AIC Conference Proceedings

No. 11: Keeping people out of prisons : proceedings of a conference held 27-29 March 1990

Sandra McKillop (ed.)
ISBN 0 642 17073 8; ISSN 1034-5086
Canberra : Australian Institute of Criminology, 1991

Abstract

These conference proceedings detail the many innovative and successful community based programs designed as alternatives to imprisonment. The papers cover such topics as including community service orders, home detention, fine options, juvenile offender diversionary programs, youth training centres, probation, parole, bail, and Aboriginal diversionary programs

Contents

• Opening address : Politics and prisons
  Peter Patmore
• Declining Northern Territory prison population - how this was brought about by effective community-based programs
  Doug Owston
• Maximising diversion within the corrections continuum
  Denbigh Richards
• Evaluating imprisonment and parole : survival rates or failure rates?
  Rod Broadhurst
• Keeping people out of prison - which jurisdictions do it best?
  John Walker
• Non-custodial sanctions, prison costs and prison overcrowding
  Don Weatherburn
• Increased utilisation of community-based corrections in Queensland
  Ross Evans
• The offender's point of view
  Ken Cook
• Changes in community corrections - implications for staff and programs
  Deborah King
• Keeping alternatives as alternatives
  Garth Luke
• The changing role of probation in South Australia
  Johathan Tulett
• Juvenile offender divisionary programs in the Northern Territory
  Kenneth Newman
• Community-based programs for young people
  Shane Murphy and Sandra Lawrie
• Youth training centres in Victoria
  Vaughan Duggan
• Prisons, parents and problems
  Carmel Benjamin
• Drink-driving course as an alternative to prison
  David Allen
• Attendance centres
  Rosemary Caruana and David Allanson
• Independent perspectives on NSW community corrections
  Nigel Stoneman
• Bail assessment program
  Martin Bailey
• Sentencing - another option - the Community Aid Panel
  Paul Dixon
• Christian Justice Association Aboriginal driver training program
  Christabel Bridge
• Some implications of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody for community-based corrections
  Ross Lay
• A profile of Aboriginal an Islander prisoners in North Queensland
  Robyn Keast
• Keeping Aborigines out of prison : an overview
  Lyall Munro
• Mentally disabled prisoners - planning resources
  Susan Hayes
• The halfway house - a program for currently serving prisoners
  Clive Begg
• Fine options - some problems
  Allan Fletcher
• Aftercare in the nineties
  Ray Kidney
• Employment - the key to keeping people out of prison
  Peter Henson