Griffith University

Books 

• France, A. and Homel, R. (Eds.) (2007). Pathways and Crime Prevention: Theory, Policy and Practice. (PDF 1352kb) Cullumpton, Devon, UK: Willan Publishing.
• France, A. and Homel, R. (Eds.) (2006). Pathways and Prevention. Special Issue of the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology, 39.
  

Journal articles and book reviews

• France, A, Freiberg, K, Homel, R. (2010). Beyond Risk Factors: Towards a Holistic Prevention Paradigm for Children and Young People. (PDF94kb) British Journal of Social Work, UK.
• Freiberg, K., Homel, R., Branch, S., (2010) Circles of Care: The struggle to strengthen child developmental systems through the Pathways to Prevention Project. (PDF 63kb). Family Matters, Australia.
  
• Manning, M, Homel, R, Smith, C. (2009). A meta-analysis of the effects of early developmental prevention programs in at-risk populations on non-health outcomes in adolescence. (PDF 894kb) Children and Youth Services Review, USA.
• Denning, R. and Homel, R. (2008). Predicting recidivism in juvenile offenders on community-based orders: the impact of risk factors and service delivery. (PDF 736kb) Journal of Offender Rehabilitation.
  
• Shochet, I., Homel, R. and Montgomery, D. (2008). How do school connectedness and attachment to parents interrelate in predicting adolescent depressive symptoms? (PDF 102kb) Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology.
  
• Homel, R. (2007). Comment on Richard Tremblay: The development of youth violence: An old story with new data. (PDF 72kb) European Journal on Criminal Policy and Research, 13: 175-177.
  
• Shochet, I., Smith, T. and Homel, R. (2007). The impact of parental attachment on adolescent perception of the school environment and school connectedness. (PDF 197kb) Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy, 28(2), 109-118.
  
• Junger, M., Feder, L., Clay, J., Cote, S.M., Farrington, D.P., Freiberg, K., Genoves, V.G., Homel, R., Losel, F., Manning, M., Mazerolle, P., Santos, R., Schmucker, M., Sullivan, C., Sutton, C., van Yperen, T. and Tremblay, R.E. (2007). Preventing Violence in Seven Countries: Global Convergence in Policies. (PDF 388kb) European Journal on Criminology Policy and Research, 13: 327-356.
  
• Hay, I., Elias, G., Fielding-Barnsley, R., Homel, R. and Freiberg, K. (2007). Language delays, reading delays and learning difficulties: Interactive elements requiring multidimensional programming (PDF 1024k). Journal of Learning Disabilities, 40: 400-409.
• France, A. and Homel, R. (2006). Pathways and prevention: Concepts and controversies. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology, 39, 287-294.
• France, A. and Homel, R. (2006). Societal access routes and developmental pathways: Putting social structure and young people's voice into the analysis of pathways into and out of crime. (PDF 106kb) Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology, 39: 295-309.
  
• Manning, M., Homel, R. and Smith, C. (2006). Economic evaluation of a community based early intervention program implemented in a disadvantaged urban area of Queensland (PDF 195k). Economic Analysis and Policy, 36: 1-21.
  
• Homel, R., Lamb, C. and Freiberg, K. (2006). Working with the Indigenous community in the Pathways to Prevention Project (PDF 2126k). Family Matters, 75: 36-41.
• Homel, R., Freiberg, K., Lamb, C., Leech, M., Batchelor, S., Carr, A., Hay, I., Teague, R. and Elias, G. (2006). The Pathways to Prevention Project: Doing developmental prevention in a disadvantaged community (PDF 171k). Trends and Issues 323: 1-6.
• Freiberg, K., Homel, R., Batchelor, S., Carr, A., Lamb, C., Hay, I., Elias, G. and Teague, R. (2005). Pathways to participation: A community-based developmental prevention project in Australia (PDF 138k). Children and Society, 19: 144-157.
• Wei, Z., Homel, R., Prichard, J. and Xu, J. (2004). Patterns of juvenile offending in Shanghai and Brisbane. (PDF 1239kb) Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology, 37 (supplement): 32-51.
• Burrows, T., Homel, R. and Gallois, C. (2003). Women victims of assault: Age differences in victim-aggressor relationship and location (PDF 1653k). Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology, 36: 192-210.
• Hay, I., Elias, G., Homel, R., Freiberg, K., Ernst, R., and Jensen, H. (2003). Nature and extent of preschoolers' language delays in a disadvantaged community (PDF 2075k). In B. Bartlett, F. Bryer, and D. Roebuck (Eds.). Reimagining practice: Researching change. (Vol 2, pp. 41-47) refereed proceedings of 1st International Conference on Cognition, Language and Special Education, Gold Coast Queensland, 5-7th Dec.
• Elias, G., Hay, I., Homel, R., and Freiberg, K. (2006). Enhancing parent-child book reading in a disadvantaged community (PDF 64k). Australian Journal of Early Childhood, 31, 20-25.
• Homel, R. (2002). Review of Delinquent-Prone Communitiesby Don Weatherburn and Bronwyn Lind (Cambridge University Press, 2001). Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, 26 (4): 394.
• Homel, R.and Burns, A. (1989). Environmental quality and the wellbeing of children. (PDF 2714kb) Social Indicators Research, 21, 133-158.
• Burns, A. and Homel, R. (1989). Gender division of tasks by parents and their children. (PDF 739kb) Psychology of Women Quarterly, 13, 113-125.
• Homel, R., Burns, A. and Goodnow, J. (1987). Parental social networks and child development. Journal of Social and Personal Relations, 4, 159-178.
• Homel, R. and Burns, A. (1987). Is this a good place to grow up in? Neighbourhood quality and children's evaluations. (PDF 4985kb) Landscape and Urban Planning, 14, 101-116.
• Burns, A. and Homel, R. (1986). Sex role satisfaction among Australian children: some sex, age and cultural group comparisons. (PDF 717kb) Psychology of Women Quarterly, 10, 285-296.
• Burns, A. and Homel, R. (1985). Social inequalities and adjustment to school. Australian Journal of Education, 29, 76-91.
• Burns, A.; Homel, R. and Goodnow, J.J. (1984). Conditions of life and parental values. Australian Journal of Psychology, 36, 219-237.
• Vinson, T. and Homel, R. (1975). Crime and disadvantage: the coincidence of medical and social problems in an Australian city. The British Journal of Criminology, 21-31.

