The seminar which generated the papers contained in this volume was the second of its type conducted by the Institute. The first, held in February 1979, was largely attended by recipients of grants from the Criminology Research Council, the Institute's own research staff and a small number of researchers employed by other organisations. The same groups were represented at the 1981 seminar but research workers from police and corrections departments were also included. This expansion meant that over 40 papers were presented during the four day period and therefore only brief outlines of current or recently completed research could be permitted. The bulk of this volume comprises summaries of papers that were prepared by the researchers who participated. More details of the research projects outlined here may be obtained by contacting individual researchers directly.
Contents
- Foreword
- Criminological research in perspective
W. Clifford - The current status of Australian criminological research
David Biles
Summaries of papers
- Expanded opportunities for criminological research: crime victims
Ray Whitrod - Paradigms of court research
Roman Tomasic - Aboriginal young offenders in an isolated community
Maggie Brady and Rodney Morice - Legal representation in magistrates courts
Peter Cashman - Avoiding delay in magistrates courts
Edward Sikk - Sentencing drinking drivers in New South Wales
Ross Homel - Police/Community Involvement Program - pilot project
David Smith - Response management information systems for the Australian Federal Police
Lionel Claydon - Statistics from South Australian criminal courts
Judith Worrall - A survey of Western Australian drug offenders
Chris Foley-Jones - Crimes against retailers: a victimisation survey
Dennis Challinger - Sentencing of federal offenders
Satyanshu Mukherjee - Crime prevention and the design and management of public developments
Donald Perlgut - Crime perception and residential mobility in an inner city suburb
John Minnery and Geoff Veal - Demography, planning and crime
John Walker - Sentencing: the views of Australian judicial officers
Duncan Chappell - Institutional press: a case study of secondary socialisation in an Australian police academy
Gerry McGrath - Police unionism in Australia
Bruce Swanton - Implications of memory research for judicial procedures
Don Thomson - Women homicide offenders
Wendy Bacon - Entomological timing of death
Beryl Morris - Evidence from glass
Bernard Lynch - The identification of small glass fragments for forensic purposes
Keith Terry and Arie Van Riessen - The identification of petroleum residues in arsons
Peter Thatcher and Frederick Bull - Community service orders in Western Australia
Carol Roe - Prediction of performance in a work release program
Don Porritt, J. Turnbull and G. Cooney - The first three months of freedom
Tony Roux - Sentencing mentally disordered offenders
Ivan Potas - The value of prison censuses
Charlie Rook - Just deserts just cannot be just
John Braithwaite - Crime and the use of imprisonment
David Biles - Suffering in silence? A preliminary review of eight cases of battered husbands
Jocelynne Scutt - Review of welfare services for prisoners and prisoners' families in Queensland
Marlene Siskind - Artistic expression of emotional disturbance in personality disorders
Eric Cunningham Dax - The severity of juvenile offences as judged by juveniles
Ali Landauer and Derek Pocock - Intrinsic resistance cognitive strategy training of educable mentally retarded (EMR) children in hypothetical temptation to steal situations
Allan Haines - Robbery in South Australia
Peter Grabosky - Sanctions against corporations
Brent Fisse - A quantitative model of criminal justice: Australia 1964-1976
Glenn Withers - Evaluation of law reform in New South Wales
Sandra Egger and Jeff Sutton - Conclusions
- Appendix A. Names and addresses of participants
- Appendix B. Evaluation of the seminar