ACAP Learning Resources: CRIM2014 Applied Criminology: Literature Review

This assignment builds on the Annotated Bibliography assignment. Please use the resources on the Annotated Bibliography page for search tips and examples.

Literature Review 2025, T2

The guidance on this page relates to criminology. There is also an excellent generic literature review pathfinder available here.

Article: How to write a literature review
Denney, A.S., & Tewksbury, R. (2012). How to write a literature review. Journal of Criminal Justice Education, 24(2), 218-234
SUNY Thesis Generator
This tool may assist you in formulating your topic. Use it to play around with words/concepts and then come up with your own literature review topic.
See the Writing & Referencing Page on the Left too.

Suggestions (remember that you will have to add a specific group as well)

drink spiking and crime reporting (e.g. people reporting/not reporting drink spiking to police)
domestic violence victims and intervention order effectiveness
domestic violence offenders and support/help seeking behavior
relationship between homelessness and crime
old(er) age and criminal offending
Online scam victims

The following documents contain literature reviews.

Thesis: Policing performance management systems: Identifying key design elements within a `new' public management context
Gillespie, J. (2006). Policing performance management systems: Identifying key design elements within a `new' public management context [Masters Thesis, Edith Cowan University]. Edith Cowan University Research Online.
Thesis: Reconceptualising Fear of Crime: Emergence of Crime Awareness
Jarrett-Luck, M. (2017). Reconceptualising fear of crime: emergence of crime awareness [Doctoral Thesis, Bond University].
Article: Ravenous wolves revisited: a systematic review of offending concentration
Martinez, N.N., Lee, Y.J., Eck, J.E., & SooHyun, O. (2017). Ravenous wolves revisited: a systematic review of offending concentration. Crime Science, 6(1), 1-17.
Article: Wildlife crime: a conceptual integration, literature review, and methodological critique
Kurland, J., Pires, S.F., McFann, S.C., & Moreto, W. D. (2017). 'Wildlife crime: A conceptual integration, literature review, and methodological critique., Crime Science, 6(4), 1-15.
Article: When Harry Met Salafi: Literature Review of Homegrown Jihadi Terrorism
Mellen, C. (2012). When Harry met Salafi: literature review of homegrown jihadi terrorism. Journal of Applied Security Research, 7(2), 239-252
Article: Fear of retaliation and citizen willingness to cooperate with police
Papp, J., Smith, B., Wareham, J., & Wu, Y. (2017). Fear of retaliation and citizen willingness to cooperate with police. Policing and Society: An International Journal of Research and Policy, 29(6), 623-639