Reporter

Abstract

This quarterly news magazine of the Australian Institute of Criminology (AIC) details staff movements, book reviews, crime and criminal justice statistics, new AIC publications, conference and seminar reviews.

Vol. 1 No. 1 1979 – Vol. 8 No. 4 1987

The following documents are available only in PDF format.

Volume 8 Number 4 : December 1987

  • Preventing property crime
  • More prisons?
  • Tomorrows crime trends
  • Asian and Pacific Correctional Administrators meet
  • New staff members
  • Some questions that need answers
  • Police and problems
  • Minister launches ivory scales
  • Aboriginal prisoners - the picture gets worse
  • Libraries network
  • Road safety study
  • Book review
  • Research award

Volume 8 Number 3 : September 1987

  • Youth and the law project
  • The Justice Portfolio
  • ACT Drug Indicators Project
  • Overseas visit by Deputy Director
  • Psychologists visit Institute
  • Working with the DPP
  • Retailers' seminar
  • Crime by companies
  • Book review
  • Writing on the wall
  • And, in brief
  • Dear (mythical) minister
  • 1988 Seminar Program
  • New publications
  • CRC Research Grants
  • Statistics

Volume 8 Number 2 : June 1987

  • New Institute director
  • Intellectually disabled offenders
  • Crime at school
  • Domestic violence statistics
  • With a little help
  • And in brief
  • Putting the brakes on car theft
  • Sentencing: the public's view
  • Interpretation of crime statistics
  • Video viewers' attitudes
  • Police budgets
  • Missing persons project
  • New publications
  • CRC Research grants
  • Statistics

Volume 8 Number 1 : March 1987

  • Three good years — Professor Richard Harding
  • Correct use of prison census
  • The Thai penal system and drug offenders
  • Book review
  • Capital punishment debate
  • And, in brief
  • Wide ranging research seminar
  • New publications
  • Statistics

Volume 7 Numbers 3/4 : September/December 1986

  • Lionel Keith Murphy
  • Government illegality
  • Criminology Research Grants
  • Alternative dispute resolution
  • Law and mental health congress
  • Drug law enforcement statistics
  • How the public sees crime
  • And, in brief
  • New publications
  • Homicide: the social reality
  • 1987 seminar program
  • Book reviews
  • Statistics

Volume 7 Number 2 : June 1986

  • Commemoration: Bill Clifford
  • Librarians in the criminal justice system
  • Sentencing reform
  • And, in brief
  • Jury seminar
  • Forthcoming conferences
  • Organised crime and drug enforcement
  • Book reviews
  • Seminar on sentencing
  • New publications
  • Statistics
  • Publications

Volume 7 Number 1 : March 1986

  • Child abuse conference
  • New staff
  • Wife battering: denial of a health issue
  • Youth, crime and justice
  • Prisons: a symbolic gesture?
  • Book reviews
  • Media exploitation of women
  • And, in brief
  • Criminology Research Grants
  • Statistics
  • Forthcoming seminars
  • Publications

Volume 6 Number 6 : December 1985

  • Domestic violence conference
  • The United Nations and crime prevention
  • Community-based corrections meeting
  • Institute library
  • And, in brief
  • Sentencing by just deserts
  • National survey on domestic violence
  • Farewell, Col Bevan
  • New publications
  • Seminar program
  • Book reviews
  • Criminology Research Grants
  • Statistics
  • Publications

Volume 6 Number 5 : September 1985

  • Pre-trial diversion conference
  • Criminology Research Grants
  • Burglary seminar
  • Book reviews
  • Criminal justice centres
  • Retailers and crime today
  • And, in brief
  • Justice programs for Aboriginals
  • Statistics
  • Review of Alcoholics and Drug Dependent Persons Act 1968
  • Publications

