The Police and the Public in Australia and New Zealand and the Democratic Policeman
About: This article is published in Australian Quarterly.The article was published on 1970-01-01. It has received 1 citations till now.
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01 Jan 1980
TL;DR: The authors argue that the impact of convictism on colonial crime and mores was greatly exaggerated and that crime was not simply grafted on to the colony, but reflected various concerns and interests, the conditions of a relatively affluent frontier community, and perhaps most importantly, an intense concern with respectability.
Abstract: As a receptacle for British convicts, New South Wales was popularly portrayed as a 'vicious' society. Crime and vice were considered the inevitable concomitants of a transported 'criminal class' and convict 'contamination'. The following study, focussing on the mid-nineteenth century, argues that the impact of convictism on colonial crime and mores was greatly exaggerated. Official criminal statistics, reportage in the press, as well as other contemporary evidence, all present in some ways a distorted view of crime. Crime was not simply grafted on to the colony, but reflected various concerns and interests, the conditions of a relatively affluent frontier community, and perhaps most importantly, an intense concern with respectability. The community's transformation from a penal colony was marked not only by a decreasing proportion of convicts in the population, but a reorientation in standards of public conduct, new fears concerning public order, and an obsessional interest in repudiating the convict stain.
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TL;DR: The authors assesses the journalistic deployment of PMU information and develops a broader sociopolitical argument explaining the growth of PMUs more generally, using the example of the New South Wales Police Media Unit in Australia (hereafter NSW PMU).
Abstract: Over the past two decades police media units have played an everincreasing role in managing the dissemination of information between the police and media organisations. Using the example of the New South Wales Police Media Unit in Australia (hereafter NSW PMU) this article assesses the journalistic deployment of PMU information and develops a broader sociopolitical argument explaining the growth of PMUs more generally. We analyse qualitative research data, in the form of interviews with journalists and NSW PMU staff (n = 29), and quantitative data from an analysis of two Sydney-based daily newspapers. We suggest that the growth of PMUs can be explained with reference to new programs of governing crime that developed throughout the last quarter of the 20th century as well as significant changes to the global media landscape.
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TL;DR: In this article, the formation of the discipline in Australia was shaped by the historical contexts of colonial settle-means and the historical context of colonial settlement in Australia, and there was no distinctive Australian criminology before the discipline.
Abstract: Is there a distinctive Australian criminology? Was there a criminology before the discipline? Was the formation of the discipline in Australia shaped by the historical contexts of colonial settleme...
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TL;DR: In this paper, police unions in Australia: a history of the present are discussed and a discussion of the role of unions in criminal justice in Australia is presented. But this paper is limited to three categories:
Abstract: (2000). Police Unions in Australia: a History of the Present. Current Issues in Criminal Justice: Vol. 12, No. 1, pp. 5-19.
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01 Jan 2015
TL;DR: In this paper, a statement of originality and a table of Table of Table 1 is presented, together with a Table of Tables of Table 2 and Table 3 of the abstracts.
Abstract: ................................................................................................................................................... i Statement of Originality ......................................................................................................................... iii Table of
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