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Book Review: Alternatives to Criminal Courts

Book Review: Alternatives to Criminal Courts 286 BOOK REVIEWS (1986) 19 ANZJ Crim school, but who allege that doing well is not at all important are twice as "strained" as those doing very well and who at the same time think that it is important to do well (the former receive a score of "3", the latter a score of "1"). The authors have also followed the currently fashionable practice of not including the zero order correlation matrices upon which the path analyses are based, a procedure this reviewer would like to see aggressively discouraged since it robs readers of the data by which simple cross-checking could be accomplished. There are other matters of more substance which arise with this volume. The authors pursue a line of theory development that is social psychological and emphatically not sociological in character. Those unfamiliar with this particular translation of strain theory, for example, will be surprised that the issue of strain can be pursued without reference to social class. In fact, social class is not even included as a variable within the study. Similarly, the treatment of school experience omits entirely the issue of school organization and structure. In some respects, then, this research can be seen as http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Australian & New Zealand Journal of Criminology SAGE

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SAGE
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© The Australian and New Zealand Society of Criminology and Authors, 1986
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0004-8658
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1837-9273
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10.1177/000486588601900408
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286 BOOK REVIEWS (1986) 19 ANZJ Crim school, but who allege that doing well is not at all important are twice as "strained" as those doing very well and who at the same time think that it is important to do well (the former receive a score of "3", the latter a score of "1"). The authors have also followed the currently fashionable practice of not including the zero order correlation matrices upon which the path analyses are based, a procedure this reviewer would like to see aggressively discouraged since it robs readers of the data by which simple cross-checking could be accomplished. There are other matters of more substance which arise with this volume. The authors pursue a line of theory development that is social psychological and emphatically not sociological in character. Those unfamiliar with this particular translation of strain theory, for example, will be surprised that the issue of strain can be pursued without reference to social class. In fact, social class is not even included as a variable within the study. Similarly, the treatment of school experience omits entirely the issue of school organization and structure. In some respects, then, this research can be seen as

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Australian & New Zealand Journal of Criminology – SAGE

Published: Dec 1, 1986

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