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Community Attitudes towards Penal Policy

Community Attitudes towards Penal Policy AUST & NZ JOURNAL OF CRIMINOLOGY (March 1984) 17 (33-40) lain A McCormick,* Frank H Walkey** and A J W Taylor" On 4 February 1981 the New Zealand Minister of Justice approved the establishment of the Penal Policy Review Committee' (PPRC) because of the recognition of a growing disquiet over the amount of crime occurring in the community and the apparent ineffectiveness of the present remedies. The report of the PPRC represents a major attempt to examine and reformulate policies related to the care and control of those people who are convicted in the criminal courts. The extent to which the report will influence such policies has yet to be determined but the Minister of Justice clearly indicated that it was necessary for widespread public debate to take place so that the final legislation will have broad public support. Although the report was released on 2 February 1982 the public debate appears to have been confined to an article in the New Zealand Listener (Ray, 1982) a series of smaller articles in the New Zealand Law Journal (Barrington, 1982; Hicks, 1982; Stace, 1982; Young, 1982) and a number of newspaper articles (eg, Hodder, 1982). The articles to date have http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Australian & New Zealand Journal of Criminology SAGE

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Publisher
SAGE
Copyright
© The Australian and New Zealand Society of Criminology and Authors, 1984
ISSN
0004-8658
eISSN
1837-9273
DOI
10.1177/000486588401700106
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Abstract

AUST & NZ JOURNAL OF CRIMINOLOGY (March 1984) 17 (33-40) lain A McCormick,* Frank H Walkey** and A J W Taylor" On 4 February 1981 the New Zealand Minister of Justice approved the establishment of the Penal Policy Review Committee' (PPRC) because of the recognition of a growing disquiet over the amount of crime occurring in the community and the apparent ineffectiveness of the present remedies. The report of the PPRC represents a major attempt to examine and reformulate policies related to the care and control of those people who are convicted in the criminal courts. The extent to which the report will influence such policies has yet to be determined but the Minister of Justice clearly indicated that it was necessary for widespread public debate to take place so that the final legislation will have broad public support. Although the report was released on 2 February 1982 the public debate appears to have been confined to an article in the New Zealand Listener (Ray, 1982) a series of smaller articles in the New Zealand Law Journal (Barrington, 1982; Hicks, 1982; Stace, 1982; Young, 1982) and a number of newspaper articles (eg, Hodder, 1982). The articles to date have

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Australian & New Zealand Journal of CriminologySAGE

Published: Mar 1, 1984

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