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.
Proceedings of a conference held 27-29 March 1990
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
Jonathan Tulett - Juvenile offender diversionary 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 & problems
Carmel Benjamin - Drink driving courses 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 and Islander prisoners in North Queensland
Robyn Keast - Keeping Aborigines out of prison: an overview
Lyall Munro and Garry Jauncey - Mentally disabled prisoners - planning resources
Susan Hayes - The Halfway House - a program for currently serving prisoners
Clive Begg - Fine options - some problems
Alan Fletcher - Aftercare in the nineties
Ray Kidney - Employment - the key to keeping people out of prison
Peter Henson