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AUST & NZ JOURNAL OF CRIMINOLOGY (December 1990) 23 (209-216) REGULATING MORALITY-ROLES OF THE QUEENSLAND CRIMINAL JUSTICE COMMISSION* Sir Max Bingham QC t Introduction To Sir Winston Churchill has been attributed a statement to the effect that one may judge the .qualityof society by the way in which it treats its convicted offenders. I have no doubt that the late Sir John Barry would have supported this proposition and, as previous commentators have pointed out, a great proportion of his work was devoted to ensuring that the criminal justice system treated those who came within its grasp with the maximum humanity that was consistent with the achievement of its other objectives. Mr. Justice Barry was eminent in the field of Australian criminology when my interest in that area developed and I am confident that his analytical and humane understanding of the criminal justice system would have approved on this occasion the proposed examination of the ideas underlying the Queensland Criminal Justice Commission. It is an honour to be invited to deliver the John Barry Memorial Lecture and I greatly appreciate the compliment involved. The CJC is an exciting initiative, and a major investment by Queenslanders in a time of
Australian & New Zealand Journal of Criminology – SAGE
Published: Dec 1, 1990
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