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Top 5 Research Topics
ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)
Criminology | Criminology | Justice Systems And Administration | Criminology | Environmental crime | Criminological theories | Causes and prevention of crime | Police Administration, Procedures And Practice | Social Policy | Urban Sociology And Community Studies
ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)
Justice and the law not elsewhere classified | Law enforcement | Youth/child development and welfare | Understanding legal processes | Other social development and community services |
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Publications
Rationality and Rhetoric in the Corporate World: The Corporate Annual Report as an Aristotelian Genre
Publisher: Pluto Journals
Date: 09-2000
DOI: 10.1080/713692069
Abstract: This paper is part of a research programme into corporate annual reports. Reports do provide the information on the past performance, present state and future prospects which investors in listed companies require for the rational choices attributed to them. They also reveal the companies' responsiveness to the publics comprising the civil societies in which they are embedded. This effect requires more than strict rationality. To use Simon's distinction, the reports then entail both substantive and procedural rationalities. We argue that classical rhetoric and its recovery in the 'new rhetoric' yield useful approaches to the latter, and that annual reports comprise a genre in the rhetorical sense. We illustrate our case through generic features in the reports of the Australian-based multinational, Amcor. We suggest for future research that accounts of corporate functioning are incomplete unless they include the pre-structured interaction between companies and their publics which we have shown here through rhetoric.
The criminalisation of environmental harm
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 12-2008
Youth Gangs and Youth Violence: Charting the Key Dimensions
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 04-2006
DOI: 10.1375/ACRI.39.1.54
Abstract: This article examines issues surrounding the relationship between youth gangs and violent behaviour by considering the complex definitional and methodological problems surrounding these matters. By drawing upon a recent survey of school students in Perth, Western Australia, it highlights the importance of and need for developing increasingly sophisticated ways of interpreting youth group formations and group activities. For ex le, a distinction can be made between gangs and gang-related behaviour. The importance of gang membership and nongang membership in shaping social behaviour also needs to be acknowledged. We argue that most teenagers appear to engage in very similar types of activities, including violence. However, the intensity and dynamics of this behaviour varies greatly depending upon the type of group membership in question. Typologies are presented to show the differences in antisocial behaviour depending upon gang or nongang membership.
Transnational environmental crime threatens sustainable development
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 12-08-2019
Building NESTs to combat environmental crime networks
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 12-01-2016
Bullying and gangs
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH
Date: 03-2012
Abstract: Background : Although bullying is associated with gangs, questions arise as to whether bullying, as such, takes place within gangs. Objective : To provide a critical analysis of bullying as this pertains to youth gangs and especially to violence within gangs, and as applied to the behaviour of in idual gang members. Study group : Young men between 12 and 25 years of age. Methods : Review of relevant literature with a view to theorising the nature of the relationship between bullying and violence within a youth gang context. Results : Bullying is associated with the reasons why in iduals join gangs and with gang-related behaviour, but the violence within a gang is of a different character than that usually described by the term bullying. Conclusion : Bullying has implications for related and/or subsequent types of street violence, but is less relevant for descriptions of violence within a youth gang context as such.
Criminology
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 04-12-2017
DOI: 10.1002/9781118430873.EST0610
Abstract: This entry describes the main theoretical orientations of criminology as a multidisciplinary field. After distinguishing two approaches to the doing of criminology, it notes three broad levels of criminological explanation: the in idual, the situational, and the structural. The entry then considers a key conceptual ide within criminology that hinges upon whether crime is explained primarily in terms of in idual choice or is seen to be determined by biological, psychological, or social factors, and if so, how.
Corruption and the Securitisation of Nature
Publisher: Queensland University of Technology
Date: 14-11-2017
Abstract: This article considers corruption in Australia in relation to the exploitation and preservation of natural resources. In doing so, it examines issues pertaining to a proposed pulp mill and the forestry industry in Tasmania, the development of mining and ports in Queensland, and international agreements pertaining to deep-sea oil drilling in the Timor Sea. Corruption relating to the environment is interpreted in this article as implying both moral corruption and/or direct corruption. Gaining unfair advantage, protecting specific sectoral interests and over-riding existing environmental regulations are all features of the types of corruption associated with the exploitation of natural resources. The result is lack of transparency, a substantial democratic deficit, and expenditure of public monies, time and resources in support of environmentally and socially dubious activities.
Criminological Perspectives on Climate Change, Violence and Ecocide
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 23-10-2017
Controversies in Environmental Sociology
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date: 14-07-2004
Abstract: This comprehensive textbook deals with the key issues and controversies in environmental sociology today. Each chapter deals with discrete issues in a manner that captures the main debates, the central figures, and the social nature of environmental-related trends. The text reflects international developments in the area, as well as drawing upon specific case ex les and materials. It includes contributions from leading experts in the field, and is compiled by one of Australia's best-known sociologists, Professor Rob White. Written in an accessible language, with further reading lists for students at the end of each chapter, Controversies in Environmental Sociology provides a timely introduction to the subject.
