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15 Aust. & N.Z. J. Criminology 1 (1982)

handle is hein.journals/anzjc15 and id is 1 raw text is: AUST & NZ JOURNAL OF CRIMINOLOGY (March 1982) 15 (1-2) EDITORIAL Change of Editorship For the second time in less than two years the Journal has a new Editor. Dr Stephen Mugford indicated to the Executive of the Society in September 1981 that he would not he seeking appointment to a further term as Editor. At its meeting in Melbourne on 11 November last the Executive appointed me as the new Editor and Mr John Willis as Assistant Editor. Although I am still very much feeling my way, the task for the new Editor has been a smooth and pleasurable one thus far, almost overwhelmingly because of the marvellous contribution made to the Journal by Dr Mugford as Editor. He has worked tirelessly and efficiently to professionalize and streamline the process of reception, acknowledgment, review and assessment of manuscripts. The results of this are observable in the continuing improvement in the content and general appearance of the Journal. I shall continue to operate with the system which Dr Mugford has initiated and, if possible, with the benefit of time and experience make further improvements, some of them along the lines already planned by him. This edition, the Editorial apart, is all the product of Dr Mugford's efforts and those of the Book Review Editor, Mr David Biles, who continues in that position. The next issue of the Journal will also owe a considerable debt to Dr Mugford's initiative. It was one of his aims as Editor to produce issues of the Journal devoted to special themes. This has come about in the form of a Women and Crime edition which will appear in June. The special guest Editors will be Dr Dorothy Broom and Ms Katy Richmond. Dr Mugford in his one term as Editor has made a substantial and lasting contribution to the Journal and thus to Australian criminology generally. I thank him on my own behalf and also on behalf of the Executive of the Australian and New Zealand Society of Criminology. The Criminal Investigation Bill 1981 Law reform is a difficult enterprise. One of the most frustrating aspects for law reformers is something outside their immediate control and that is the issue of implementation of their reform suggestions by governments and parliaments. Mr Justice Kirby, Chairman of the Australian Law Reform Commission has often given vent to his feelings about this problem. However, with the introduction to the Federal Parliament last November of the Criminal Investigation Bill 1981, the signs are about that one of the major pieces of work of the Commission, its 1975 Report on Criminal Investigation, is at long last to bear fruit. A Bill very substantially based upon the Commission Report, and the draft Bill attached to it, was introduced into the House of Representatives by the then Attorney General, Mr R J Ellicott, in March 1977. That Bill foundered in a sea of controversy. Police organizations throughout Australia voiced very strong disapproval of the Bill. State police organizations were to the forefront of these protests despite the fact that the Bill, being a Federal initiative, was only to apply to Federal jurisdictions. There were many objections to the Bill. For the most part they consisted of criticisms that the philosophical premises and directions were wrong, that its 'provisions were too complex and unwieldy and that its implementation would involve much additional and unnecessary work on the part of police officers affected. On the strength of these and other criticisms the Ellicott Bill was allowed to lapse with the dissolution of Parliament. 1

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