Volume 6 Number 4 : June 1985

  • Criminology research conference
  • CINCH launch
  • Book reviews
  • Aboriginal workshop
  • New publications
  • And, in brief
  • Crimes by companies
  • Crime and punishment in the colonies
  • United Nations congress
  • New staff
  • Statistics

Volume 6 Number 3 : March 1985

  • Institute insight
  • New minister
  • Criminology research conference
  • Youth crime in Australia
  • CINCH online
  • Costigan: publicity and crime
  • And, in brief
  • Book reviews
  • New publications
  • Statistics

Volume 6 Number 2 : December 1984

  • Domestic violence conference in 1985
  • And, in brief
  • Community policing conference
  • New publications
  • Book reviews
  • Prisoner developmental programs
  • Correctional statistics discussed
  • Institute's new librarian
  • Research grants
  • International criminal statistics
  • Statistics

Volume 6 Number 1 : September 1984

  • Women in the prison system
  • Crime and justice in the A.C.T
  • 54th ANZAAS Congress
  • Retail crime prevention
  • Prostitution: what controls?
  • Indigenous people's research
  • Mass media and youth violence
  • Book reviews
  • Statistics
  • Training Division news

Volume 5 Number 4 : June 1984

  • Cure worse than crime?
  • Institute conference evaluates youth crime
  • A question of values
  • Criminology at ANZAAS
  • Victims of crime
  • Librarians seminar
  • New publications
  • New Institute researcher
  • Book reviews
  • And, in brief
  • New board appointments
  • Statistics

Volume 5 Number 3 : March 1984

  • Criminology and the ANZAAS Congress
  • Aboriginal adolescent offenders
  • Corporate law reform needed
  • Myths of terrorism
  • Executives 'quizzed' on environment crime
  • Community service orders examined
  • International contact valued
  • Letter: Groote Eylandt
  • Reply by David Biles
  • New publications
  • Statistics
  • Book reviews
  • Visiting American researcher
  • And, in brief

Volume 5 Number 2 : December 1983

  • New Institute Director sets research priorities
  • Conference stresses understanding of Aboriginal culture and customs
  • Wee Waa death cell
  • Senior criminologist attends U.N. meeting of experts
  • Criminal code unjust toward Aboriginals
  • Institute trouble shooter
  • Groote Eylandt
  • New criminologist
  • New publications
  • Book reviews
  • Statistics
  • Chinese law delegation

Volume 5 Number 1 : September 1983

  • Darwin prison 'attractive'
  • Drugs and crime link examined
  • Crime Commission debate
  • Streamlined sentencing procedures
  • New publications
  • Book reviews
  • Statistics

Volume 4 Number 4 : June 1983

  • Another kind of crime summit
  • Director's digest
  • New book a valuable analysis
  • Institute researcher returns
  • Counting heads
  • National plan needed to fight arson
  • New publications
  • Circular twaddle?
  • Book reviews
  • Statistics
  • Happenings

Volume 4 Number 3 : March 1983

  • A reforming Attorney-General
  • Director's digest
  • Political terrorism in the 80s
  • Institute seminar reviews research
  • International seminar
  • New publications
  • Book reviews
  • Happenings
  • Statistics

Volume 4 Number 2 : December 1982 (PDF not available)

Volume 4 Number 1 : September 1982

  • Policing political violence
  • Director's digest
  • Whose responsibility?
  • Seminar reviews current police research
  • Europe lags in victim compensation
  • New publications
  • Book reviews
  • Statistics
  • Happenings

Volume 3 Number 4 : June 1982

  • New Chairman of Board of Management
  • Director's digest
  • The growth of private security
  • Costs and benefits of prisons
  • Criminal justice system outmoded
  • AIC / State collaboration
  • Methodology of evaluation
  • Japanese business self-regulation
  • Marriage - a safe haven from homicide
  • Mentally ill offenders in custody
  • New publications
  • Book reviews
  • Minorities and crime
  • Statistics
  • Happenings

