NCJ Number
195091
Editor(s)
Mike Enders,
Benoit Dupont
Date Published
2001
Length
256 pages
Annotation
This book focuses on fundamental issues of policing in Australia at the start of the 21st century; it links Australian history and culture to contemporary policing practice and so enables trainee police to make more sophisticated and flexible responses in varying situations.
Abstract
This book contains a range of papers presented at a 1999 Australian conference that addressed the histories of crime, policing, and punishment. The chapters in this book present the papers on policing. Five chapters are grouped under the "origins of policing." They set Australian policing in historical context and discuss the social construction of crime and policing. Other chapters in this section discuss the democratic control of police stemming from 19th-century political systems and policing in the information age. Four chapters pertain to "Policing and Indigenous Peoples." They address how the policing of Indigenous peoples has been conducted in Australia, Indigenous participation in policing, and case studies of native policing. Four chapters address "Policing and Deviance." One chapter considers how juvenile delinquency has been framed and defined in Australia, along with proposals for responding to it as defined. Other chapters in this section discuss the history of methadone treatment in Australia; drunkenness, disorder, and drug offenses in the Northern Territory during 1870-1926; and the evolution of impaired driver law in Victoria. Three chapters focus on "policing, politics, and industrial disputes." Chapters address a historical perspective of the policing of major industrial disorder in Australia and a review of committees and commissions of inquiry into criminal justice agencies. Subject index