Crime prevention, urban space and social exclusion
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 03-1995
DOI: 10.1177/144078339503100106
Abstract: This paper provides an evaluation of 'environmental crime prevention' from the point of view of the social impact of such approaches. The basic contention of the paper is that an understanding of the processes of inclusion and exclusion are, or should be, central to any plan which attempts to modify the environment in order to reduce or prevent crime. After a brief review of the general literature dealing with social space and the urban environment, the paper provides an extended discussion of the nature of environmental criminology, the relationship between crime prevention and social exclusion, and critical issues relating to the development of a more participatory and inclusive crime prevention strategy. The key message of the paper is that the benefits of 'environmental crime prevention' cannot be assumed. Planning decisions, allocation of community resources, the social construction of urban space, types of local government intervention and specific methods used by police all impact upon the nature and effects of prevention. Ultimately, for 'crime' to be addressed in a meaningful and lasting manner it is necessary to go beyond episodic social initiatives and approaches which focus predominantly on reducing physical opportunities and improving techniques of control, to implement strategies which see crime and public safety as stemming first and foremost from social relationships in the community.
Animal Abuse Resulting from Wildlife Habitat Destruction
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Date: 2017
Convict(ed) Women—Then and Now: Lessons of History for Today
Publisher: Queensland University of Technology
Date: 03-2023
DOI: 10.5204/IJCJSD.2765
Abstract: This paper explores the lives of convict women transported to Van Diemen’s Land (Tasmania) in the 1800’s, with the aim to better understand the process of desistance and reintegration for contemporary female offenders. Through an analysis of the penal systems which operated during the era of transportation, this research draws on historiography to highlight the importance of understanding the past in order to inform the future. This critical reflection on the history-criminology nexus reveals the impact that societal attitudes and social context have on criminal justice practice and policy, and ultimately an ex-offender’s chances of becoming a valued member of their community. Select transcripts of the lives of 1800’s convicts are used to humanise the statistics statistics which suggest shared experiences of trauma across both cohorts of women despite 175 years of separation between them.
Peer Support, Desistance and the Role of the Third Sector
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 09-2019
DOI: 10.1111/HOJO.12333
New Directions in Crime and Deviancy
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 07-06-2013
Environmental Issues and the Criminological Imagination
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 11-2003
DOI: 10.1177/13624806030074005
Abstract: This article provides an exploration of how the criminological imagination can provide particular insights into the nature of environmental issues. To illustrate the contribution of criminology to such discussions, the article provides a case study of the social, political and economic dynamics surrounding the provision of drinking water. The article demonstrates the complexities in determining the character, extent and impact of environmental harm. It furthermore identifies erse and at times competing approaches to environmental regulation and to the prevention of environmental harm.
The Criminology of Climate Change
Publisher: Springer New York
Date: 2012
Ywhaz/14-3-3ζ Deletion Improves Glucose Tolerance Through a GLP-1-Dependent Mechanism
Publisher: The Endocrine Society
Date: 11-05-2016
DOI: 10.1210/EN.2016-1016
Abstract: Multiple signaling pathways mediate the actions of metabolic hormones to control glucose homeostasis, but the proteins that coordinate such networks are poorly understood. We previously identified the molecular scaffold protein, 14-3-3ζ, as a critical regulator of in vitro β-cell survival and adipogenesis, but its metabolic roles in glucose homeostasis have not been studied in depth. Herein, we report that Ywhaz gene knockout mice (14-3-3ζKO) exhibited elevated fasting insulin levels while maintaining normal β-cell responsiveness to glucose when compared with wild-type littermate controls. In contrast with our observations after an ip glucose bolus, glucose tolerance was significantly improved in 14-3-3ζKO mice after an oral glucose gavage. This improvement in glucose tolerance was associated with significantly elevated fasting glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) levels. 14-3-3ζ knockdown in GLUTag L cells elevated GLP-1 synthesis and increased GLP-1 release. Systemic inhibition of the GLP-1 receptor attenuated the improvement in oral glucose tolerance that was seen in 14-3-3ζKO mice. When taken together these findings demonstrate novel roles of 14-3-3ζ in the regulation of glucose homeostasis and suggest that modulating 14-3-3ζ levels in intestinal L cells may have beneficial metabolic effects through GLP-1-dependent mechanisms.
