Research shows that young people who come to the attention of criminal justice agencies have multiple problems and experience high levels of need across all areas of functioning. Correctional agencies are increasingly influenced by the 'what works' model of rehabilitation. Andrew Day, Kevin Howells and Debra Rickwood outline a case management framework for rehabilitating juvenile...

Fraud is a significant component of female offending, and examining the dynamics underlying serious fraud is important if we are to understand the broader issues of gender difference in patterns of offending and imprisonment. Janice Goldstraw, Russell G. Smith and Yuka Sakurai demonstrate that, contrary to the previous welfarist and needs-focused explanations of fraud, women...

Whole of government approaches assume that because the causes of crime are complex and multifaceted, then preventive responses will be more effective if the efforts of all the relevant government agencies and community and business groups are combined into a single coordinated strategy. However, using the experience of the UK's Crime Reduction Programme, Peter Homel...

Technology has both facilitated and impeded the investigation of high tech crime involving computing and communications technologies. Computers have enabled vast amounts of data to be searched and analysed quickly, and files to be transmitted across the globe in seconds, but the sheer quantity of information creates considerable problems for investigators. Russell G. Smith identifies...

Courts have experimented with sanctions which require the computer of an offender convicted of high tech crimes to be forfeited, or which prohibit the offender from undertaking computer-related activities. Some courts have also imposed requirements that the offender's computer activities be monitored by a probation officer or that the computer have filtering software installed to...