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Abstracts 256 BOOK REVIEWS, ABSTRACTS and NOTES AlJST. N.z.J.r. (1974) 7 the process. The explanatory material about the through the 19th and 20th centuries. While this pec~liar language lawyers and judges use is es­ may be true in so far as it relates to the changes p.eclally helpful to the program of demystifica­ from custodial to treatment oriented programs tlon. within the prison itself, to assume that the ex­ There are two particular groups of readers perimental programs developed as alterna ti ves who will profit most from this book. The first are to short-term incarceration (i.e. suspended sen­ those people in other disciplines who want a tences, probation, periodic detention and wider basic introduction to law. For instance, this re­ use of fines>. are reforms with a similar raison viewer has been involved in planning and teach­ d'etre is both theoreticallv and politicallv naive. ing a one-term course on Social Work and Law for social work students at the University of Svd­ The demand to maximise reform capacity of the ney. This text was prescribed on the basic "Iav/' crinlinal justice system and, at the same time. to source for the course. It provided the ideal control the cost, have faced administrators with common base for the class and an excellent the problem of resolving potentiallY contrary ne­ starting point for class discussions. The book cessities demanded by changing ·criminogenic. would seem to be obviously suited to similar ideological and economic pressures. New Zea­ interdisciplinary studies in' non-law fields in­ land's approach to sentencing and corrections is cluding criminology and corrections. based on what the Department of Justice terms The second group of readers who might profit " ... a positive approach of responsible ex­ from the book is intending lawyers. Every Y(lar perimentation". From a logistical point of view, law school deans are beseiged with requests for the importance of the increased range of dis­ reading lists from students who have been admit­ positions available to the courts in New Zealand ted to law school. This book is a "must" item on is -that techniques such as probation and parole that list. But it may well be that the die has been provide means of maintaining formallv defined cast by them: the book could well be pointed out deviant populations in a manner far le's5 labour and recommended to high school students intensive and capital intensive than is possible before they make that important decision. with incarceration. The figures relating to the And even if they have no desire to be lawyers. it use of incarcerative, semi-incarcerative and would be a profitable venture in civil education. non-incarcerative sanctions in New Zealand an> It is a small book: 112 pages including thp analysed and an overall picture emerges in index and two pages of suggestions for additional which economic considerations are seen to have reading. It is paper-backed. At $2.00 a copy, it is more or less dictated the adoption of sentencing well within the reach of those people for whom it policies which are also consistent with reform is intended. oriented goals of correction. The massive in­ One might quibble with small points: t~e omis­ crease in the number of convicted offenders over sion of a section on lpgal training is recognised the last two decades has required that less ex­ by the authors in their introduction; the sugges­ pensive means of dealing with such persons be tIOns for further reading could be annotated. But developed, but also there have been changes in these are really matt~rs of personal preference penal administration which have conflicted with which do not detract from the overall impact and the economic directives underlying penal policy. excellence of the book. For criminologists it is well to point out that the book is nct confined to cri minal law - it covers all facets of the law and The most important example of this is the reduc.­ thus serves as a useful" rounding out" source for tion in inmate-staff ratios in penal institutions, those to whom "law" means criminal law and and client-staff ratios in probation. The argu­ nothing else. ment is nevertheless stressed that the casual processess underlying the developmen t of non­ W.T. WESTLI;\lG. incarcerative penalties are predominantly eco­ nomic and that the accompanying ideology of University of Sydney reform merely constitutes a rationalisation of the new developments. Notes O'Malley, Pat. Webb, Stephen D. "Economics, Ideology and Criminal Policy: Sentencing and Penal Reforms in N~w Zealand, 1954-1970" The ANNUAL CONFERENCE of the AUSTRA­ (1973) International Journal of Criminology and LIAN PSYCHOLOGICAL SOCIETY will be held Penology 363-374. at LA TROBE UNIVERSITY, MELBOURNE from the 17th - 22nd AUGU'ST 1975. Further TH E USU AL explana tion for the development of details of program and registration will penal and sentencing reforms is in terms of the appear in the Journal "AUSTRALIAN PSY­ spread of rationalism, liberalism and knowledge cHoLoGIsT" in March 1975, http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Australian & New Zealand Journal of Criminology SAGE

