This is the report of the fourth biennial seminar conducted by the Institute under the formal title 'Review of Australian Criminological Research' usually referred to simply as the 'research seminar'. The format and organisation of this seminar was similar to those conducted in 1979, 1981 and 1983, but this one was considerably larger as there were 48 speakers on the program compared with 37 on the last occasion. For this reason the program was extremely crowded and the working day was slightly longer than usual. Nevertheless, each speaker was allowed a little over 20 minutes and, as most presentations were kept down to 15 minutes, there was reasonable time for discussion within each session. The chairpersons nominated for each session were fairly strict in ensuring that no individual speaker used more than his or her ration of time. As far as possible the papers were put together in groups of three or four for each session around central themes or ideas, and this facilitated an exchange of views between researchers working in the same or similar areas.
Contents
- Foreword
- Opening address
Richard Harding
Summaries of papers
- Criminological research in the United Kingdom
Jacqueline Tombs - Governmental responses to corporate misconduct - work in progress
Peter Grabosky and John Braithwaite - The political economy of corporate regulation: a comparative analysis of offshore oil regulation in Canada and Australia
Kit Carson - Commercial extortion
Gerry McGrath - Crooked lawyers: some preliminary observations
Chuck Reasons - Juvenile Aid Bureau: an evaluation of police work with juveniles 1970-1983
Sally Leivesley - Truancy and delinquency reconsidered
Garry Coventry and Greg Cornish - Female delinquency: school, work and future
Christine Alder - Evaluation of the Aboriginal Justice of the Peace Scheme in the North-West of Western Australia
Annie Hoddinott - An assessment of community attitudes towards a half-way house for Aboriginal ex-offenders
Ken Rigby - Stirling House Bail Hostel
Carol Roe - 'Capital punishment': the privatisation of violence against women in Canberra
Suzanne Hatty and Rosemary Knight - Domestic violence and the law in South Australia
Ngaire Naffin - Domestic violence
Vicki Jacobs - Police training in domestic crisis intervention
Mara Olekalns - The analysis of criminal justice policy: a general systems application
Jim Munro - Police selection and performance evaluation
Stephen James - Shootings of police officers
Bruce Swanton - Law and order for Canada's Indigenous people
Paul Havemann - Evaluating drug enforcement strategies
Grant Wardlaw - Heroin use and crime - the problems of methodology
Ian Dobinson - Drug exhibit security - a technological response
Bob Taylor - The dilemma of women prisoners and drugs
Angela Gorta - Volunteers in prison programs: methodological issues
Arlene Morgan and Bindi Cilento - Sentenced to life: management of life sentence prisoners
Jan Aitkin and Glenda Gartrell - The development of training programs for dishonest property offenders
Joe Pasmore and Terry Dorey - Research into the effect of the five-week prison officer's strike in New South Wales in 1984
Jenny David - Research into parole changes in South Australia
Frank Morgan - Optimum prison size
Mike Bonavita - Process evaluation of the Bathurst Gaol Program
Don Porritt - Recidivism in a Western Australian prison population
Rod Broadhurst, Jenny Connaughton, Max Maller and Ross Maller - Methodological problems in the study of homicide
Alison Wallace - 'Screw threads'
John Walker - Australian criminal justice statistics
Debbie Neuhaus - Unemployment and crime
John Oliphant - The incidence of drink-driving in Western Australia
Ali Landauer - Fear of crime on public housing high rise estates
Richard Wynne and Stephen James - 'Doing education' - just another way of 'doing time'?
Mark Brennan - Review of education and training programs in a youth training centre
Bob Semmens - A study of responses by agencies to violent behaviour
John Clayer and Claire Bookless-Pratz - Sentencing discretion and the systems of appellate review
Don Weatherburn - Prosecutorial discretion
Ivan Potas - Sentencing reform: the search for information
Janet Chan - Problems of research in the justice system effects of rape reform legislation
Kenneth Polk - Fine default in South Australia
Leanne Weber - Morality, obscenity and harm: producing crimes from indecency
Augustine Brannigan - Conclusions
- Appendix A. Names and addresses of participants
- Appendix B. Evaluation of the seminar