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

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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;


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