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Proceedings of a seminar held 7-9 November 1984

Contents

• Introduction
• The discretion to prosecute
  
  The Honourable Senator Gareth Evans Q.C.
• Prosecution - in the public interest?
  
  Dr Jacqueline Tombs
• Measuring prosecutorial discretion
  
  Ivan Potas
• Prosecution discretions - Director of Public Prosecutions Act 1983
  
  Ian Temby Q.C.
• Prosecutorial discretion and administrative law
  
  Peter Bayne
• Prosecutorial discretion in Victoria
  
  Richard Read

Proceedings of a seminar held 29 April to 2 May 1985

Contents

• Preamble
• Opening address
  
  Professor Richard Harding
• Workshop introduction
  
  Kayleen M. Hazlehurst

I. The community

• Health and crime in black Australia
  
  Shane Houston
• Self determination: implications for criminal justice policy makers
  
  Roberta B. Sykes
• Aboriginal legal service: a problem of representation
  
  Craig Somerville
• The relevance of imprisonment
  
  Patricia Lowe

Proceedings of a seminar held 24-27 June 1985

Contents

• Editors' preface
• Welcoming address
  
  David Biles
• Opening address
  
  Neville J. Harper
• Nature and extent of burglary in Australia
  
  Satyanshu K. Mukherjee
• Break and enter offenders in South Australia
  
  Ian Crettenden
• Break and enter offences in South Australia: a police perspective
  
  F.A. Richardson and A. French
• Breaking and entering: the plague of modern society
  
  K.G. Barlow

Proceedings of a seminar held 16-19 August 1983

Contents

• Foreword
  
  R.A. Bush

Overview of the response to the alcohol and drug crime link

• Opening address
  
  Brian Stewart
• Drug control policy and the drugs-crime connection
  
  Dr Grant Wardlaw
• The drug-crime link: dilemmas for policy makers
  
  Professor Ronald Sackville
• The production of drug problems: creating and controlling
  
  Dr Margaret Sargent

Society's response to use

Proceedings of a seminar held 20-22 August 1985

Contents

• Introduction
• Opening address
  
  Mr Terry Syddall, S.M.
• Pre-trial diversion for adult offenders - the Australian Institute of Criminology's efforts
  
  Mr Colin Bevan
• An international review of pre-trial diversion for adult offenders
  
  Mr Ron Snashall
• Legal aspects of pre-trial diversion schemes
  
  Dr Des O'Connor
• Diversion and the Director of Public Prosecutions
  
  Mr Bob Greenwood
• Informal justice
  
  

Proceedings of a seminar held 20-22 May 1986

Contents

• Overview
• Welcoming address
  
  Professor Richard W. Harding
• Trial by jury: the scope of Section 80 of the Constitution
  
  Mr Justice L.K. Murphy
• A commentary on Mr Justice Murphy's paper
  
  Professor Tony Blackshield
• Paying lipservice to juries
  
  Mr John Willis
• Justice without juries
  
  Ms Mariette Read
• The political significance of the jury
  
  Mr David Neal
• Public attitudes about the jury
  
  

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Proceedings of a seminar held 18-21 March 1986

Contents

• Sentencing in Australia: an overview of proceedings
  
  Ivan Potas
• Welcoming address
  
  Richard Harding
• Opening address
  
  The Hon. Jim Kennan M.L.C.
• Criminal justice, rights and sentencing: a review of sentencing policy and problems
  
  Andrew Ashworth
• Commentary upon Dr Ashworth's paper
  
  Justice Alastair Nicholson
• Discretion in sentencing
  
  Kay A. Knapp
• The role of the prosecutor in the sentencing process

Proceedings of a seminar held 3-7 February 1986

Contents

• Welcome and official opening
  Professor Richard Harding
• Introduction
  Ms Jan Carter
• History of child abuse in Australia
  Professor Peter Boss
• Who owns child sexual abuse?
  Mrs Sharyn Butt
• Definitions of emotional abuse
  Ms Jan Carter
• Child sexual assault prevention programs: implications of their introduction to Australia
  Ms Moira Carmody and Ms Affrica Taylor
• The evaluation of child abuse services
  Dr Sally Leivesley

Proceedings of a seminar held 22-24 July 1986

Contents

• Overview
• Welcoming remarks
  
  Professor Richard Harding
• Opening address
  
  Sir Laurence Street
• Alternative dispute resolution - what is it?
  
  Ms Jenny David

Unmet needs for dispute resolution

• Unmet needs for dispute resolution in South Australia
  
  Ms Judith Worrall
• Criminal justice centres - achieving their goal
  
  Ms Maureen Carter

Australian developments

• Community mediation

Proceedings of the fifth seminar, 15-18 April 1986

Contents

• Introduction and welcome

The microcomputer, ABN and criminal justice databases

• Appropriate computer technology for the small library
  
  Glenn Sanders
• Computer assistance in the Special Prosecutors Office
  
  Diana Higgins
• Workshop on ABN - what's in it for me?
  • ABN update: summary
    
    Cheryl Pye
  • ABN for a small library: the experience of the Alcohol and Drug Foundation, Australia
    
    

Proceedings of a seminar held 1-2 October 1986

Contents

• Introduction
  
  David Biles
• The role of an ombudsman in curbing government illegality
  
  Professor Jack Richardson
• Role of Auditors General
  
  Peter L. Lidbetter
• Government illegality and public service boards
  
  Emeritus Professor D.C. Corbett
• Royal commissions
  
  Terry Higgins
• Parliamentary committees
  
  Senator Janine Haines

Proceedings of a seminar held 24-25 March 1987

Contents

• Overview
• Welcoming remarks
  
  Mr David Biles
• Opening address
  
  The Hon. J.H. Kennan
• Filling the gap - the need for support services in court systems
  
  Ms Carmel Benjamin
• Trauma and stress in the context of the court
  
  Mrs Margaret Hobbs
• Victim support
  
  Mr Howard Brattan
• South Australian court information centres: a successful community corrections project using departmental volunteers
  
  Ms Cora Tamm

Proceedings of a seminar held 22-24 April 1987

Contents

• Overview
  
  Dennis Challinger
• Welcome
  
  David Biles
• People with intellectual disability and the criminal justice system
  
  Ben Bodna

Police and the intellectually disabled

• Police officers, police surgeons and the intellectually disabled
  
  Peter Bush
• Working arrangements with the police and the Intellectual Handicap Services Branch of the Queensland Department of Health
  
  Dianne Beckey