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1 Aust. & N.Z. J. Criminology 3 (1968)

handle is hein.journals/anzjc1 and id is 1 raw text is: THE PRESIDENT'S FOREWORD T HE publication of this, the first number of the Journal of the Aus- tralian and New Zealand Society of Criminology, is an event of considerable significance. It creates a common market for Australia and New Zealand for the formulation and presentation of ideas and hypo- theses, and, where it is available, verified knowledge, upon criminological topics. One test (though it is by no means infallible) of the truth of a proposition is its ability to gain acceptance in the market place frequented by persons knowledgeable in the particular field to which the proposition belongs, and it is hoped that the Society and its Journal will provide such a market place. The Constitution states the Society's aims as being: (a) to promote study, understanding and co-operation in the field of criminology; (b) to bring together persons actively engaged, or who have been actively engaged, in teaching and/or practice in the field of criminology; (c) to foster training and research in criminology in institutions of learning, and in law enforcement and correctional agencies; (d) to encourage communication within the field of criminology through publication and conferences; (e) to promote and foster understanding of criminology by parlia- ments, governments and the public. As objectives, these are at once modest and ambitious, and the achieve- ment of them would do a great deal to advance the welfare and happiness of the people of the two nations named in the Society's title, and, indeed, of the peoples of the world. The Baroness Wootton of Abinger, better-known to sociologists and criminologists as Barbara Wootton, has stated our problems in language that is delightfully lucid and compact. In her invaluable work, Social Science and Social Pathology (1959, p. 13), she wrote: In the field of social pathology there can be no dispute as to the questions to which the social scientist is asked to address himself. We wish that people did not behave in ways that are socially trouble- some, and we would like to know why they do, and what can best be done to stop them. These are commonsense questions which it is plainly worth trying to answer ... In the cathartic pages that follow, she demonstrates how defective are most criminological theories, and how small is the amount of genuinely 3

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