Abstract
This is the report of the third biennial research seminar conducted by the Institute and its aim, as in the previous research seminars held in 1979 and 1981, was to provide an opportunity for people actually engaged in criminological research to share their experiences in a mutually supportive environment in such a way that their confidence and competence as researchers may be enhanced by their participation. The seminar was held over the period 22 to 25 February 1983, during which time nearly 40 papers were presented in a very crowded program. The bulk of this report comprises summaries of those papers.
Contents
- Foreword
- Problems of research into Aborigines and the criminal justice system
W. Clifford - Pitfalls of evaluation in criminal justice
Daniel Glaser
Summaries of papers
- Evaluating law reform in New South Wales
Jeff Sutton - Putting research to work
Charlie Rook - Counting prisoners
John Walker - Problem street drinking and the law
Ron Okely - Some problems of longitudinal research on deviant behaviour
Kenneth Polk - Safeguarding the rights of mentally retarded offenders
Susan Hayes - Sexual assault in South Australia
Adam Sutton - Homicide in New South Wales 1968-1981
Alison Wallace and Margaret Buckland - Finding out about fines
Dennis Challinger - Community service orders in New South Wales: an evaluation
Angela Gorta - Evaluation of the rehabilitative potential of community service orders
Prue Oxley - Community service orders: issues in evaluation
Sally Leivesley - Community service orders in Western Australia - an evaluation
Paul Birchall, R.A. Lincoln and G.E. Flatt - Schools, truancy and delinquency
Garry Coventry - Crime statistics and their interpretation in Western Australia 1829-1902
Andrew Gill - The role of ideology in public order policing
Grant Wardlaw - The origins and development of the Victoria Police Force
Bob Haldane - Crime screening - the Property Offence Solvability Seriousness Assignment Model (P.O.S.S.A.M.)
Bob Bayley - Development of case screening models by the South Australia Police Department
Kelly Weekley - C.I.B. work analysis
Peter Macievic - Work face discretion: the case of police and domestic crisis
Gerry McGrath - Sex differences in the distribution of traffic law enforcement
Richard Kirkham and Ali Landauer - The identification of small glass fragments for forensic purposes
Bernie Lynch, K.W. Terry and A. van Riessen - Types of police employee grievances
Bruce Swanton - Police shortages in Australia
Glenn Withers - Probation: an examination of sentencing disparity in Tasmania
Philip Donnelly and J.G. Mackay - Sentencing the federal drug offender
Ivan Potas - The training of probationary prison officers and inmates - officer relationships
Don Porritt - Personality characteristics of property offenders
Joe Pasmore - Remand in Victoria: size and type of facilities needed
David Biles - A scientist's view of relationships between criminology and forensic science
Malcolm Hall - Delinquency, a failure in language coping?
Patricia Brown - Severe life consequences for alienated youth
Robyn Lincoln - Diet and delinquency
Carol Roe - Aborigines and rape - a preliminary study in Western Australia
Susan Lewis - A decade of radical criminological theory - some reflections
Roman Tomasic - Victorian prison officers - some opinions and attitudes
John van Groningen - Conclusions
- Appendix A. Names and addresses of participants
- Appendix B. Evaluation of the seminar