Abstract
The conference papers explore the issues of privatisation of prisons; private policing; community involvement in prison programs; community based sanctions; cultural sensitisation; community crime prevention; and juveniles and privatisation. Examples of a range of programs operating in Australia and New Zealand are provided.
Proceedings of a conference held 30 November - 2 December 1992, Wellington, New Zealand
Contents
- Contributors
- Glossary of Maori terms
- Preface
Corrections
- Opening address
The Honourable Douglas Graham - Privatising prisons: principle and practice
Richard W. Harding - Some liberal and radical responses to privatising the penal system in Britain
Mick Ryan - History of contract management in Queensland corrections
Stan Macionis and Ross Millican - The challenge of change
Brian Dickson - Private adult custodial corrections in Queensland and the first wave: a critical reflection on the first three years - reform or regression?
Paul Moyle - Can the private sector do it better in corrections?
Christopher Foley-Jones - Privatised corrections: United States, Australia and New Zealand
Wayne Calabrese - Corrections contract management in New South Wales: the Junee experience
Ronald Champion and William Curnow - Economic aspects of prison privatisation: the Queensland experience
Allan Brown - Will privatisation impact forecasting for correctional services?
Stephen Carter - Private sector involvement in corrections
David Belton - Private prisons - a New Zealand prison officer's perspective
Steve Quinn
Private policing
- Private policing - some recent myths, developments and trends
Philip Stenning - The Australian private security industry: the need for accountability, regulation and professionalisation
Paul Wilson - The legal basis for the authority of private police and an examination of their relationship with the "public" police
Rick Sarre - Private policy and policing - does private enterprise have a role in delivering the output of public safety and security?
Stephen Hinds - Private policing - no way
Robert H. Smith - Contestability and cost-benefit in policing: the dilemma
Gavin McFadyen - Private security or private police?
Trevor W. A. Morley - The private forensic scientist and the criminal justice system
Michael T. Pailthorpe and Nigel A. G. Johnson
Community involvement in prison programs
- Private sector/community involvement in the New Zealand prison system
Terry Craig - Cultural development in New Zealand prisons
Helen Lomax - Kia Mauritau
Julie Te Urikore Lux - The Justice Whanau Hapu Advisory Committee
Rob Brangwin - Aboriginal community education and access unit community support for Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander inmates within the Queensland prison system
Lionel Fraser - Private sector and community involvement in the criminal justice system
Ralph Flavell
Community involvement and community based sanctions
- The changing boundaries: what place community organisations in change and reforms of the criminal justice system?
Eileen Baldry - Practical issues involved with the management of a home detention program
Brian Rogers
Cultural workshop
- Horouta Marae/Wellington Prison joint programs venture habilitation programs
Sheryn Elborn - Aboriginal customary law
Elizabeth Pearce
Programs
- A pilot project in South Australia: privately run programs for offenders
Tim Hill - The creative use of community care: a coordinated approach to stopping violence
Ross Walker and Michael Webster - The Men for Non Violence (NZ) Network of Stopping Violence and Community Sex Offender Programs: cost-effective programs for offenders
Stephen Jacobs and Ken McMaster - Private and state sector psychological services to corrections
Harry Love - Substance abuse education programs within the New Zealand prison system
Elizabeth Jamieson - Wellington Prison and Prisoners' Aid and Rehabilitation Society pre-release and resettlement program
Sheryn Elborn and Robert Nankivell - A case for private sector mediators in reparation
Peter Stallworthy
Community crime prevention
- Community safety and crime prevention: what is the role of government?
A. J. Behm - Community crime prevention: toward safer communities
Colin Hicks - Corporate involvement in community safety programs
Margaret Miller and David Brown
Juveniles and privatisation
- Privatisation and the juvenile sector
Bob Buchanan - Rotorua Legionnaires Academy program
Brett Cooper - Streets ahead - the rhetoric and reality of youth participation in neighbourhood crime control and prevention: a case study
Don Robertson