Abstract
This conference reviews the criminal justice system and discusses issues relating to strategic planning, resource allocation, coordination across agencies, policing, crime prevention, the community, juvenile crime and the courts. Several jurisdictions, including representatives from New Zealand and the United States, give accounts of their experiences.
Proceedings of a conference held 19-21 April 1993, Canberra
Contents
- Contributors
- Preface
David Biles - Comprehensive criminal justice planning: successes, failures and lessons from the American experience
John K. Hudzik
Strategic issues and criminal justice
- Strategic planning for the criminal justice system
Laurie Glanfield - Strategic issues in criminal justice system management
Don Weatherburn - The criminal justice system in New Zealand
Heather Colby - Establishing a Ministry of Justice in Western Australia
Denzil McCotter
Resource allocation
- Commonwealth grants to states and territories - the impact of criminal justice services
Robert J. Searle - Police resource allocation
Catherine Bright and John Walker
Coordination in criminal justice
- The need for strategy in developing teamwork between agencies of the criminal justice system, health and welfare agencies, and the community
Keith Hamburger - Countering organised crime through strategic planning and effective coordination
William J. Horman - Perspectives on the changing role of the judiciary in coordinating criminal justice
Warwick Soden
Policing
- Crime prevention and car theft in New South Wales: a case study
Jeff Jarratt - The relationship between police and other government agencies: recent changes in perspective in Queensland
Dianne Jeans - Strategic planning and performance evaluation for operational policing
Jim Hann and Bruce Mortimer
Crime prevention
- Developing a national crime prevention and community safety policy
Grant Wardlaw and Gillian O'Malley
Community; juvenile crime; courts
- The proper role of criminal law in road safety
John Willis - Evaluating family group conferences
David Moore - Legal aid and its role in the reduction of delays in criminal proceedings in Victoria
Anne-Louise Boag