The New President's Foreword
| Author | K. O. Shatwell |
| DOI | 10.1177/000486587200500201 |
| Published date | 01 June 1972 |
| Date | 01 June 1972 |
AUST. &N.Z. JOURNAL OF' CRIMINO·LOGY (June, 1972): 5, 2
The
New
President's
Foreword
65
BY
the
terms
of
its
constitution
our
Society
has
assumed
functions
which
involve
the
fostering of
scholarship
and
research
at
the
highest
intellectual
level,
both
creative
and
critical,
in
areas
of
human
behaviour
of
great
social
importance
which, as dtsctplines,
are
often
studied
separately
but
are
related
to
each
other
in
varying degrees.
Concurrently
with
this
it
has
set
itself some
peril-fraught
objectives going to
community
education
on
the
widest basis
and
the
shaping
of
governmental
policy
in
a
number
of
fields of
state
activity
which
are
administratively
and
functionally
separate.
Whether
for good or for ill, therefore,
the
activities of
such
an
organsation
must
be of considerable
importance.
The
present
opportunity
of
writing
this
foreword is personally
important
to me
in
providing avehicle which enables me, firstly, to
congratulate
the
Society on
the
success
it
has
achieved
within
the
short
space of
its
existence,
and
secondly, to
pay
tributes
of respect
and
affection to my distinguished
predecessors
in
office,
the
late
Sir
John
Barry
and
Sir
George
Paton.
Sir
George is still
an
active
member
of
the
Society,
and
present
demands
of
space
permit
only a
graterul
acknowledgement of
his
great
services
in
ensuring
the
continuance
of
its
work
after
the
death
of
the
former
president.
To
John
Barry,
friends
and
admirers
from
all
parts
of
the
world
have
paid
unstinted
tribute,
and
in
the
discharge of my
personal
debt
of affection
and
respect
I
can
only
repeat
what
others
have
said
better.
To
those
who
had
the
privilege of
his
friendship
he is one of
the
rare
few whose
memory
is
retained
with
undiminished
brightness
in
the
richer
parts
of
personal
experience. To criminologists
he
will long be
remembered
as
the
father
of
crtmtnology
in
Australia,
both
at
the
academic level
and
from
its
even
more
important
aspects of
practical
application. He is recognised
as
the
true
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