Young People and the Policing of Community Space
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 12-1993
DOI: 10.1177/000486589302600303
Abstract: This paper explores the issue of the policing of young people in urban public spaces. Building upon previous work which examines how general community space in the urban environment is socially constructed, the paper discusses how aspects of police culture are linked to specific types of policing. It is argued that police practices are directed to protecting private property, maintaining personal security and at regulating the moral character of street life. In the context of a significant shift in the position of young people as consumers, it is suggested that the economic and social marginalisation of different groups of young people has fuelled an increasingly negative relationship between the police and young people. The contest over community space, and official state concerns revolving around “crime” and “propriety”, guarantee that social conflict will be heightened rather than reduced by current forms of police intervention in the lives of young people.
L’émergence et l’avenir de la criminologie environnementale1
Publisher: Consortium Erudit
Date: 19-12-2016
DOI: 10.7202/1038415AR
Abstract: Cet article propose une introduction générale à la criminologie environnementale et à l’étude du crime environnemental. Il examine l’émergence de cette approche, les concepts clés, les questions empiriques et les enjeux susceptibles d’être abordés dans les futurs travaux dans ce domaine. L’article s’intéresse entre autres à l’écojustice (relative à des types spécifiques de victimisation environnementale) et à l’écocide (liée à la criminalisation du dommage environnemental). Les transgressions touchant les humains, les écosystèmes et les espèces non humaines offrent un cadre général de discussion des types spécifiques de crimes et de dommages, de la pêche illégale à la pollution contribuant au réchauffement climatique. Une analyse rétrospective et un tour d’horizon permettent de tracer les grandes lignes conceptuelles, passées et présentes, de la criminologie environnementale.
Animals and modernity: changing human-animal relations, 1949-98
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 09-2001
DOI: 10.1177/144078301128756319
Abstract: In this article we provide an empirical test of Franklin’s (1999) recent contribution to the burgeoning study of human–animal relations. Drawing on the anthropological claim that animals are good to think with, Franklin used theories of reflexive modernization to explain a shift to increasingly zoocentric and sentimentalized relations with animals. After deriving a series of expectations from this account, we tested them through a content-analysis of over 1000 articles from one Australian newspaper over a 50-year period. Broadly, we found support for Franklin’s key claims. But we also found local contingencies and historical continuities which suggest limits to the sweeping theorizations of change in accounts of reflexive modernization.
Negotiating Social Change: The Paradox of Youth
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 12-2000
DOI: 10.1177/0044118X00032002002
Abstract: This article explores paradoxical elements in the relationship between youth and society. It argues that researchers need to take account of both the distinctive circumstances of the post-1970 generation and the new approaches they are developing to make a life. It argues that questions about how social structures and social isions affect young people's life patterns need to recognize the ways in which young people themselves are responding to new realities.
The Global Context of Transnational Environmental Crime in Asia
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Date: 2018
Policing the other: Lebanese young people in a climate of conflict
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date: 19-09-2007
Experts and expertise in the Land and Environment Court
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 17-10-2016
Communities, Conferences and Restorative Social Justice
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 05-2003
DOI: 10.1177/1466802503003002001
Abstract: The aim of this article is to explore ways in which community building can be integrated into the practices of juvenile justice work. It begins by discussing how the extent of community cohesion and societal resources at the neighbourhood level has a major bearing on the propensity of young people to engage in criminal and anti-social behaviour. The article then describes recent trends in the area of `restorative justice', in which the main focus is on in idual offenders repairing social harm via juvenile conferencing and through active recompense measures. Following this, the article provides a model of what can be called `restorative social justice', one that builds upon the conferencing model by attempting to fuse social justice concerns with progressive juvenile justice practices. The article concludes by describing a range of interventions that might be adopted in areas such as youth crime prevention and youth sanctioning processes. The emphasis is on `good practice' ex les of community building, drawing upon relevant case studies.
Dissent, Litigation, and Investigation: Hitting the Powerful Where It Hurts
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 12-06-2017
Environmental Crime and Collaborative State Intervention
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Date: 2016
In and Against the State: The Dynamics of Environmental Activism
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 19-03-2020
Crime Prevention
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date: 2008
Disputed Definitions and Fluid Identities: The Limitations of Social Profiling In Relation to Ethnic Youth Gangs
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 08-2008
Abstract: This article provides a critique of social profiling in relation to ethnically identified youth gangs by considering the fluid nature of social identity and the ambiguities of gang formation. It begins by outlining the nature of youth group affiliation and association, and the multilayered ways in which social identity is constructed. This is followed by a brief review of key propositions relating to youth gangs, derived from international gang research over the last decade. The final section of the paper presents two models of social profiling, one of which is based upon actual criminal events, the other on prediction of `risk'. It is argued that anti-gang intervention based upon a type of social profiling that net-widens will most likely compound the very problem it is intended to address.