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256 BOOK REVIEWS, ABSTRACTS and NOTES AlJST. N.z.J.r. (1974) 7 the process. The explanatory material about the through the 19th and 20th centuries. While this pec~liar language lawyers and judges use is es­ may be true in so far as it relates to the changes p.eclally helpful to the program of demystifica­ from custodial to treatment oriented programs tlon. within the prison itself, to assume that the ex­ There are two particular groups of readers perimental programs developed as alterna ti ves who will profit most from this book. The first are to short-term incarceration (i.e. suspended sen­ those people in other disciplines who want a tences, probation, periodic detention and wider basic introduction to law. For instance, this re­ use of fines>. are reforms with a similar raison viewer has been involved in planning and teach­ d'etre is both theoreticallv and politicallv naive. ing a one-term course on Social Work and Law for social work students at the University of Svd­ The demand to maximise reform capacity of the ney. This text was prescribed on the basic "Iav/' crinlinal justice system and, at the same time. to source for the course. It provided the ideal control the cost, have faced administrators with common base for the class and an excellent the problem of resolving potentiallY contrary ne­ starting point for class discussions. The book cessities demanded by changing ·criminogenic. would seem to be obviously suited to similar ideological and economic pressures. New Zea­ interdisciplinary studies in' non-law fields in­ land's approach to sentencing and corrections is cluding criminology and corrections. based on what the Department of Justice terms The second group of readers who might profit " ... a positive approach of responsible ex­ from the book is intending lawyers. Every Y(lar perimentation". From a logistical point of view, law school deans are beseiged with requests for the importance of the increased range of dis­ reading lists from students who have been admit­ positions available to the courts in New Zealand ted to law school. This book is a "must" item on is -that techniques such as probation and parole that list. But it may well be that the die has been provide means of maintaining formallv defined cast by them: the book could well be pointed out deviant populations in a manner far le's5 labour and recommended to high school students intensive and capital intensive than is possible before they make that important decision. with incarceration. The figures relating to the And even if they have no desire to be lawyers. it use of incarcerative, semi-incarcerative and would be a profitable venture in civil education. non-incarcerative sanctions in New Zealand an> It is a small book: 112 pages including thp analysed and an overall picture emerges in index and two pages of suggestions for additional which economic considerations are seen to have reading. It is paper-backed. At $2.00 a copy, it is more or less dictated the adoption of sentencing well within the reach of those people for whom it policies which are also consistent with reform is intended. oriented goals of correction. The massive in­ One might quibble with small points: t~e omis­ crease in the number of convicted offenders over sion of a section on lpgal training is recognised the last two decades has required that less ex­ by the authors in their introduction; the sugges­ pensive means of dealing with such persons be tIOns for further reading could be annotated. But developed, but also there have been changes in these are really matt~rs of personal preference penal administration which have conflicted with which do not detract from the overall impact and the economic directives underlying penal policy. excellence of the book. For criminologists it is well to point out that the book is nct confined to cri minal law - it covers all facets of the law and The most important example of this is the reduc.­ thus serves as a useful" rounding out" source for tion in inmate-staff ratios in penal institutions, those to whom "law" means criminal law and and client-staff ratios in probation. The argu­ nothing else. ment is nevertheless stressed that the casual processess underlying the developmen t of non­ W.T. WESTLI;\lG. incarcerative penalties are predominantly eco­ nomic and that the accompanying ideology of University of Sydney reform merely constitutes a rationalisation of the new developments. Notes O'Malley, Pat. Webb, Stephen D. "Economics, Ideology and Criminal Policy: Sentencing and Penal Reforms in N~w Zealand, 1954-1970" The ANNUAL CONFERENCE of the AUSTRA­ (1973) International Journal of Criminology and LIAN PSYCHOLOGICAL SOCIETY will be held Penology 363-374. at LA TROBE UNIVERSITY, MELBOURNE from the 17th - 22nd AUGU'ST 1975. Further TH E USU AL explana tion for the development of details of program and registration will penal and sentencing reforms is in terms of the appear in the Journal "AUSTRALIAN PSY­ spread of rationalism, liberalism and knowledge cHoLoGIsT" in March 1975,

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Australian & New Zealand Journal of CriminologySAGE

Published: Dec 1, 1974

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