The Australian and New Zealand Crime Prevention Senior Officers' Group (ANZCP SOG) provides a national forum for senior crime prevention staff from each State and Territory as well as Commonwealth and New Zealand government to exchange and share information about crime prevention practices. The ANZCP SOG aims to: • BLOCKINsupport strategic thinking and policy development on crime prevention iss...

Nothing is less logical than to try to be too logical: nothing is more imprudent than to try to maintain theories ... if they are going to upset the order of society ... the sociologist must observe still greater circumspection, for if he puts into operation innovations of an upsetting nature he will simply succeed in demonstrating the uselessness and inefficiency of his science (Lombroso, cite...

This article explores the articulation of a novel forensic object-the 'crime scene'-and its corresponding expert-the investigating officer. Through a detailed engagement with the work of the late nineteenth-century Austrian jurist and criminalist Hans Gross, it analyses the dynamic and reflexive nature of this model of 'CSI', emphasising the material, physical, psychological and instrumental me...

Title: ASSESSING THE CITY-LEVEL IMPACT OF DRUG COURTS ON CRIME RATES, 19852000. Erin Anderson Orrick, Master of Arts, 2005 Directed By: Professor Gary LaFree Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice Drug court effectiveness is widely debated within the literature. Numerous evaluations of individual drug courts have been conducted, however, only recently has a consensus begun to emerge abo...

to date. The task he sets himself, j! describe the penal system in Britai" in theory, law and practice, is a' enormous one and, in so far as tb'| is possible within the covers of of1 volume, he succeeds. What is oUl standing is his approach: instead the usual airy-fairy theorising, 1 which criminology all too readi' lends itself, Dr. Walker introduce scientific methodology. Not only thj but whe...

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OF DISSERTATION Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the field of Criminology and Justice Policy Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts, April, 2011