Conceptions of ecocide and challenges for social transformation
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 05-05-2023
Routledge Handbook of Transnational Criminal Law
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 10-10-2014
Book Review: Mobile Banditry—East and Central European Itinerant Criminal Groups in the Netherlands
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 30-12-2014
Environmental crime and problem-solving courts
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 24-01-2013
Criminology, Social Regulation and Environmental Harm
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date: 14-04-2312
Youth Cultures, Transitions, and Generations
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Date: 2015
Public spaces, social planning and crime prevention
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 12-1999
Economic Adversity and Criminal Behaviour: Rethinking Youth Unemployment and Crime
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 12-1999
DOI: 10.1177/000486589903200306
Abstract: This paper argues that in order to understand the impact of youth unemployment on crime it is necessary to specify the particular social location and meaning of contemporary economic adversity. A starting point is an analysis of the collapse of the youth labour market. This has created high levels of youth unemployment, has dramatically worsened the educational situation of those who seek to leave school without high level qualifications, and has had major consequences for the income available to young people. These forms of economic adversity have direct impacts on the social lives of the early school leavers, and create a number of possible friction points with adults, such as conflicts over public space recognisable as the ‘mall problem’. We argue that there are particular forms of economic adversity which impact upon specific groups of young people, and these in turn may have consequences in terms of higher levels of recorded youth crime.
Researching Transnational Environmental Harm: Toward an Eco‐Global Criminology
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 09-2009
Explaining Support for Animal Rights: A Comparison of Two Recent Approaches to Humans, Nonhuman Animals, and Postmodernity
Publisher: Brill
Date: 2001
DOI: 10.1163/156853001753639242
Abstract: Questions on "animal rights" in a cross-national survey conducted in 1993 provide an opportunity to compare the applicability to this issue of two theories of the socio-political changes summed up in "postmodernity": Inglehart's (1997) thesis of "postmaterialist values" and Franklin's (1999) synthesis of theories of late modernity. Although Inglehart seems not to have addressed human-nonhuman animal relations, it is reasonable to apply his theory of changing values under conditions of "existential security" to "animal rights." Inglehart's postmaterialism thesis argues that new values emerged within specific groups because of the achievement of material security. Although emphasizing human needs, they shift the agenda toward a series of lifestyle choices that favor extending lifestyle choices, rights, and environmental considerations. Franklin's account of nonhuman animals and modern cultures stresses a generalized "ontological insecurity." Under postmodern conditions, changes to core aspects of social and cultural life are both fragile and fugitive. As neighborhood, community,family,and friendship relations lose their normative and enduring qualities, companion animals increasingly are drawn in to those formerly exclusive human emotional spaces.With a method used by Inglehart and a focus in countries where his postmaterialist effects should be most evident, this study derives and tests different expectations from the theories, then tests them against data from a survey supporting Inglehart's theory. His theory is not well supported. We conclude that its own anthropocentrism limits it and that the allowance for hybrids of nature-culture in Franklin's account offers more promise for a social theory of animal rights in changing times.
Professionalization and Crime Scene Examination
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 03-07-2014
Transnational Environmental Crime
Publisher: Willan
Date: 08-10-2018
Greening Criminology in the 21st Century
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 25-11-2016
The Routledge Handbook of Technology, Crime and Justice
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 24-02-2017
Introduction: Sociology, Society and the Environment
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date: 14-07-2004
Youth Gangs and Youth Violence in Australia
Publisher: IGI Global
Date: 2016
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-0988-2.CH050
Abstract: This chapter provides an introduction and overview of issues pertaining to youth gangs and youth violence in Australia. The first part features the voices of young people from around Australia describing their experiences of youth gang violence. The second part provides a broad overview of biological, psychological and social factors that together shape the propensities for young people, and young men in particular, to join gangs and to engage in youth violence. The final part of the chapter provides more detailed exposition of two gang members, 'Mohammad' and 'Tan', and the everyday complexities of their lives. The chapter concludes by noting that the gang does not have to be seen as an overwhelming influence in the lives of young people, and that their activities and behaviours are more erse, and include positive elements, than generally given credit in mainstream youth gangs research and analysis.