Book chapters in edited collections

• France, A. and Homel, R. (2007). Pathways and crime prevention: A difficult marriage? (PDF 85kb) In France, A. and Homel, R. (Eds.), Pathways and Crime Prevention: Theory, Policy and Practice (pp. xvii-xxiii; Part One, pp. 3-8; Part Two: pp. 197-201). Cullumpton, Devon, UK: Willan Publishing.
• France, A., and Homel, R. (2007). Societal access routes, developmental pathways and prevention policies: Putting structure, politics and culture into the analysis of pathways into and out crime. In France, A. and Homel, R., (Eds.). Pathways and Crime Prevention: Theory, Policy and Practice (pp. 9-27). Cullumption, Deveon, UK: Willan Publishing. (Reprinted from the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology).
  
• Denning, R. and Homel, R. (2007). The challenges of turning developmental theory into meaningful policy and practice. (PDF 85kb) In France, A. and Homel, R. (Eds.), Pathways and Crime Prevention: Theory, Policy and Practice (pp. 298-318). Cullumpton, Devon, UK: Willan Publishing.
  
• Freiberg, K., Homel, R. and Lamb, C. (2007). The pervasive impact of poverty on children: tackling family adversity and promoting child development through the pathways to prevention project. In France, A. and Homel, R. (Eds.), Pathways and Crime Prevention: Theory, Policy and Practice (PDF 107k). (pp. 226-246). Cullumpton, Devon, UK: Willan Publishing. (figure 1 PDF 60k) and (figure 2 PDF 17k) from paper).
• Homel, R. (2005). Developmental crime prevention. (PDF 185kb) In Nick Tilley (Ed.), Handbook of crime prevention and community safety (pp. 71-106). Cullumpton, Devon, UK: Willan Publishing.
• Fagan, A., Homel, R., O'Connor, I. and Teague, R. (2003). Adolescent victimisation and involvement in crime (Chapter 10). (PDF 1216kb)In J. Western, M. Lynch and E. Ogilvie (Eds.), Understanding Youth Crime: An Australian Study (pp. 171-186) . Aldershot, UK: Ashgate.
• Hay, I., Elias, G., Homel, R., Freiberg, K., Ernst, R., and Jensen, H. (2003). Occurrence of language difficulties in children and the effectiveness of a language intervention program. In B. Bartlett, F. Bryer, and D. Roebuck (Eds.). Reimagining practice: Researching change. (Vol 2, pp. 41-47) refereed proceedings of 1 st International Conference on Cognition, Language and Special Education, Gold Coast Queensland, 5-7 th Dec
• Homel, R., Elias, G. and Hay, I. (2001). Developmental prevention in disadvantaged communities. (PDF 87kb) In Eckersley, R., Dixon, J. and Douglas, R. (Eds), The Social Origins of Health and Well-being: From the Planetary to the Molecular (pp. 269-279), Melbourne: Cambridge University Press.
• Wimshurst, K. and Homel, R. (1997). The primary prevention of juvenile crime. (PDF 2942kb) In A. Borowski and I. O'Connor (Eds.), Juvenile crime, juvenile justice, and juvenile corrections. Longman Cheshire.
• Homel, R. and Burns, A. (1985). Through a child's eyes: Quality of neighbourhood and quality of life. In J. Forrest and I. Burnley (Eds.), Structure and society: A social geography of the city. (pp. 103-115). Sydney: Allen and Unwin.

Research monographs, reports and other papers

• Freiberg, K., Homel, R., Branch, S., Barber, L. (2008) From Micro to Macro: Identifying strategies to extend the reach of successful practice models in developmental prevention. (PDF 308kb). ARACY.
  
