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Proceedings of a seminar held 19-22 April 1988

Contents

Introduction and keynote paper

• Introduction
• Networking with PCs: the WHIGNET experience
  
  Laura Maquignaz

Corrections

• Cataloguing on Inmagic: the NSW Corrective Services experience
  
  Helen Reidy
• Report from the Correctional librarians' special interest group
  
  Ellen Quinn
• Australian prison libraries: minimum standard guidelines
  
  Phil Roberts

Criminology

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

Foreword | In recent years, the Australian Government has committed significant resources to combating trafficking in persons. Within this larger anti-trafficking effort, the community sector, law enforcement, prosecutors, health professionals and members of the community all have an important role to play. As each sector comes to terms with the reality of trafficking in Australia, it is important that emerging challenges and possible solutions are identified.

Contents

• Introduction: Review of Australian criminological research, 1987
  Paul Wilson
• Welcome address
  David Biles

Summaries of papers

• Exploring violence at sporting events: research in Bathurst
  Arthur Veno and Elizabeth Veno
• Victorian occupational health and safety legislation: an examination of law in transition
  Kit Carson
• Crime perception and victimisation of inner city residents
  John Minnery
• Public perception of sentencing in Perth, Western Australia
  David Indermaur

Contents

• Foreword
• Criminological research in perspective
  W. Clifford
• The current status of Australian criminological research
  David Biles

Summaries of papers

• Expanded opportunities for criminological research: crime victims
  Ray Whitrod
• Paradigms of court research
  Roman Tomasic
• Aboriginal young offenders in an isolated community
  Maggie Brady and Rodney Morice
• Legal representation in magistrates courts
  Peter Cashman
• Avoiding delay in magistrates courts
  Edward Sikk

Foreword | As the internet and other forms of information and communications technology advances, opportunities for child sexual offenders and other financially-motivated cybercriminals to sexually exploit children will increase. Official statistics here and overseas indicate the number of investigations and prosecutions remain small but are increasing rapidly. This paper discusses non-legislative measures to address the issue of online child exploitation, particularly child grooming.

The Australian Institute of Criminology (AIC) has released the latest statistical report from the National Deaths in Custody Program (NDICP).

Scrap metal theft is a lucrative and attractive venture for thieves and a significant issue for the construction industry (Jones 2008). It appears to be facilitated by a largely unregulated scrap metal recycling industry, the relative ease of theft due to the openness and accessibility of construction sites, and encouraged by escalating metal prices. The price of copper, for example, has doubled since 2005.

Foreword | Armed robbery is a diverse, heterogeneous crime shaped by the presence or absence of a wide array of characteristics. Therefore, effectively preventing armed robbery requires a good understanding of the nature of the offence. Previous attempts to understand armed robbery have focused on the offender, primarily by interviewing incarcerated offenders to gain insight into their motivations and planning. However, this approach overlooks the unique vulnerabilities associated with the victim and/or the location of the offence.

Has violence in the workplace increased? Some sectors of the community believe that it has. Certainly the headlines on this page illustrate the justifiable anxieties of some of our public contact workers. Many public transport workers have been verbally or physically abused by the travelling public. For example, earlier this year a Canberra bus driver suffered a heart attack and died following an altercation with a man who refused to pay a bus fare. Banking staff have to cope with irate, aggressive customers as well as the prospect of facing a professional, violent criminal.