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43 Aust. & N.Z. J. Criminology iii (2010)

handle is hein.journals/anzjc43 and id is 1 raw text is: EDITORIAL Approaches to Criminology Agile. For sometime I have considered what may succinctly and (albeit too) gener- ally summarise criminological work emanating from the Antipodes, and specifically that which is published in this journal. Agile it is. Agility, as Pakes argues in this volume, is required to adapt comparative crimi- nology to conditions of globalisation and developing new conceptual and organisa- tion approaches. The mixture of explanatory and interpretative strategies needed to re-interpret the local in relation to the global, and indeed vice versa, requires lithe intellectual work, moving between the general and the particular in understanding crime and social controL. It also requires breadth of understanding of the local in distinctly foreign contexts, and a capacity to draw on the production of knowledge not only from the metropole but also those located on the intellectual and indeed geographical periphery (Connell, 2007). The 43rd volume of the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology demonstrates the agility of criminological approach and thought. The Chief Justice of Western Australia, the Honourable Wayne Martin, in a controversial address to the 2009 Australian and New Zealand Society of Criminology Conference consid- ers popular punitivism and the role of the judiciary. Why it is that Western Australia so out performs other Australian jurisdictions in the over representation of indigenous prisoners, and the recent escalation in this over representation? The answers are still to be found. Social capital is the focus of Brown and Ross as they explore women in the post release environment. The post release mortality rates of women makes such work urgent and compelling. Cross and Newbold consider the 'hands off' use of presumptive arrest in the everyday work lives of police in New Zealand when government policy and legislation has insisted on a 'hands-on' approach. The articles by Powell and Hutton consider the interaction between young people and emerging and more established cultures of communication and social space while Prichard, Ogilvie and Stewart, and Listwan, Piquero and Van Voorhis offer compelling empirical studies evaluating significant theoretical paradigms around restorative justice, rational choice and self-efficacy and white collar crime respectively. At the very least, readers of this journal need to be agile of thought, and open minded in their consideration of the pages that follow. The review section of the ANZJC returns a robust account of recently published books in the field. The importance of engaging with new works in a timely and energised way does a great service to advancing criminological debate. I encourage you all to consider contributing reviews. My thanks to Dr Mike Grewcock for his work on the review section. Associate Professor Sharon Pickering References Connell, R. (2007). Southern Theory: the global dynamics of knowledge in the social sciences. Sydney, Australia: Allen and Unwin. THEAUSTRALIAN AND NEW ZEALAND JOURNAL OF CRIMINOLOGY VOLUME 43 NUMBER I 20 10 P iii iii

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