Issues in Green Criminology
Publisher: Willan
Date: 05-09-2013
Youth Gangs, Violence and Social Respect
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Date: 2013
Criminality and climate change
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 27-07-2016
DOI: 10.1038/NCLIMATE3052
Regimes of risk management in corporate annual reports: a case‐study of one globalizing Australian company
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 06-2004
Criminology and the UN Sustainable Development Goals
Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
Date: 23-09-2018
DOI: 10.1093/BJC/AZX061
Greening Justice: Examining the Interfaces of Criminal, Social and Ecological Justice
Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
Date: 03-02-2015
DOI: 10.1093/BJC/AZU117
A sociocultural understanding of mediated learning, peer cooperation and emotional well-being
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 24-02-2011
A sociocultural investigation of the efficacy of outdoor education to improve learner engagement
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 03-2012
Indigenous Young People and Hyperincarceration in Australia
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 11-12-2014
Abstract: This article describes and analyses the over-representation of Indigenous, young people in Australian juvenile justice. It contextualises this over-representation, through a brief discussion of colonialism and its continuing impacts. The concept of hyperincarceration is then used to describe the patterns of Indigenous detention, one that is overwhelmingly, disproportionate in terms of Indigenous status compared to non-Indigenous status. This article provides recent empirical evidence of the gross over-representations of Indigenous young people, especially in the harshest parts of the juvenile justice system. Alternative forms of intervention, such as justice reinvestment, are briefly discussed.
Prosecution and sentencing in relation to environmental crime: Recent socio-legal developments
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 23-01-2010
Critical Criminology and the Struggle Against Climate Change Ecocide
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 20-08-2015
Organising Responses to Organised Environmental Crimes: Collaborative Approaches and Building Capacity
Publisher: Academy of Science of South Africa
Date: 23-06-2017
DOI: 10.17159/2413-3108/2017/V0N60A1725
Abstract: The aim of this paper is to discuss the ways in which collaboration and a coordinated approach to dealing with criminal groups involved in environmental crime can be established and bolstered. The paper begins by examining the challenges associated with organised criminal networks and transnational crimes for environmental law enforcement agencies. Such analyses continually highlight several factors: the importance of collaboration in combatting organised criminal networks flexibility in dealing with fluid on-the-ground situations the importance of up-skilling in order to move laterally across different institutional and national contexts and the lynchpin across all of these areas, capacity building for sustainable practice (that is, putting into place practices and procedures that will ensure continuity over time). Various forms of collaboration are outlined as well as the importance of trust and relationships in maintaining cooperative arrangements. Case studies are used to illustrate contemporary developments that are bolstering the possibilities of enhanced collaboration in regards to environmental law enforcement.
Depleted uranium, state crime and the politics of knowing
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 02-2008
Abstract: This article explores the use of depleted uranium (DU) munitions and armour in war, and its impact on environments, humans and other animals. Specifically, the concern is to describe the use of depleted uranium weapons in the Gulf (over two wars, within the space of sixteen years), and to trace the health and environmental implications of this use. The article then analyses the use of depleted uranium from the point of view of state crime, in relation to the issues of legitimacy and denial. This is followed by consideration of the relevance of such issues for a 21st-century critical criminology. The politics of knowing—when `knowledge' is uncertain—is highlighted in discussion of the complexities of denial/affirmation surrounding the use of DU for war purposes.
Gangs
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 04-12-2017
DOI: 10.1002/9781118430873.EST0655
Abstract: This entry describes the main conceptual debates and theoretical explanations for “gangs.” After distinguishing between positivist (or realist) and constructivist (or critical) accounts of the gangs phenomenon, it outlines three key approaches to the study of gangs – those based upon analysis of class (and marginalization), gender (and masculinity), and race/ethnicity (and racism/colonialism).
Discourses of Discord: Animal Activism and Moral Judgement
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 03-08-2021
Older People Hang Out Too
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 07-2007
Water theft in rural contexts
Publisher: The Ohio State University Libraries
Date: 2019
DOI: 10.18061/1811/88725
Ethnic Diversity and Differential Policing in Australia: the Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 02-10-2009
Crime and the Natural Environment
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Date: 10-09-2015
DOI: 10.1093/OXFORDHB/9780199935383.013.84
Abstract: This chapter explores crimes affecting the natural environment. Drawing on insights from green criminology—the study by criminologists of environmental harms, laws, and regulation—the chapter examines the impact of environmental crime on the natural environment. It begins with an overview of the theoretical and conceptual lens offered by green criminology in the study of eco-crime and the natural environment before turning to a discussion of natural resources crimes such as illegal logging and wildlife trade. It then considers pollution offenses and the contamination of air, land, and water, along with issues of illegal waste disposal. It also emphasizes the importance of having the right kinds of laws and regulatory mechanisms, as well as the right kinds of environmental law enforcement practices and procedures, in responding to eco-crime. The chapter concludes with an analysis of overarching trends and the challenges involved in confronting environmental crime.
Hate crime politics
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 11-2002
Rural Victims of the Climate Crisis
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 30-11-2022
Youth Gangs and Youth Violence in Australia
Publisher: IGI Global
Date: 2016
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-9938-0.CH015
Abstract: This chapter provides an introduction and overview of issues pertaining to youth gangs and youth violence in Australia. The first part features the voices of young people from around Australia describing their experiences of youth gang violence. The second part provides a broad overview of biological, psychological and social factors that together shape the propensities for young people, and young men in particular, to join gangs and to engage in youth violence. The final part of the chapter provides more detailed exposition of two gang members, 'Mohammad' and 'Tan', and the everyday complexities of their lives. The chapter concludes by noting that the gang does not have to be seen as an overwhelming influence in the lives of young people, and that their activities and behaviours are more erse, and include positive elements, than generally given credit in mainstream youth gangs research and analysis.
