Conferences

History of crime, policing and punishment

Australian National University, Canberra
9-10 December 1999

This conference was organised by the Australian Institute of Criminology in conjunction with Charles Sturt University.

Contents

• Introduction
• Conference papers

Introduction

These conference proceedings relate to historical and developing issues in the areas of crime, policing and punishment. The papers discuss corrections, police and the community, Indigenous issues, the colonial era, drug law enforcement, and comparative international perspectives.

The proceedings of this conference were published as:

Policing the lucky country / Mike Enders and Benoît Dupont (eds)
Hawkins Press, 2001
ISBN 1876067144

Unedited papers, where available, are provided below.

Conference papers

• Sex, crime and the new punitiveness
  Associate Professor John Pratt, Institute of Criminology, Victoria University, New Zealand
• Women prisoners in Queensland in the interwar years
  Kerry Wimhurst, Griffith University, Queensland
• From marble to mud : the punishment of life imprisonment
  John Anderson, University of Newcastle, New South Wales
• Beyond 'what works?' a 25 years jubilee retrospective of Robert Martinson
  Associate Professor Rick Sarre, University of South Australia

Police and the community

• Responses to pressure : a history of policy approaches to the management of trauma in the police service
  Dr Margaret Mitchell, Australian Graduate School of Police Management, New South Wales
• Twenty years of community consultative committees : is it possible to solve the conundrum?
  John Casey and Delaine Trofymowych, Australian Graduate School of Police Management, New South Wales
• Keeping the peace or keeping people down? policing in Victoria
  Dr Jude McCulloch, Brimbank Community Legal Centre, Victoria
• Barricades and batons : an historical perspective of the policing of major industrial disorder in Australia
  David Baker, Monash University, Victoria
• Policing - reflecting on the past : projecting into the future
  Commander Barbara Etter, Director, Australasian Centre for Policing Research, South Australia
• Indigenous participation in policing - native police to now - has anything changed?
  Jo Kamira, former Manager, ATSI Unit, Australian Federal Police
• Police summary prosecutions : the past, present and future
  Dr Chris Corns, La Trobe University, Victoria

Indigenous issues

• Policing and Indigenous peoples in Australia
  Dr Christine Jennett, Charles Sturt University, New South Wales
• The native police at Callandoon - a blueprint for forced assimilation?
  Mark Copland, Griffith University, Queensland
• Moreton Telegraph Station : 1902 the native police on Cape York Peninsula
  Jonathan Richards, Griffith University, Queensland

The Colonial Era

• With greatest expectation : the colony, crime and corrections in South Australia
  Dr Jon Telfer, Department for Correctional Services, South Australia
• After Arthur : policing in Van Diemen's Land 1837-1846
  Dr Stefan Petrow, University of Tasmania

 

• Crime in a convict republic
  Professor John Braithwaite, Australian National University, Australian Capital Territory
• Police Unions in Australia : a history of the present
  Professor Mark Finnane, Griffith University, Queensland
• Reforming prisons : a 1970s experience
  Professor Tony Vinson, University of New South Wales

Drugs police

• The history of methadone treatment in Australia : the influence of social control arguments in its development
  Dr Morag McArthur, Australian Catholic University
• A disorderly frontier : an analysis of drunkeness, disorder and drug offences in the Northern Territory 1870 to 1926
  Bill Wilson, Northern Territory University

Operations

• Policing in the information age : technological errors of the past in perspective
  Benoît Dupont, Charles Sturt University, New South Wales
• Committees and commissions of inquiry into criminal justice agencies : a history repeating itself
  Desmond McDonnell, Australian Graduate School of Police Management, New South Wales
• The evolution of impaired driver law - Victoria
  Martin Boorman, Victoria Police

Theoretical perspectives

• The 'information society' and the quest for civilisation : the social construction of crime
  Mike Enders, Charles Sturt University, New South Wales
• Democratic control of police: how 19th century poitical systems determine modern police structures
  Charles Edwards, Edith Cowan University, Western Australia
• Inventing juvenile delinquency and determining its cure
  Leonora Ritter, Charles Sturt University, New South Wales
• New threats or old stereotypes? The revival of 'trafficking' as a discourse
  Fiona David, Australian Institute of Criminology

Comparative international perspectives

• The incorporation of customary law and principles into sentencing decisions in the South Pacific region
  Tess Newton, University of the South Pacific, Vanuatu