Abstract
This seminar highlights participants' concern that alternatives to imprisonment be available on as broad a basis as possible in every Australian jurisdiction. Organisations should involve themselves in educating the general public and the media as to the availability or lack of such alternatives, and the rationale for their use as alternatives to imprisoning offenders.
Summary report of the seminar is attached.
Proceedings of a seminar held 29-31 March 1978
Contents
- Introduction
- Opening address
Mr W. Clifford - Setting the scene
Mr C.R. Bevan - The concern for alternatives
The Honourable Mr Justice Forster - Australian prison trends in the use of imprisonment
Mr D. Biles - Attendance centres and Victorian alternatives
Mr D. Room - Alternatives to imprisonment: some new dimensions in Western Australia
Mr P.G. Eichfuss - Aspects of diversion - comments on the avoidance of imprisonment
Dr J.A. Seymour - Alternatives to imprisonment for relatively serious crimes: day parole and split sentences
Mr F. Rinaldi - Closing session
- Conclusion
- List of participants
- Appendix
- Australian prison populations 1945 to 1976: a draft answer to a Parliamentary question
Prepared by David Biles and Marjorie Johnson
- Australian prison populations 1945 to 1976: a draft answer to a Parliamentary question