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Note on the Demographic Composition of Australian Police Forces and Prison Services

Note on the Demographic Composition of Australian Police Forces and Prison Services ANZJ Crim (1979) 12 NOTE ON THE DEMOGRAPHIC COMPOSITION OF AUSTRALIAN POLICE FORCES AND PRISON SERVICES John Braithwaite" and Michael Cass] This research note presents the results of a cross-tabulation analysis of 1971 Census data on the composition of Australian police forces and prison services by sex, age, country of birth, educational qualifications and religion. One frequently hears confident assertions being made that a certain Department of Corrective Services is run by "poms"; that certain police forces have been more progressive than others in employing large numbers of university graduates or females; that one force is controlled by the Masons, another by Catholics; and the like. With the publication of the following tables, it is to be hoped that in future such assertions might be made by reference to some data. Police Forces Table 1 shows that at the time of the 1971 Census all police forces were at least 97 percent male. South Australia was the State with the highest percentage of female police officers (2.9~). All police forces have very similar age distributions, with the exceptions that the South Australian and ACT forces have notably higher proportions of young officers (Table 2). From Table 3 it is 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, 1979
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0004-8658
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1837-9273
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10.1177/000486587901200302
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ANZJ Crim (1979) 12 NOTE ON THE DEMOGRAPHIC COMPOSITION OF AUSTRALIAN POLICE FORCES AND PRISON SERVICES John Braithwaite" and Michael Cass] This research note presents the results of a cross-tabulation analysis of 1971 Census data on the composition of Australian police forces and prison services by sex, age, country of birth, educational qualifications and religion. One frequently hears confident assertions being made that a certain Department of Corrective Services is run by "poms"; that certain police forces have been more progressive than others in employing large numbers of university graduates or females; that one force is controlled by the Masons, another by Catholics; and the like. With the publication of the following tables, it is to be hoped that in future such assertions might be made by reference to some data. Police Forces Table 1 shows that at the time of the 1971 Census all police forces were at least 97 percent male. South Australia was the State with the highest percentage of female police officers (2.9~). All police forces have very similar age distributions, with the exceptions that the South Australian and ACT forces have notably higher proportions of young officers (Table 2). From Table 3 it is

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Australian & New Zealand Journal of Criminology – SAGE

Published: Sep 1, 1979

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