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AUST. & N.Z. JOURNAL OF CRIMINOLOGY (Sept., 1971): 4, 3 CURRENT COMMENT A Report on The Victoria Police Force Following An Inspection by Colonel Sir Eric St. Johnston, C.B.E., QPM, HM Chief Inspector of Consta bulary for England and Wales 1967-70. (Government Printer, Melbourne, 1970-1971, pp.217, £2.80.) COLONEL Sir Eric St. Johnston, Her Majesty's Chief Inspector of Gon stabulary in England and Wales,. has carried out an inspection. Immedi ately one thinks of the government inspectors of nineteenth century England - Horner of factories, Arnold of schools, Hill of prisons (see Roberts' Victorian Origins oj the British W.eljare State; New Haven, 1960, for a full description of their work). Many of those excellent men were the scourge of unscrupulous factory owners, sadistic schoolmasters and corrupt prison officials. As Roberts shows, although these inspectors were not able to be active social reformers, that on many occasions, their re ports and exposes were directly responsible for legislative change. Of course, not all the inspectors were firebrands. There seems to have been a distinct difference of opinion on the role of an inspector. Horner believed that if the House of Commons would not bring about reform, then he would achieve it by
Australian & New Zealand Journal of Criminology – SAGE
Published: Sep 1, 1971
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