Volume 3 Number 3 : March 1982

  • How 'getting tough' can mean less punishment
  • Director's digest
  • Psychologists in court and corrections
  • Human rights and social defence
  • Bill provokes divided response
  • New publications
  • Book reviews
  • Statistics
  • Happenings

Volume 3 Number 2 : December 1981

  • Beware - the boardroom criminal
  • Director's digest
  • National victimology symposium
  • Aboriginals - victims of the system?
  • New publications
  • Attorney-General launches new books
  • Conference probes democratic policing
  • Prison does not prevent crime
  • Happenings
  • Book reviews
  • Letter to the editor
  • Statistics
  • U.N. course

Volume 3 Number 1 : September 1981

  • Commonwealth Government supports continuance of the Institute
  • Director's digest
  • Regional correctional conference
  • Fulbright recipient returns
  • Rethink on drink-drivers
  • Better deal for the insane
  • What price - freedom?
  • Deterrence of criminals, civil conflict and gun control
  • New publications
  • Statistics
  • Happenings
  • Book reviews

Volume 2 Number 4 : June 1981

  • Prisoner exchange to be discussed in Bangkok
  • Director's digest
  • The criminology of assassination
  • High car theft rate
  • Link in computer systems
  • Book display
  • It rubs off!
  • Firearms - rights and risks
  • New publications
  • Statistics
  • N.Z. penal review
  • Happenings
  • Book reviews

Volume 2 Number 3 : March 1981

  • Law violation and big business
  • Different cultures, different sentencing
  • New publications
  • Director's digest
  • Happenings
  • Criminologist - a 'woman in question'
  • In the interests of child welfare
  • Probation: a sentence in its own right?
  • Institute's initiative on Aboriginals
  • Mad, bad, or both
  • Caracas and crime
  • Librarians in the criminal justice system
  • Review of criminological research seminar
  • Statistics
  • Book reviews

  • New publications
  • Director's digest
  • Former N.Y. police chief visit
  • Crimes of violence
  • Alcohol and crime
  • Crime survey results
  • Caracas and crime
  • Who cares about the victims?
  • Retired?
  • Statistics
  • Book reviews

Volume 2 Number 1 : September 1980

  • New publications
  • Director's digest
  • Police must 'learn to live with media'
  • Guatemala: a criminologist's view
  • Safer to live in Tokyo?
  • Researcher addresses Nader meeting
  • Book explores crime and inequality
  • Statistics
  • Book reviews

Volume 1 Number 4 : June 1980

  • New publications
  • Director's digest
  • Researcher questions alcohol-rape link
  • Reoffending to regain care, workshop told
  • Sinhalese jailor tells of prisoner promotion
  • Prosecutors discuss diversion proposal
  • Seminar part of unique research cycle
  • Crime trends study completed
  • Statistics
  • Book reviews

Volume 1 Number 3 : March 1980

  • New publications
  • Director's digest
  • Study finds rise in imprisonment rate
  • Children's rights and justice for juveniles
  • Quamby: the reality of the law
  • Prison officers' course
  • Violence by and against children
  • Hong Kong corrections meeting a 'first'
  • More police training needed in 'domestics'
  • Statistics
  • Book reviews

Volume 1 Number 2 : December 1979

  • New publications
  • Director's digest
  • Unemployed: an 'underclass'
  • Community policing is 'best' defence
  • 'Children of parents in conflict'
  • Crime in a new community
  • Scottish prison experiment 'successful'
  • Size of the crime problem
  • Sentencing reforms proposed
  • Media and fear of crime
  • Book reviews
  • Statistics

Volume 1 Number 1 : September 1979

  • New publications
  • Director's digest
  • Parole on trial at seminar
  • 'Double standards' in crime law
  • Institute Chairman retires
  • New Chairman appointed
  • Centralised prison proposed
  • Call for State crime committees
  • Call for crime factor in planning
  • Survey is information 'gold mine'
  • Australian criminologist's overseas post
  • Statistics
  • Book reviews