The Children’s Court in Tasmania
Publisher: Springer Netherlands
Date: 2013
Green victimology and non-human victims
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 06-02-2018
Abstract: This article explores the tensions and interplay between human and non-human environmental victims from the point of view of eco-justice. The article begins by sketching out the broad contours of green victimology as a newly emerging area of intellectual engagement. Human victims of environmental harm are not widely recognised as victims of ‘crime’. Moreover, within the category ‘victim’, the non-human environmental victim is seldom considered worthy of attention. From an eco-justice perspective, victimhood can be conceptualised in terms of environmental justice (the victim is human), ecological justice (the victim is specific environments) and species justice (the victim is animals, and plants). Hierarchies of victims between and within each of these categories can be identified. One response to these hierarchies is to assert the notion of ‘equal victimhood’ (based on the notion, for ex le, that all species should be considered equal or that the natural environment has its own intrinsic worth). However, the eco-justice approach adopted in this article argues that context (both social and ecological) is vital to understanding and responding to specific instances of environmental victimisation. Particular circumstances must be taken into account in the conceptualisations of victimisation and in the moral weighing up of interests and harms in any given situation.
Social and Political Aspects of Men’s Health
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 07-2002
DOI: 10.1177/136345930200600301
Abstract: Men’s health has become an issue of significant public concern in recent years. Why and how men’s health has become a matter that is ‘taken seriously’ is reviewed. This is followed by an extended discussion of the relationship between specific features of men’s health and the social construction of masculinity. The article explores and critically evaluates strategies that challenge key elements of ‘hegemonic masculinity’, especially those that attempt to reconstruct masculinity via appeal to the notion of androgyny. The article concludes with discussion of social and political questions relevant to the pursuit of improved health for men in a period of major economic and social change.
Reparative justice, environmental crime and penalties for the powerful
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 05-10-2016
Resource Extraction Leaves Something Behind: Environmental Justice and Mining
Publisher: Queensland University of Technology
Date: 30-04-2013
Abstract: Environmental justice is concerned with the health and wellbeing of in iduals, groups and communities in regards to toxic environments. Within this framework, it has long been noted that oil, timber and minerals are extracted in ways that can devastate local ecosystems and destroy traditional cultures and livelihoods. Resource extraction is thus not socially and environmentally neutral but has a number of potential ramifications directly related to ecological wellbeing and human health. The aim of this paper is to explore the social injuries associated with the mining industry, especially as this pertains to vulnerable population groups. As the title indicates, a key concern is what resource extraction leaves behind and how this impacts upon local areas now and into the future.
Editors’ introduction
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 27-01-2013
Crime, Ecophilosophy and Environmental Harm
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 08-1998
DOI: 10.1177/1362480698002003003
Abstract: This article sketches out three broad philosophical frameworks relating to the human/environment nexus—the anthropocentric, biocentric and ecocentric perspectives. It is argued that acknowledgement of these different perspectives is essential in any analysis of environmental harm. To illustrate the importance of an `ecological imagination', each philosophy is considered in relation to the regulation and use of old-growth forest.
NO -GO IN THE FORTRESS CITY: YOUNG PEOPLE, INEQUALITY AND SPACE
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 03-1996
Share ownership in Australia
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 06-2004
Abstract: The rise in private share ownership over the last decade is an interesting but relatively poorly researched issue in Australia. In the expectation that relations between large companies and their shareholders are already important and will become increasingly so, we report exploratory longitudinal studies of two aspects of the interaction. Regression analysis of shareholders’ demographic and attitudinal characteristics, drawn from National Social Science and Australian Electoral Study surveys, shows what shareholders might expect from their companies. Content-analysis of corporate annual reports shows how two companies have reacted here we compare Coles Myer, the subject of recurrent scandal, with Amcor, as a model of corporate responsiveness. We conclude that widespread share ownership is conducive to increasing social tension across a range of dimensions.
Business in Action
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 03-2004
Abstract: As market relations become more pervasive, so the classical sociological issue of the tension between ‘economic’ and ‘social’ explanations becomes more salient than ever. Michel Callon has proposed that the Actor-Network Theory (A-NT) developed in science and technology studies provides a useful approach to this tension. In this article we outline his innovatively traditional ‘market test’ of A-NT, and then test and illustrate it through a contract between an Australian company and a transport logistics consortium that it fostered under changing conditions in its market. We exemplify Callon’s case for the co-emergence of calculative and cultural effects, and conclude that business in action is a promising research site for their global reconfiguration.
