Editorial
| Published date | 01 December 1969 |
| Date | 01 December 1969 |
| DOI | 10.1177/000486586900200402 |
| Subject Matter | Editorial |
194 AUST. &N.Z. JOURNAL OF CRIMINOLOGY (Dec., 1969): 2, 4
EDITORIAL
The
Fifth
National
conference
of
The
Australian
Crime
Prevention,
Correction
and
After-Care
Council
DURING August,
1969,
the
5th
National Conference of
the
Australian Crime
Prevention, Correction
and
After-Care Council was
held
in
Perth,
Western
Australia,
the
venue being Kingswood College of
the
University of Western
Australia. This was
the
first conference of
the
Council
under
its
new
name;
earlier conferences
had
been those of
the
Australian Prison After-Care
Council. However, between
the
Fourth
Conference held in
Canberra
and
the
Fifth
held in
Perth
the
Council changed
its
title, if
not
to a
short
and
alliterative phrase,
at
least to a description indicative of a concern
with
all
aspects of
the
problems posed by crime.
In
his speech, when opening
the
Fifth
Conference, His Excellency
The
Governor of Western Australia
set
out
briefly
the
history of
the
Councll
in
the
following
manner:
Under
the
name, Australian Prison After-Care Council,
the
Council
originated in Adelaide in May
1960
and
its
main
objects were really
threefold: to assist
and
promote
the
rehabilitation of offenders so as to
return
them
to
the
community as law-abiding citizens
and
productive
members of
our
society; secondly, to co-ordinate
the
activities of all
organizations,
both
statutory
and
voluntary,
interested
in
this
particular
work;
and
thirdly
and
lastly, to
maintain
liaison
with
any
similar
groups
and
to foster public
interest
and
support in
the
work of those
engaged in these very
important
rehabilitative measures
and
objectives
which
are
being
undertaken.
The
early member organizations of
the
Council were
the
statutory
bodies working in
what
is now coming to be known as
the
correctional
or correction field, namely
the
prisons, parole
and
probation services
of
the
various
States
and
voluntary bodies such as
the
Prisoner's Aid
Associations, Civil Rehabilitation Councils
and
certain
church
welfare
groups.
In
the
Commonwealth delegation to
the
Third
United Nations Con-
gress, which was held in Stockholm in
1965,
we
had
three
members of
the
Council
Including
the
then
President,
the
Hon.
Mr.
Justice Mc-
Clemens, who was leader of
that
particular
delegation. These delegates,
upon conclusion of
that
conference, toured
other
countries including
America
and
Canada,
and
they
examined similar organizations
in
those
particular
countries. Upon
their
return,
council members in
each
State
were asked to
study
and
examine
the
need for expansion of
the
existing
organization
into
the
wider field of corrections so as to involve all
groups working in
the
field of crime prevention, correction
and
the
after-care
and
treatment
of offenders. As a
result
of
this
resolution,
at
the
1967 Canberra conference
the
Council's
name
was changed to
Australian Crime Prevention, Correction
and
After-Care Council.
This
has
meant
aconsiderable expansion of membership of
the
Council
to include
other
agencies
and
individuals involved in dealing
with
crime
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