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DOI10.1177/0004865811419069
Published date01 December 2011
Date01 December 2011
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Australian & New Zealand
Journal of Criminology
44(3) 333–334
Editorial
! The Author(s) 2011
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The resources boom in Western Australia is the focus of Carrington, Hogg and
McIntosh’s study of crime and violence in mining towns. The distribution of the
economic benef‌its of the resources boom has been subject to signif‌icant political
debate. This article analyses the social consequences including violence and crime in
the context of transient and masculinized communities. Conceptually important is
the authors’ account of the interaction of individualized acts of violence and harm
in relation to the regulation of corporate harms and responsibilities in the mining
industry.
Knepper of‌fers an important theoretical and historical insight into the work of
Lombroso. It is part of an increasingly complex story of Lombroso the person, and
the social and historical context in which he worked. His defence of Jews and in par-
ticular his responses to anti-Semitic claims of criminality and Jewishness is used to
evidence a political intervention by an ‘objective’ scientist.
The bulk of this issue considers the careful analyses of criminal justice responses to
various law and order threats and anxieties. Politicians routinely hold up public opinion
on sentencing as a barometer of sentencing practices. The Victorian government has
embarked on an online survey asking respondents to comment on prison terms and
other penalties, and similar devices have been mobilized in other jurisdictions. While
easily recognizable as a cheap and unscientif‌ic way to generate discontent, such initia-
tives play to generalized fears and anxieties around safety and victimization without
allowing respondents time for careful ref‌lection on the circumstances of individual cases.
In this environment the...

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