Redrawing the Boundaries of Criminology: Increasing Forensic Literacy by Including Forensic Studies in the Curriculum
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 12-07-2023
The Four Ways of Eco-global Criminology
Publisher: Queensland University of Technology
Date: 03-2017
Abstract: In charting out the ‘four ways’ of eco-global criminology, this paper discusses the importance of recognising and acting in regards to the differences evident in (1) ways of being (ontology), (2) ways of knowing (epistemology), (3) ways of doing (methodology) and (4) ways of valuing (axiology). The paper assumes and asserts that global study of environmental crime is essential to the green criminology project, and particularly an eco-global criminology approach. Specific instances of criminal and harmful activity therefore need to be analysed in the context of broad international social, political, economic and ecological processes. The article outlines the key ideas of eco-global criminology, a perspective that argues that global study must always be inclusive of voices from the periphery and margins of the world’s metropolitan centres, and critical of the social relations that sustain the epistemological as well as material realities and legacies of colonialism and imperialism. Yet, in doing so, there arise many paradoxes and conundrums that likewise warrant close attention.
Seniors in shopping centres
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 12-11-2015
Abstract: Many studies have examined issues of youth and public spaces however, less attention has been devoted to seniors and their navigation and experience of community spaces, particularly in relation to their sense of inclusion in, or exclusion from, consumptive spaces. This article explores the everyday experiences of seniors in four Australian shopping centres, two in Melbourne and two in Hobart. Based on a survey of 260 seniors (the majority aged 75 years or more), respondents’ perceptions of this environment are considered, including the reasons for visiting the shopping centre, and the challenges of accessing and negotiating the shopping centre ‘terrain’. The research findings indicate that how seniors engage with and navigate the shopping centre is influenced not only by the nature of the space itself, but also by their personal historical and cultural experiences. Where and why seniors choose to ‘hang out’ in shopping centres has implications for research into the social landscapes of ageing, along with public policy and shopping centre procedures. There is a need to consider both the social and physical well-being of older people in the shopping centre locus, and to take positive steps towards improving and enhancing their experience in an environment that is often used to provide a range of experiences that go beyond mere ‘retail therapy’.
Ecocentrism and criminal justice
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 08-2018
Abstract: Ecocentrism refers to valuing nature for its own sake. This ecophilosophical orientation requires that all social practices incorporate ecological sensitivities and heightened awareness of the intrinsic value of non-human entities. This article explores what ecocentrism means for criminal justice and how the core principles of an ecocentric worldview translate into concrete application. Trends within criminal justice that are broadly supportive or reflective of ecocentrism are summarized. The article also considers the limitations of ecocentrism, particularly in the context of criminal law and in regards to the prosecution of human subjects for environmental offences. A basic premise of the article is that for those interested in eco-justice and green criminology, it is vitally important to describe what an eco-just future might look like, and this includes recognition of and support for already existing ecocentric initiatives evident in some policies and practices across criminal justice institutions.
Shades of green: Change, continuity and conservation among Tasmanian forestry workers
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 25-12-2022
DOI: 10.1177/14407833221147060
Abstract: The Tasmanian forestry industry has undergone major transition due to industry readjustments and critique from environmental movements. This article focuses on how Tasmanian forestry workers think and feel about an industry in transition. Through the sociological lens of habitus, it investigates how these workers seek to behave in ways that they see as reflecting moral, ethical, and sustainable behaviour. Thematic analysis of semi-structured interviews is used to explore how forestry workers continue or alter their everyday practices and how their dispositions, formed in the crucible of the forest, shape these social processes. The article demonstrates that as structural changes transform the lives of workers, the people who live and work in the forest are nonetheless trying to understand, articulate, and respond to the changes in ways that they see as reflecting ethical and sustainable behaviour.
Environmental Horizon Scanning and Criminological Theory And Practice
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 12-02-2011
Social Planning for Mall Redevelopment: An Australian case-study
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-2001
Marshall, Mannheim and contested citizenship
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 09-2003
Environmental insecurity and fortress mentality
Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
Date: 07-2014
Key Vulnerabilities and Limitations in the Management of Hazardous Waste and Its Disposal: A Checklist Assessment Tool
Publisher: Scientific Research Publishing, Inc.
