Alistair Harkness
Biographic Data
| ID | 5180287 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alistair Harkness |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alistair |
| FAMILY NAME | Harkness |
| SIGNATURE | HARKNESS A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of New England |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3910-3122 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Steal that car
This article seeks to better understand the increase in motor vehicle theft (MVT) in New South Wales (NSW), Australia, by answering three research questions: (i) what is the spatial distribution of MVT rates across Local Government Areas (LGAs) in NSW?, (ii) which factors predict MVT?; and (iii) do those factors play a more significant role in particular regions as compared to others? Using generalized least squares (ordinary least squares (with …
Balancing the Badge in the Bush
The demands and occupational hazards of urban police work are well-researched, particularly concerning officer exposure to traumatic events and high-pressure situations and its implications on officer well-being. However, often overlooked is the need to examine policing and its impact on the well-being of police officers within rural landscapes. This article considers the unique contours of officer well-being in rural Australia, assessing how it …
Crime, Peoples and Places
Rural Transformations and Rural Crime
This book explicates the many ways that rural societies experience change: whether that be social change wrought by new economic ordering of the globe centring on technology; or institutional change resulting in the way in which the state and market penetrate civil society in rural areas. These changes themselves pose conceptual and empirical challenges to criminology, to capture the rural experience of crime, victimisation and harm. This book is…
Rural Transformations and Rural Crime
Rural Victims of Crime
Rural Crime Prevention
Not all crime prevention measures are formalised or endorsed. When the state is complicit or turns a blind eye to criminal violence, it creates a vacuum for other actors to fill in order to control it. This has been the case in the Mexican state of Michoacán, where self-defence groups have emerged to protect their communities. Assessing the role of informal crime control and how it can interact with the criminal justice system, this chapter explo…
The Rhetoric of “The Mandate” in Contemporary Australian Context
The “electoral mandate” serves a useful function as a political weapon in competitive party democracies, notwithstanding the ambiguities, multi‐layered complexities and uncertainty of many of the issues which the concept involves. The diverse uses of “mandate” indicate competing ideas in Australian politics about the responsibilities of parties to pursue commitments made during campaigns and the extent of rights to govern. This article portrays m…
Triumphant, Troubled, then Terminal
More than 30 years have elapsed since the election of the Cain Labor government in Victoria in April 1982 and, given that only limited academic literature exists on this period of governance in Australia's second most populous state, it is worth examining in detail the Cain and Kirner Labor governments. This article sets this period in the context of the longer political history of Victoria, provides analysis of Labor's rise from electoral incons…
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Triumphant, Troubled, then Terminal
More than 30 years have elapsed since the election of the Cain Labor government in Victoria in April 1982 and, given that only limited academic literature exists on this period of governance in Australia's second most populous state, it is worth examining in detail the Cain and Kirner Labor governments. This article sets this period in the context of the longer political history of Victoria, provides analysis of Labor's rise from electoral incons…
The Rhetoric of “The Mandate” in Contemporary Australian Context
The “electoral mandate” serves a useful function as a political weapon in competitive party democracies, notwithstanding the ambiguities, multi‐layered complexities and uncertainty of many of the issues which the concept involves. The diverse uses of “mandate” indicate competing ideas in Australian politics about the responsibilities of parties to pursue commitments made during campaigns and the extent of rights to govern. This article portrays m…
Rural Crime Prevention
Not all crime prevention measures are formalised or endorsed. When the state is complicit or turns a blind eye to criminal violence, it creates a vacuum for other actors to fill in order to control it. This has been the case in the Mexican state of Michoacán, where self-defence groups have emerged to protect their communities. Assessing the role of informal crime control and how it can interact with the criminal justice system, this chapter explo…
Rural Transformations and Rural Crime
This book explicates the many ways that rural societies experience change: whether that be social change wrought by new economic ordering of the globe centring on technology; or institutional change resulting in the way in which the state and market penetrate civil society in rural areas. These changes themselves pose conceptual and empirical challenges to criminology, to capture the rural experience of crime, victimisation and harm. This book is…
Rural Transformations and Rural Crime
Rural Victims of Crime
Crime, Peoples and Places
Steal that car
This article seeks to better understand the increase in motor vehicle theft (MVT) in New South Wales (NSW), Australia, by answering three research questions: (i) what is the spatial distribution of MVT rates across Local Government Areas (LGAs) in NSW?, (ii) which factors predict MVT?; and (iii) do those factors play a more significant role in particular regions as compared to others? Using generalized least squares (ordinary least squares (with …
Balancing the Badge in the Bush
The demands and occupational hazards of urban police work are well-researched, particularly concerning officer exposure to traumatic events and high-pressure situations and its implications on officer well-being. However, often overlooked is the need to examine policing and its impact on the well-being of police officers within rural landscapes. This article considers the unique contours of officer well-being in rural Australia, assessing how it …
Crime Patterns and Interventions (5 works) · Criminology (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Political science (4 works) · Crime, Illicit Activities, and Governance (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Commonwealth, Australian Politics and Federalism (2 works) · Criminology (2 works) · Geography (2 works) · History (2 works)