Current Issues in Criminal Justice

Current Issues in Criminal Justice is produced by the Institute of Criminology Press and is the major Australian journal on criminal justice. Contributors include academics, researchers and professionals, who provide expert analysis of the many aspects of criminal justice. The Journal covers national and international issues, and has subscribers from many different countries and disciplines.

The journal features ‘Contemporary Comments’ which are at the cutting edge of the crime and justice debate. There are also book reviews and news of upcoming events in the field.

Latest issue

Current Issues in Criminal Justice: Volume 23 Number 3, March 2012

Issue Editors:
Dr Arlie Loughnan, Sydney Law School
Dr Murray Lee, Sydney Law School

Articles

• Caitlin Hughes and Steve James, Performance Monitoring of Australian Drug Law Enforcement Agencies: Impediments to and Prospects for Reform
• Nesam McMillan, The Tactical Payment Scheme: Configurations of Life and Death in the Context of War
• Martine Powell and Rebecca Wright, Professionals’ Perceptions of a New Model of Sexual Assault Investigation Adopted by Victoria Police
• Suellen Murray and Melanie Heenan, Reported Rapes in Victoria: Police Responses to Victims with a Psychiatric Disability or Mental Health Issue
• James McNicol and Andreas Schloenhardt, Australia's Child Sex Tourism Offences
• Penny Crofts, JaneMaree Maher, Sharon Pickering and Jason Prior, Ambivalent Regulation: The Sexual Services Industries in NSW and Victoria - Sex Work as Work, or as Special Category?
• Marietta Martinovic and Philipp Schluter, A Researcher’s Experience of Wearing a GPS-EM Device

Lionel Murphy Memorial Lecture

• Robert McClelland, Vigilance against Injustice in the Justice System

Contemporary Comments

• Nicholas Cowdery, Criminal Justice in New South Wales under the new State Government
• Liam Grealy, Inappropriate Powers under the Housing Amendment (Registrable Persons) Act 2009 (NSW)
• Janice Sim, Bridging the Gap: Thinking Beyond the State in Child Protection

Review

• Mark Findlay, Policing, Popular Culture and Political Economy: Towards a Social Democratic Criminology by Robert Reiner
• Angela Dwyer, Violence, Prejudice and Sexuality by Stephen Tomsen
• Janice Sim, Murder, Medicine and Motherhood by Emma Cunliffe