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Published date01 April 2011
DOI10.1177/0004865811401301
Date01 April 2011
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Australian & New Zealand
Journal of Criminology
44(1) 3
Editorial
! The Author(s) 2011
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DOI: 10.1177/0004865811401301
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Dr A.A. Bartholomew, the founding editor of the ANZJC of‌fered his inaugural editorship
from his desk at HM Prison, Pentridge Melbourne. His editorial implored the Journal to
publish articles which take in a broad view of criminology. Notably, the contents of that
f‌irst issue concerned corporal punishment, the complimentarity or otherwise of welfare
and research (written by a doctoral student undertaking research on prisoner’s families), a
study of probation of‌f‌icers and David Biles’ f‌irst contribution to the Journal on the use of
tests post arrival at Pentridge. Now in its 44th year, and our f‌irst issue with SAGE, it is
timely that the ANZJC returns to broadly viewed issues of imprisonment.
The Guest Editors of this Special Issue have indeed brought together a broad reading of
criminology in interrogating the current state of research on prisons and incarceration.
Prisons and related closed institutions are arguably the most challenging sites for crimino-
logical research. As Mark Israel and Yvonne Jewkes have cogently argued, they of‌fer sites of
intense intellectual, policy-making, political and social challenge that criminologists need to
both intellectualise as well as emotionally process. Even research on prisons, undertaken at a
distance, yield moral challenges and dif‌f‌iculties that can rarely be neatly resolved. Similarly,
the landscapes and practices of imprisonment can be dif‌f‌icult to reconcile across place and
time and the debate between...

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