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Book Review: Regulation and Repression: The Study of Social Control

Book Review: Regulation and Repression: The Study of Social Control BOOK REVIEWS (1989) 22 ANZJ Crim alternatives to taking children before the courts. Secondly, there is careful attention given to the law and practice on the choice of sentence; a matter of no small moment given that comparatively few cases involve a serious contesting of guilt, and that recent legislative reforms have extended to the juvenile courts a range of intermediate (or "community-correctional") options. The book, however, has ambitions well beyond that of a technical analysis of the current law. It locates the law in its historical context (one of the considerable strengths of this work) and it draws out (and critically assesses) the. criminological assumptions on which particular arrangements rest. This is especially in evidence in the discussion of the foundations of the system of juvenile justice (welfare and treatment needs set against the due process and proportionality requirements of a "justice" model), and in the evaluation of the rather patchy success of diversion schemes (such as "panels") and community corrections. The thesis of the book is that there was a uniquely Australian foundation to the welfare slant of the early Children's Court framework: one which echoed many of the·sentiments of the "child saving" movements in North America http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Australian & New Zealand Journal of Criminology SAGE

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SAGE
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© The Australian and New Zealand Society of Criminology and Authors, 1989
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0004-8658
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1837-9273
DOI
10.1177/000486588902200408
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BOOK REVIEWS (1989) 22 ANZJ Crim alternatives to taking children before the courts. Secondly, there is careful attention given to the law and practice on the choice of sentence; a matter of no small moment given that comparatively few cases involve a serious contesting of guilt, and that recent legislative reforms have extended to the juvenile courts a range of intermediate (or "community-correctional") options. The book, however, has ambitions well beyond that of a technical analysis of the current law. It locates the law in its historical context (one of the considerable strengths of this work) and it draws out (and critically assesses) the. criminological assumptions on which particular arrangements rest. This is especially in evidence in the discussion of the foundations of the system of juvenile justice (welfare and treatment needs set against the due process and proportionality requirements of a "justice" model), and in the evaluation of the rather patchy success of diversion schemes (such as "panels") and community corrections. The thesis of the book is that there was a uniquely Australian foundation to the welfare slant of the early Children's Court framework: one which echoed many of the·sentiments of the "child saving" movements in North America

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Australian & New Zealand Journal of Criminology – SAGE

Published: Dec 1, 1989

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