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Methamphetamine is of national concern (ACC 2014), but what does this statement mean to frontline police officers? In real terms it means that frontline police are required, on an increasingly frequent basis, to engage with methamphetamine users. This presents a number of challenges to police. First, methamphetamine intoxication and withdrawal can impede an individual’s ability to follow police directions. Second, use is associated with behavioural and psychological disturbances, including aggression, which can increase the risk of harm for the police and members of the community.

Methamphetamine is of national concern (ACC 2014), but what does this statement mean to frontline police officers? In real terms it means that frontline police are required, on an increasingly frequent basis, to engage with methamphetamine users. This presents a number of challenges to police. First, methamphetamine intoxication and withdrawal can impede an individual’s ability to follow police directions. Second, use is associated with behavioural and psychological disturbances, including aggression, which can increase the risk of harm for the police and members of the community.

Methamphetamine is of national concern (ACC 2014), but what does this statement mean to frontline police officers? In real terms it means that frontline police are required, on an increasingly frequent basis, to engage with methamphetamine users. This presents a number of challenges to police. First, methamphetamine intoxication and withdrawal can impede an individual’s ability to follow police directions. Second, use is associated with behavioural and psychological disturbances, including aggression, which can increase the risk of harm for the police and members of the community.

Proceedings of a conference held 24-26 July 1990

Contents

• Unlived lives: trends in youth suicide
  
  Riaz Hassan
• Youth suicide in New South Wales: urban-rural trends 1964-88
  
  Michael Dudley, Brent Waters, Norm Kelk and John Howard
• Trends in youth suicide in Tasmania: a comparison between youth and other suicide
  
  Janet Haines, Elaine Hart, Chris Williams, John Davidson and Walter Slaghuis
• The prediction of suicide
  
  Robert Goldney

Proceedings of a conference held 6-8 May 1991

Contents

• The sex industry in the Australian Capital Territory: a law reformer's perspective
  
  Bernard Collaery

Clarification of issues

• Feminist approaches to the sex industry
  
  Barbara Sullivan
• Why should we oppose the 'sexploitation' industry?
  
  Reverend Fred Nile
• Legal perspectives in clarifying the issues of the sex industry
  
  Carolyn Pickles

Overseas sex industry perspectives

Proceedings of a conference held 4-6 June 1991

Contents

• Crime prevention: the universal challenge
  
  Gilbert Bonnemaison

Crime prevention in Transition

• An Australian perspective
  
  Chris Sumner
• Developments in crime prevention in New Zealand: an overview
  
  David Oughton
• Prevention or displacement?
  
  Dennis Challinger
• 'Opportunity and desire': making prevention relevant to the criminal and social environment
  
  Kayleen M. Hazlehurst

Proceedings of a conference held 24-26 September 1991

Contents

• Opening Address
  Margaret Reynolds

Part 1: Women and the laws in Australia

• Introduction to part 1: Women and the laws in Australia
  Dr Patricia Easteal

The laws

• The incredible woman: a recurring character in criminal law
  Dr Jocelynne Scutt
• Invisible lives: women, dependence and the law
  Dr Suzanne Hatty
• Battered women who kill: a plea of self-defence
  Dr Patricia Easteal
• Rape prosecutions in Victoria

Proceedings of a conference held 12-14 May 1992

Contents

• Welcome address
  
  Professor Duncan Chappell
• Characteristics of homicide in Australia 1990-91
  
  Heather Strang
• Preventing homicide through trial and error
  
  Lawrence W. Sherman
• A scenario of masculine violence: confrontational homicide
  
  Kenneth Polk
• Hot spots for violence: the environment of pubs and clubs
  
  Professor Ross Homel and Dr Steve Tomsen
• Homicide: the Northern Territory perspective
  
  

Proceedings of a conference held 12-14 November 1991

Contents

• Opening address
  
  Michael Tate
• Law enforcement and technology
  
  Robert Hamdorf
• Managing the acquisition of technology
  
  Bruce Window
• Law Enforcement Access Network
  
  Peter Roberts
• Traffic cameras: the Victorian experience
  
  Michael G. Bourne and Ronald C. Cooke
• Traffic policing: red light/speed cameras
  
  Wayne Jones and Bruce Leggatt
• Mobile satellite communications
  
  Greg Ellis

Proceedings of a conference held 29-31 October 1991

Contents

• Personality disorder, the criminal justice system and the mental health system
  
  David Neal
• Coping with the highly dangerous: issues of principle raised by preventive detention
  
  Professor C. R. Williams
• Provisions for violent offenders: perpetuating myths or confronting challenges
  
  Margaret Ray MLA and Leanne Craze
• 'Dangerous persons': to be gaoled for what they are, or what they may do, not for what they have done
  
  Ron Merkel QC

Proceedings of a conference held 27-29 October 1992

Contents

• Foreword
  Patricia Weiser Easteal
• Introductory address
  Sally Brown

Part 1: Overview

• Introduction to part 1: Overview
• Without consent: the aims, the insights, the aftermath
  David Goldie
• Rape and 'real rape'
  Joanne Spangaro
• Beliefs about rape: a national survey
  Dr Patricia Weiser Easteal
• Patterns of rape: a preliminary Queensland perspective
  Amanda Moran
• Only a witness

Proceedings of a conference held 23-25 June 1992

Contents

• List of contributors
• Preface
• Opening address
  
  Rob Hulls
• Law reform and the road to independence
  
  Michael Mansell

Community crime prevention

• A community development approach to crime prevention in Aboriginal communities
  
  Barbara Miller
• Crime prevention strategy for Aboriginal communities
  
  Rebecca Tonkin
• Mediation within Aboriginal communities: issues and challenges
  
  

Proceedings of a conference held 22-24 September 1992

Contents

• Contributors
• Preface
  
  Lynn Atkinson

Juvenile justice: issues and overviews

• Opening address
  
  Michael Tate
• Preventing juvenile crime
  
  The Honourable Christopher Sumner
• Juvenile justice: the need to ask the right questions
  
  John Seymour
• Juvenile offending: new theory and practice
  
  John Braithwaite
• The courts, the judiciary and new directions: the limits of legislative change
  
  

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