• Homel, R. (2008). Early intervention. (PDF 192kb) In New Oxford Companion to Law.
• France, A. and Homel, R. (2008). Developmental criminology. (PDF 225kb) In B. Goldson (Ed.), Youth Justice Dictionary. Cullumpton, Devon, UK: Willan Publishing.
• Homel, R., Freiberg, K. and Branch, S. (May 2007). Pathways to a better quality of life for children and families through smarter social systems. The Brisbane Line, May, online journal of the Brisbane Institute.
  
• Mazerolle, L., Spencer, N., Charker, J., Sampson, R., Wickes, R., Rombouts, S., McBroom, J., Shyy,T.K., Riseley, K., Homel, R., Stimson, R. and Stewart, A. (2006). Community Variations in Crime: A Spatial and Ecometric Analysis, Technical Report No. 1 (pp. 1-101), Brisbane: Griffith University.
  
• Homel, R. (2006). Open doors or prison walls? (PDF 66k) Griffith Review Edition 11 - Getting Smart: 173-183.
• Australian Research Alliance for Children and Young People (ARACY) (2005). ARACY Research Directions Project: A Consolidated Summary Report December 2005. Perth: ARACY. (I was Coordinator of this project, with Professor Jan Carter, and contributed much of the material for the report).
  
• Homel, R. (2005). The puzzles and paradoxes of youth crime prevention (PDF 424kb). Safer Society, 27 Winter: 204. London: NACRO (the crime reduction charity).
• Homel, R. (2006). As if children mattered (PDF 41k) ... New Matilda Policy Portal, September 18, 2006. Commentary on this article. Reprinted in Australian Children's Rights News: 41, September 2006, 12-14.
  
• Homel, R. (2006). As if children mattered...(PDF 110k). Lecture to Brisbane Ideas Festival, Sunday April 2, 2006.
• Homel, R. (2004). The Pathways to Prevention Project: One model for working in disadvantaged communities throughout Australia (PDF 532k). Key Centre for Ethics, Law, Justice and Governance.
• Homel, R (2000). Foreword to Mainstream Youth Organisations Task Force Annual Report 2000 (p. 2), Toowong, Qld.
• Homel, R. (2000). Best practice in crime prevention. In Partnerships in Youth Crime Prevention: Report on a Youth Crime Prevention Forum Jointly Organised by Families, Youth and Community Care Queensland and the Youth and Community Combined Action Network (pp. 29-37). Brisbane: Dept. of Families, Youth and Community Care.
• Homel, R. (2000). Blazing the developmental trail: The past, the future, and the critics. Youth Studies Australia, 19 (1), 44-50.
• Homel, R. (Ed.) with Interdisciplinary Research Team (1999). Pathways to prevention: Developmental and early intervention approaches to crime in Australia (Summary Report) (PDF 1596k) (48 pages). Canberra: Australian Government Publishing Service.
• Homel, R. with Interdisciplinary Research Team (1999). Pathways to prevention: Developmental and early intervention approaches to crime in Australia (Full Report and Appendices) (352 pages). Canberra: Australian Government Publishing Service. (full report PDF 2495k), appendices PDF 1758k).
• Homel, R. (1998). Pathways to prevention - early intervention. In A. Morris and G. Maxwell (Eds)., Youth Justice in Focus: Proceedings of an Australasian Conference Held 27 - 30 October 1998, Wellington, New Zealand (pp. 101-103). Wellington: Institute of Criminology, Victoria University.
• Homel, R. (1998). Pathways to prevention. In Crime Prevention Through Social Support: Proceedings of Conference, May 26, 1998, Parliament House, Sydney . Sydney: Parliament of New South Wales, Standing Committee on Law and Justice.
• Hauritz, M., Mackay, P., Hayes, H., Hayes, S., Prenzler, T., Homel, R., O'Connor, I., Western, J. and Lynch-Bloss, M. (1996). The final evaluation report of the Youth and Community Combined Action Program. Brisbane: Centre for Crime Policy and Public Safety (122 pages plus appendices).
• Hauritz, M.; Mackay, P.; Prenzler, T.; Homel, R.; Western, J.; O'Connor, I. and Hayes, S. (1995). Third interim report of the Youth and Community Combined Action (YACCA) evaluation. Brisbane: Griffith University and University of Queensland.
• Murray, G.; Wimshurst, K.; Prenzler, T.; Homel, R. and O'Connor, I. (1993). Youth and Community Combined Action (YACCA) Program: A framework for evaluation at the local level. Center for Crime Policy and Public Safety, Griffith University. (66 pp.)
• Vinson, T., Homel, R. and Bonney, R. (1976). A community study: Newcastle. In Commission of Enquiry into Poverty, Community services: Four studies, pp. 3-17. Canberra: Australian Government Publishing Service.
• Vinson, T. and Homel, R. (1976). Indicators of community wellbeing. Canberra: Australian Government Publishing Service. (70 pp.)
• Vinson, T. and Homel, R. (1975). Indicators of community well-being: problems and services. In Regional Funding under the Australian Assistance Plan. (pp. 6-17). Canberra: Australian Government Social Welfare Commission.