Date: 2011
Climate Change from a Criminological Perspective
Publisher: Springer New York
Date: 2012
Disrupting environmental crime at the local level: An operational perspective article
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 24-10-2017
DOI: 10.1057/S41599-017-0006-3
Abstract: The multi-dimensional nature of environmental crimes requires innovative means to combat them. This paper examines the nature and dynamics of one particular collaborative law enforcement approach directed at environmental crime. While much interest in multi-agency and multi-pronged approaches has been generated in recent years, especially as this pertains to environmental crime at the international and regional levels, this paper provides a detailed description of how this can occur at the local level. Based on a case study of nefarious activities relating to illegal waste management in Durham and surrounding areas (located in the North East of England), the paper emphasises the importance of ‘disruption’ as an important operational concept, and how inter-agency cooperation under skilled leadership and with clear purpose can lead to tangible enforcement outcomes. As the article demonstrates, particular agencies on their own have limited impact and do not always address the issue of how to take away an organised criminal group’s ability to function. By contrast, multi-agency work enables authorities to work in a united front and thus to succeed in disrupting criminal activities causing environmental harm.
Economic man and disciplinary boundaries
Publisher: Emerald
Date: 10-2002
DOI: 10.1108/09513570210440559
Abstract: This paper is an empirical response to two of Quattrone’s claims: first, that research in accounting is fragmented and then that this follows from the blocking of communication by intra‐ and inter‐disciplinary boundaries. Although we agree with much of Quattrone’s argument, and in particular with his problematising of “economic man”, we draw an opposite conclusion. Rather than looking to a trans‐disciplinary removal of boundaries, we use a survey of 30 years of research in corporate annual reports to defend narrowly disciplinary work. We make our case through discussing problems of intra‐ and inter‐disciplinary unity in research, the puzzle of the role of “economic man” in the study of annual reports, and the alternative to him in science and technology studies (STS). Our approach yields a better fit than Quattrone’s own solution with his aims of an evolutionary perspective that allows for historical shifts, and for a reflexivity that includes the inevitable entanglement of researchers in what they study. We conclude by noting that our approach is applicable to the study of corporate communication more generally.
Violence in the mosh pit: assault within the Australian punk scene
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-01-2019
Street Gangs, Migration and Ethnicity
Publisher: Willan
Date: 13-05-2013
Youth agency and social context
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 12-1998
DOI: 10.1177/144078339803400307
Abstract: This paper draws on ideas and research in youth studies in order to compare and con trast three approaches to the notion of social agency. The paper charts how youth stud ies commentators have generally relied upon either a 'deterministic' or a 'voluntaristic' conception of social action in explaining the life worlds of young people. It is argued that a 'contextual' understanding of youth experience provides a better appreciation of how youth agency is constructed by and interfaces with social structures.
Transnational Environmental Crime
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 05-07-2017
A Green Criminology Perspective
Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
Date: 2010
Corporate self, corporate reputation and corporate annual reports: re-enrolling Goffman
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 09-2002
The life of class: a case study in a sociological concept
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 08-2000
DOI: 10.1177/144078330003600206
Abstract: This study in the use of a sociological concept is based in recent sociologies of knowledge. The empirical material is Pakulski and Waters' (1996a) argument for 'the death of class'. Three anomalies are identified in their claim: puzzles of 'reflexion' (referring to a precondition that sociology be self-exemplifying) of 'repetition' (denoting an isomorphism between Pakulski and Waters' case and Bernstein's revisionism and of 'reception' (referring to the tension between Marxism and sociology). Each of these points to a form of disciplinary circularity, which can be accommodated if the concept of class is reconceptualised as a rhetorical topic. When their argument is re-read on that basis, Pakulski and Waters are seen to have exemplified what they have denied: that sociology displays the life of class.
Routledge Handbook of Youth and Young Adulthood
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 14-10-2016
Building Schools of Character: A Case-Study Investigation of Character Education's Impact on School Climate, Pupil Behavior, and Curriculum Delivery
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 2011
Water Theft Maleficence in Australia
Publisher: Queensland University of Technology
Date: 25-09-2020
DOI: 10.5204/IJCJSD.V10I1.1604
Abstract: The United Nations has repeatedly identified that freshwater security is one of the greatest challenges facing humanity, and that water theft is a global problem exacerbating human conflict, denying human rights and accelerating environmental despoliation (UN 2019 UN Water 2020). Australia is the world’s driest inhabited continent where water security is seriously threatened and constantly monitored by federal, state and local authorities. The devastating 2019-2020 bushfires across Australia serve as a stark reminder of the nation’s vulnerabilities to drought and the imperatives of water security and sustainability. Whilst some threats are undoubtedly climate induced, it is widely reported the ‘theft’ of water is playing an increasingly significant role in compromising Australia’s water security. This article provides a critical overview of the contemporary significance of water theft and its governance. It interrogates official documents of government inquiries, examines court proceedings, and provides a green criminological perspective on future policy, practice and prevention.
Australia: Containment or Empowerment?
Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
Date: 2006
Green Criminology
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Date: 2017
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