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Abstracts AUST. & N.Z. JOURNAL O·F CRIMINOLOGY (March, 1972): 5, 1 of prisons is to provide safe custody and The Ethics of Behaviour Modification (1971) Lovibond, S. H., Aust. Psychologist discipline while the governme.nt moves § 172. expeditiously towards the g~nulne reC?D­ ciliation of offender and SOCIety, working AS if in direct answer to the question on such predictive factors as the prisoner's posed by Yatest, above Lovibond here family cohesion, vocational record and urges a number of 'restraints upon the en­ prospects, nature of residence, avocational thusiastic behaviour therapist. He argues interests and emotional balance. Fear of forcefully that aversive stimulation should the law like the fear of God, should be a only be used with the patient's full con­ healthy'respect for principle or reality, not sent and co-operation and that the patient a terror of sadism or caprice. should be fully informed 'as to the in­ tended treatment and the probability of it being successful. Provided these conditions Birth Order and Delinquency (1971) Biles, are met, the author does not object to D., Aust, Psychologist § 189. behaviour therapy being offered as an alternative to a statutory penalty. He AFTER reviewing the literature in this argues, however, that the manipulation of field the author cites the results obtained behaviour without the consent of the in­ from a study of 3692 children who ap­ dividual is justified only in the case. of peared before the Children's Court during individuals lacking normal social respon­ the year 1966. The average family size of sibility, and only if the manipulation is these children was shown to be very much designed to move the individual in the larger than the norm for the Australian direction of rational self-control. Guide­ community, with 20 per cent of the court lines are also suggested for the conduct cases coming from families of seven or of controlled experiments and in relation more children. It was further shown that to the development of new and uncon­ within large families the middle children ventional techniques. This paper, in short, seem to be at greater risk than either the presents a firm basis upon which a com­ first-borns or last-borns. This tendency prehensive set of ethical principles for the was statistically significant for families of practise of behaviour therapy may be de­ from four to nine children. The implica­ veloped. tions of these findings for population con­ trol and for child-rearing and education were then considered. Imprisonment and Deterrenee-A Pre­ Sentence Report (1971). Johnston, Stanley W. Australian Law Journal, 45, 305-312. IS THERE a need to order a prison sen­ tence as a general deterrent in a case where imprisonment is apparently not warranted for the specific deterrence or correction of the offenders before the court? Johnston says, no, general deter­ rence is a by-product of the whole system of justice, and not an aim of any particular NOTES sentence. It is enhanced by public confl­ dence in the corrective efficiency and in­ ternal consistency of sentencing adminis­ tration. To vary the terms of imprison­ ment except to improve its corrective efficacy is to abandon the effort at re­ sponsible communication with the offender First John Barry Memorial Lecture. On and to sap the tenuous integrity of pres­ TUes9aY, June 13, 1972, the birthday of the ent sentencing administration, The wide­ late Sir John Barry, the first John Barry spread, and even official, disappointment Memorial Lecture will be given in the with prisons administration must under­ Lyle Theatre, Redmond Barry Building, mine the morale of both prison staff and University of Melbourne. The lecturer WIll inmates. Officials ought to respect their be ProfessorG. Sawer, of the Australian own administration and take responsi­ National University, Canberra, and a bility for setting and achieving definite, eulogy will be delivered before the lecture positive objectives. The general purpose by Sir Eugene Gorman. A Festschrift in honor of the late Sir John Barry, will be launched at the meeting by Professor M. Perlman of the United States. The lecture 1. Yates, A. J. Behaviour Therapy. New York:, Wiley, 1970. will be free and open 'to the public. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Australian & New Zealand Journal of Criminology SAGE

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Australian & New Zealand Journal of Criminology , Volume 5 (1): 2 – Mar 1, 1972
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AUST. & N.Z. JOURNAL O·F CRIMINOLOGY (March, 1972): 5, 1 of prisons is to provide safe custody and The Ethics of Behaviour Modification (1971) Lovibond, S. H., Aust. Psychologist discipline while the governme.nt moves § 172. expeditiously towards the g~nulne reC?D­ ciliation of offender and SOCIety, working AS if in direct answer to the question on such predictive factors as the prisoner's posed by Yatest, above Lovibond here family cohesion, vocational record and urges a number of 'restraints upon the en­ prospects, nature of residence, avocational thusiastic behaviour therapist. He argues interests and emotional balance. Fear of forcefully that aversive stimulation should the law like the fear of God, should be a only be used with the patient's full con­ healthy'respect for principle or reality, not sent and co-operation and that the patient a terror of sadism or caprice. should be fully informed 'as to the in­ tended treatment and the probability of it being successful. Provided these conditions Birth Order and Delinquency (1971) Biles, are met, the author does not object to D., Aust, Psychologist § 189. behaviour therapy being offered as an alternative to a statutory penalty. He AFTER reviewing the literature in this argues, however, that the manipulation of field the author cites the results obtained behaviour without the consent of the in­ from a study of 3692 children who ap­ dividual is justified only in the case. of peared before the Children's Court during individuals lacking normal social respon­ the year 1966. The average family size of sibility, and only if the manipulation is these children was shown to be very much designed to move the individual in the larger than the norm for the Australian direction of rational self-control. Guide­ community, with 20 per cent of the court lines are also suggested for the conduct cases coming from families of seven or of controlled experiments and in relation more children. It was further shown that to the development of new and uncon­ within large families the middle children ventional techniques. This paper, in short, seem to be at greater risk than either the presents a firm basis upon which a com­ first-borns or last-borns. This tendency prehensive set of ethical principles for the was statistically significant for families of practise of behaviour therapy may be de­ from four to nine children. The implica­ veloped. tions of these findings for population con­ trol and for child-rearing and education were then considered. Imprisonment and Deterrenee-A Pre­ Sentence Report (1971). Johnston, Stanley W. Australian Law Journal, 45, 305-312. IS THERE a need to order a prison sen­ tence as a general deterrent in a case where imprisonment is apparently not warranted for the specific deterrence or correction of the offenders before the court? Johnston says, no, general deter­ rence is a by-product of the whole system of justice, and not an aim of any particular NOTES sentence. It is enhanced by public confl­ dence in the corrective efficiency and in­ ternal consistency of sentencing adminis­ tration. To vary the terms of imprison­ ment except to improve its corrective efficacy is to abandon the effort at re­ sponsible communication with the offender First John Barry Memorial Lecture. On and to sap the tenuous integrity of pres­ TUes9aY, June 13, 1972, the birthday of the ent sentencing administration, The wide­ late Sir John Barry, the first John Barry spread, and even official, disappointment Memorial Lecture will be given in the with prisons administration must under­ Lyle Theatre, Redmond Barry Building, mine the morale of both prison staff and University of Melbourne. The lecturer WIll inmates. Officials ought to respect their be ProfessorG. Sawer, of the Australian own administration and take responsi­ National University, Canberra, and a bility for setting and achieving definite, eulogy will be delivered before the lecture positive objectives. The general purpose by Sir Eugene Gorman. A Festschrift in honor of the late Sir John Barry, will be launched at the meeting by Professor M. Perlman of the United States. The lecture 1. Yates, A. J. Behaviour Therapy. New York:, Wiley, 1970. will be free and open 'to the public.

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