Australian and New Zealand
Journal of Criminology

A quality peer-reviewed journal of the Australian and New Zealand Society of Criminology Inc. Since 1967 the society has been promoting criminological study, research and practice in the region. Membership reflects the diversity of persons involved in the field, including practitioners, academics, policy makers and students. The Society conducts an annual conference and fosters training and research in criminology in institutions of learning, and in law enforcement, judicial, and correctional agencies. Its wider brief is to also promote and foster understanding of criminology by parliaments, governments, and the public.

The e-journal version of Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology is available in over 40,000 libraries worldwide including 90% of US college and university libraries and every major research library across Australia and New Zealand. It is also available as part of the AAP Online Collection and ALPSP Learned Journals Collection.

The journal's readership continues to grow with over 750 articles being downloaded each month.

Social Science Citation Index, Current Contents/Social and Behavioural Sciences 2006 Impact Factor — 0.308, Cited Half-life — 6.4

as well as PsycINFO, Scopus, AGIS,and CINCH.

Open Access Policy
Australian Academic Press adheres to the Open Access (OA) “Green Standard” for author self-archiving which allows journal authors who have published in an Australian Academic Press journal to post the peer-reviewed version of their article prior to typesetting on an online archive, repository, or website.

Editor
Paul Mazerolle Griffith University

Frequency: 3 issues a year                 ISSN: 0157-1532

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Aims and Scope

For over 30 years, the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology has been presenting a professional eclectic approach to the tertiary field of criminology by promoting quality research and debate on crime and criminal justice.

Features of the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology include:

• peer review of all articles
• a diversity of theoretical and methodological articles
• current ethical and ideological debates
• special topic features.

Disciplines covered include:

• psychology
• law
• politics
• history
• sociology
• forensic sciences.

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Editorial Enquiries

Professor Paul Mazerolle
Key Centre for Ethics, Law,
Justice & Governance
Mt Gravatt Campus
Griffith University Qld 4111
Australia
p.mazerolle@griffith.edu.au

Advertising Enquiries

Jenny Mouzos
Australian Institute of Criminology
GPO Box 2944
Canberra ACT 2601
Australia

jenny.mouzos@aic.gov.au

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Author Guidelines

To be reviewed for possible publication in this journal all authors must follow the instructions below and submit their manuscript to the Editorial Office address as listed above.

All contributions and general correspondence regarding editorial matters should be addressed to the Editor and sent to the Editorial Office. Manuscripts submitted to the journal must represent reports of original research. Manuscripts will be sent for anonymous review either by members of the editorial board, or by individuals of similar standing in the field.

All articles are refereed. Papers submitted to the journal must not previously have been published nor submitted for publication to any other journal.

Preparation of Manuscripts

1.      Papers should be submitted via e-mail in Word or RTF format. Authors who wish to submit their paper in hard copy format may do so by arrangement with the editor.

2.      Contributions should follow the format and style described in the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (5th ed.). Spelling and punctuation should conform to The Macquarie Dictionary (4th ed.). For matters of style not covered in these two publications the Style Manual for Authors, Editors and Printers (6th ed.) should be consulted.

3.      Documents should be double-spaced with minimum margins of 20 mm on the left and 35 mm on the right. Uncommon abbreviations and acronyms should be explained. Do not use underlining except to indicate italics. Full stops should not be used in abbreviations or acronyms (e.g., NSW).

4.      Use single quotation marks to introduce a word or phrase used as an ironic comment, as slang, or which has been coined. Use quotation marks the first time the word or phrase is used; do not use them again. Do not use quotation marks to introduce a technical or key term. Instead, italicise the term.

5.      Front page: under the title of the article only the names and affiliations of the authors appear. Qualifications, present appointments, and postal and e-mail addresses should be given in a separate section on the front page labelled ‘Address for correspondence’. A word count and suggested running head of no more than 50 characters including spaces should also be provided.

6.      Do not use any footnotes. Endnotes should be kept to a minimum and listed at the end of the text under the centred heading ‘Endnotes’. Acknowledgments should be placed at the end of the article with a separate heading.

7.      Tables should be at the end of the manuscript, not in the main text. Their approximate positions in the text should be indicated by the words, ‘Insert Table X here’. Horizontal and vertical lines should be used sparingly.

8.      Photographs, graphs and figures should be prepared to the correct size (max. width 80 mm single column or up to 160 mm double column) and each one supplied as an individual file, separate to the manuscript Word file. Include placement instructions in the Word document, such as ‘Insert Fig x here’. Figures should be in black and white line art (artwork that has only text and lines, no shades of grey or blocks of colour).

•     Figures created in Microsoft Word, Excel or Powerpoint need to be saved as PDFs. Figures created in a drawing program such as Adobe llustrator, CorelDRAW, Freehand, Microsoft Publisher or similar should be saved as EPS (encapsulated postscript) files. Figures created in Photoshop or with other photographic software should be saved with a minimum resolution of 600 dpi and in TIF format. Minimum resolution for scanned graphics is 300dpi for halftone work (e.g., photographs) and 600 dpi for line art, and these should also be in TIF format.
•     Manuscripts which contain special characters (equations, Chinese characters, etc.) need to be supplied as a PDF file as well as a Word document or RTF.
•     Prior to sending artwork, the separate files of figures, graphs, illustrations, and so on, should be printed by the author to test that the fonts have been embedded correctly and there is no distortion in the artwork (e.g., lines and fonts reproduce cleanly with no jagged lines or fuzzy edges), as any such faults cannot be corrected by the publisher.
•     A list of figure captions should follow the tables in the manuscript Word document.

9.     References should follow the format and style described in the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (5th ed.). Examples of citations are:

The theory was first propounded in 1970 (Larsen, 1971).
Larsen (1971) was the first to propound the theory.

Examples of references are:

Fisse, B. (1989). The proceeds of crime act: The rise of money laundering, offences and the fall of principle. Criminal Law Journal, 13, 5–23.
Zelinski, E.M., & Gilewski, M.J. (1988). Memory for prose and aging: A meta-analysis. In M.L. Howe & C.J. Brainerd (Eds.), Cognitive development in adulthood (pp. 133–158). New York: Springer-Verlag.

10.     Authors are expected to check the accuracy of all references in the manuscript before submission. It may not be possible to submit proofs for correction

11.     While manuscripts are subject to editing, the Australian and New Zealand Society of Criminology Inc. does not hold itself responsible for statements made by contributors.

12.     Copyright: All authors are required to assign the following rights in their work to the Australian and New Zealand Society of Criminology Inc. when publishing in the journal: the exclusive right throughout the world to first publish the work; the exclusive right throughout the world to reproduce facsimile copies of the work; and the exclusive right throughout the world to communicate the work to the public via online availability or electronic transmission (‘digital rights’). Authors retain all other rights and are allowed to adapt, reproduce and/or distribute (including via online availability or digital transmission) the words making up the original manuscript following publication (with appropriate recognition of its original publication in the journal). Authors are required to pay any monies received by the Copyright Agency Limited (CAL) to the society or to the publisher and any monies received from ANZSOC from any such photocopying or online transmission will be used to further assist the nonprofit dissemination of scholarly scientific and professional work through The Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology.

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