suicide in Australia
  • Criminology courses in NSW
  • Crime prevention in Telecom
  • Queensland Criminal Justice Commission - Research
  • Service pages

Volume 1 Number 4 : April/May 1990

  • Governor-General: change attitudes
  • After a violent robbery ...
  • Research into racist violence
  • Police powers and control of violence
  • Violent offenders in overseas prisons
  • Primary prevention of violence: the 1989 Australian Motorcycle Grand Prix
  • Why should we be surprised when wife-bashers change?
  • Examining existing drugs policies: the 1988 UN Convention - help or hindrance
  • Delinquency in India
  • Indonesian criminology
  • Service pages

Volume 1 Number 3 : January/February 1990

  • Insider trading research and law reform in Australia
  • Write on
  • Questionable assumptions in juvenile justice
  • How the family can help the juvenile offender
  • Examining existing drugs policies
  • Corrections in our region
  • Aspects of the Fitzgerald report
    • Fitzgerald: a report without findings
    • Fitzgerald: judicial culture and the investigation of corruption
    • Profile: Hans Joachim Schneider
  • Service pages

Volume 1 Number 2 : September/October 1989

  • Feminist criminology: a new direction
  • Write on
  • Young Vietnamese offenders
  • UN environmental crimes proposal
  • Concerned rocker, or, Oil on troubled waters
  • Low-crime landscape
  • Trends in imprisonment in Australia in the 1980s
  • Back end or front end, there's no place like home
  • Higher education courses in crime and social response in Victoria
  • Service pages

Volume 1 Number 1 : June/July1989

  • The rascal gangs of Port Moresby
  • Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC)
  • ICAC: a critique
  • Australian prison trends
  • Violence under scrutiny
  • New head of DPP
  • 'God, guns and guts'
  • Teaching criminology in South Australia
  • NAPCAN: prevention of child abuse
  • Service pages