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9 Aust. & N.Z. J. Criminology 3 (1976)

handle is hein.journals/anzjc9 and id is 1 raw text is: AUST & NZ JOURNAL OF CRIMINOLOGY (March 1976) 9 (3-4) THE NEW PRESIDENT'S FOREWORD The Australian and New Zealand Society of Criminology aims to promote criminology and in that way to enrich civilization. The Society was inaugurated by a meeting of 47 people at Melbourne University on 24 October 1967. For some years before that a number of us had expressed the need for a regional society to provide sustaining fellowship to the few who then dared to call themselves criminologists, and for a learned journal to help prove the principles of criminology. From the outset the principal medium of the Society has been this Journal, produced under the editorship of Dr Allen Bartholomew. In addition, in 1970 the Society established the John Barry Memorial Fund, which Melbourne University agreed to administer for us. The fund finances an annual Barry Lecture, the lecturers so far being Professor Geoffrey Sawer in 1972, Professor Norval Morris in 1973, Justice Roma Mitchell in 1974, Police Commissioner Raymond Whitrod in 1975, and this year Professor Samuel Hammond. Thirdly, the Society affiliated with the Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science in 1972, and succeeded in having a Criminology Section introduced into ANZAAS congresses as from 1975. Our opening theme in that first congress concerned the new transnational dimension of crime, and I may be permitted a few comments on that theme relating to Australia and New Zealand. The two countries now have a combined population approaching 17 million. This 0.4%, and a declining proportion, of the world's population, and is less than the average population for a nation today. With eight governments (and no less than fourteen houses of parliament), it might fairly be said that we are comparatively over-governed and that there is perforce a tendency for governments here to think small. Compared with the central government in other federations, the Australian government is not active in the field of criminal law enforcement and has done little to co-ordinate State law enforcement activities. We are, for instance, still burdened with the requirement for the formal extradition of suspected offenders even between the States of Australia. It was gratifying therefore to see all the Australian Attorneys-General agree on 17 October 1975 upon the desirability of permitting prisoners, probationers and parolees to be transferred from one State to another for more effective re-settlement. Australia and New Zealand are still a small isolated community, and our social defence, which must ultimately be seen as including military defence, will be enhanced further by our governments' manifest commitment to the implementation of a policy of defence through the rule of world law. For that is the new frontier of law enforcement today. Not with rhetoric, but, like Sweden, by taking practical steps to strengthen the institutions of world law: * submitting unreservedly to the compulsory jurisdiction of the International Court of Justice; * fully ratifying the Covenant on Civil and Political Rights 1966 (which means making the declaration under Article 41 and ratifying the Protocol); * making the declaration under Article 14 of the Racism Convention 1965; 3

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