A Decade of the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology 1968–1977

A brief overview of quantitative criminology in Australasia: 1981–1995

“…: 67.4% of the 396 authors in the 1981-1995 period were based at universities, compared with 56.6% prior to 1980. A further one in five (19.9%) of the authors publishing between 1981 and 1995 was employed by a government research agency, which is almost certainly higher than in the pre-1980 period, although O'Connor (1980) does not give the figure. Only 10.1% of 1981-1995 authors were clearly identifiable as criminal justice professionals or as welfare workers, many fewer than the approximately 40% identified by O'Connor.…”

“…Criminol., O'Connor (1980) concluded that the journal had "provided a forum for the presentation of a very conservative and limited interpretation of criminology" (p. 20), focused on correctionalism, treatment, and criminal justice efficacy. The tenor was positivist, but in a medical/social-pathological framework that rendered criminal behavior intelligible only within the context of its pathology.…”

Essentialism, Radical Criminology and Left Realism

“…Evaluations of the directions, character and contribution of Australian criminological research are rare, and there are as yet no substantial criminological histories either in general or of particular areas such as those provided in Britain by Taylor, Walton and Young (1973), Garland (1985) and Rock (1988). 1978;Wilson and Braithwaite, 1978;Hiller and O'Malley, 1978;Prisoners Action Group, 1979O'Connor, 1980;Zdenkowski and Brown, 1982;Boehringer et ai, 1983;Chappel, 1983;O'Malley, 1982O'Malley, , 1984O'Malley, , 1988Chappell and Wilson, 1986;Wilson and Dalton, 1987;Howe 1988;Hogg, 1988a Further, such evaluations as exist are restricted largely to post-war developments in keeping with the tendency to equate criminology with the academic 'discipline' of criminology and locate its origins in the early 19508. Of the few explicitly reflexive contributions, the most significant is that by Carson and O'Malley (1989) (but see also Wilson, 1973;Brown.…”

“…A content survey of the first decade of the ANZ Journal(O'Connor, 1980) found that most articles were 'either descriptive or research papers', predominantly within 'medical model, psychological or learning theory/socialisation' frameworks. In 1967 the Australian and New Zealand Society of Criminology was established, followed a year later by the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology.…”

The Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology Thirty Years On

“…The review also provides us with the opportunity to take a reflective, self..critical approach by asking the following questions: what sort of scholarship is represented in the journal and what might this be telling us about the current standing of the discipline of criminology in this part of the world?On these points, previous content reviews have given us mixed messages. O' Connor (1980), writing in celebration of the journal's tenth birthday, reported that "[while] it is one of the more important sources, if not in quality at least in quantity of the Australian materiaL .. it provides a Forum for the presentation of a very conservative and limited interpretation of criminology" (ibid. p. 12).…”