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36th International course on criminology

36th International course on criminology 288 BOOK REVIEWS (1985) 18 ANZJ Crim criminological researchers: to what extent official statistics accurately reflect true crime rates or represent police practices. In an extensive field study of three British regions, involving a crime victimization survey and study of official police records, they are able to quantify the contribution of real trends versus reporting bias in each area. Joan McCord's brief contribution deals with another major issue: whether court sanctions have a deterrent or a labelling effect on juveniles. The results, based on a longitudinal analysis of the famous earlier study, do not support either major theory, but unfortunately, no comprehensive theoretical explanation is proposed to account for these findings. Ross and Sales provide a comprehensive and detailed analysis of clinical training programmes in the United States. However, both the general issue and the specific content of this chapter have little relevance to the Australian reader. An excellent review of the effects of prison crowding on prisoner behaviour is given by Paulus, McCain and Cox. This article summarizes a number of high quality policy relevant research projects and will be of particular interest to penologists and correctional staff. Farrington and Gunn state that the aim of the series is to report the results of "substantial programmes of empirical research", together with literature reviews and theoretical articles dealing with the contribution of psychiatry and psychology to all aspects of crime and offenders. The current volume certainly fulfills this aim by providing some excellent topical articles on a wide range of issues. Some readers may question why the material is published in this format, rather than appearing as standard journal content. Farrington and Gunn claim that the series is designed to complement rather than compete, by presenting lengthier articles and theoretical contributions which are often longstanding. This may be more a criticism of the current volume than of the series as a whole, as it provides a more heterogenous collection of articles than is implied by the themes of the other two books in the series. The Australian reader may benefit less from this than the European or American counterpart, since some of the articles deal with issues specific to that country, and some are oriented towards local content. However, there is certainly enough to stimulate and inform both criminologists and researchers in related fields. MONlKA HENDERSON Melbourne Sponsored by the International Society for Criminology, the 36th International Course on Criminology will be held in Tubingen, Federal Republic of Germany from 1-6 September 1986. Subject: APPLIED CRIMINOLOGY For further information contact Professor Dr H Goppinger, Direktor des Instituts fur Kriminologie der Universitat, Tubingen Corrensstr 34, D-7400 Tubingen 1 Federal Republic of Germany. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Australian & New Zealand Journal of Criminology SAGE

36th International course on criminology

Australian & New Zealand Journal of Criminology , Volume 18 (4): 1 – Dec 1, 1985

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SAGE
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© The Australian and New Zealand Society of Criminology and Authors, 1985
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0004-8658
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1837-9273
DOI
10.1177/000486588501800411
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288 BOOK REVIEWS (1985) 18 ANZJ Crim criminological researchers: to what extent official statistics accurately reflect true crime rates or represent police practices. In an extensive field study of three British regions, involving a crime victimization survey and study of official police records, they are able to quantify the contribution of real trends versus reporting bias in each area. Joan McCord's brief contribution deals with another major issue: whether court sanctions have a deterrent or a labelling effect on juveniles. The results, based on a longitudinal analysis of the famous earlier study, do not support either major theory, but unfortunately, no comprehensive theoretical explanation is proposed to account for these findings. Ross and Sales provide a comprehensive and detailed analysis of clinical training programmes in the United States. However, both the general issue and the specific content of this chapter have little relevance to the Australian reader. An excellent review of the effects of prison crowding on prisoner behaviour is given by Paulus, McCain and Cox. This article summarizes a number of high quality policy relevant research projects and will be of particular interest to penologists and correctional staff. Farrington and Gunn state that the aim of the series is to report the results of "substantial programmes of empirical research", together with literature reviews and theoretical articles dealing with the contribution of psychiatry and psychology to all aspects of crime and offenders. The current volume certainly fulfills this aim by providing some excellent topical articles on a wide range of issues. Some readers may question why the material is published in this format, rather than appearing as standard journal content. Farrington and Gunn claim that the series is designed to complement rather than compete, by presenting lengthier articles and theoretical contributions which are often longstanding. This may be more a criticism of the current volume than of the series as a whole, as it provides a more heterogenous collection of articles than is implied by the themes of the other two books in the series. The Australian reader may benefit less from this than the European or American counterpart, since some of the articles deal with issues specific to that country, and some are oriented towards local content. However, there is certainly enough to stimulate and inform both criminologists and researchers in related fields. MONlKA HENDERSON Melbourne Sponsored by the International Society for Criminology, the 36th International Course on Criminology will be held in Tubingen, Federal Republic of Germany from 1-6 September 1986. Subject: APPLIED CRIMINOLOGY For further information contact Professor Dr H Goppinger, Direktor des Instituts fur Kriminologie der Universitat, Tubingen Corrensstr 34, D-7400 Tubingen 1 Federal Republic of Germany.

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Australian & New Zealand Journal of CriminologySAGE

Published: Dec 1, 1985

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