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| DOI | 10.1177/000486587200500216 |
| Date | 01 June 1972 |
| Published date | 01 June 1972 |
132 AUST. &N.Z. JOURNAL OF CRIMINOLOGY (June, 1972): 5, 2
Abstracts
Social
Deviance
in Aboriginal
Boys
(1971)
Lickiss, J.N., Med.J.Aust. ii 460.
DELINQUE,NCY is emerging as a serious
problem in part-Aboriginal populations,
especially in
an
urban
situation.
Most
illegal
activity
is
not
brought
to
court.
The
few
children
who
are
recognised by
law
as
delinquent
form
the
visible
part
of
an iceberg.
Some
of
these
children
are
com-
mitted
to
training
institutions.
Probably
both
chance
and
social class influence
the
management
of a delinquent child.
Twenty-seven
Aboriginal
boys
in a
corrective
institution
were
interviewed,
Traumatic
childhood experiences
with
parental
(especially
paternal)
deprivation
were
common; experience of color
or
racial
discrimination varied;
most
of
the
boys
had
commenced drinking, 12
had
some
features
of a
heavy
drinking
pattern
and
the
in-
fluence of
paternal
drinking
pattern
was
clear.
The
situation
of
the
Aboriginal
boys
was
viewed
in
the
light of
current
thought
concerning
the
relationship of
racial
issues
and
delinquency. An
attempt
has
been
NOTES
Australian
Crime
Prevention,
Correction
and
After-Care
Council will hold its
7th
biennial conference in Melbourne
between
11th
and
18th August, 1973.
The
overall
theme
will be Crime in
Our
Society
and
under
this
title
a
number
of different topics
will be discussed.
These
topics
will
in-
clude
The
Size
of
the
Problem
of Crime;
The
Correctional
Services;
The
Role of
made
to
synthesise
the
observed factors in
asimple model. On
the
basis of
these
con-
siderations
the
principles of a
preventive
and
control
?rogramme
emerge.
The XYY Offender: A
Modem
Myth
(1971)
Fox, R. G., J.Crim.law Criminol. Pol. Sci.
62 59.
THIS
article
fully
reviews
the
evidence
regarding
the
correlation
between
the
XYY
chromosome
constitution
and
anti-social
behaviour. It is a timely contribution, as it
explodes
much
of
the
mythology
surround-
ing
the
extra
Ychromosome
and
offers
some
reasons
why
the
abnormality
has
caused
such
interest
in
both
the
profes-
sional
and
lay
populations. The
reasons
involve
the
demonstration
to
the
majority
of society
that
they
are
really different
from
the
rapist,
the
murderer,
etc.,
because
they
(non-offender society)
are
chromo-
somally normal. This
point
of view,
Fox
suggests, is
more
comforting
than
the
recognition
that
there
is
little
difference
between
the
offender
and
the
rest
of
society in
terms
of "criminal
potential".
It
is
suggested
that
the
possession of
the
extra
Ychromosome
per
se is of no
relevance in
regard
to
the
notion
of legal
irresponsibility,
whether
defined cognitive-
ly or behaviourally,
and
such
achromosome
abnormality
should
not
in
any
way
in-
fluence
the
imposition of
any
sentence, or
play
any
part
in considering a
prisoner's
elegibility
for
parole.
the
Voluntary
Agencies;
Law
Enforcement
and Criminal Procedure,
and
a
number
of
special
interest
groups
which
will be or-
ganized
in
terms
of
the
interest
shown
by
those
indicating
their
likely
attendance.
If
any
reader
wishes
to
present
a
paper
to
the
conference
they
shoud
send
three
(3)
copies of
the
paper, or an informative
ahstract,
to Mr. G. Cuddihy,
Director
of
Probation
and
Parole, The
Convenor
of
the
7th
Conference, 1
Macarthur
Street,
Melbourne, Victoria, 3000.
Mr.
Stanley
W.
Johnston,
who
is a Life
Member
of
the
International
Society of
Criminology,
has
been
elected
as Aus-
tralian
Delegate,
and
a p
poi
n
ted
an
Arbitrator,
of
that
Society.
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