The Next Generation
| Date | 01 April 1999 |
| DOI | 10.1177/000486589903200101 |
| Published date | 01 April 1999 |
| Author | Peter Grabosky |
| Subject Matter | President's Message |
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RES
IDE
NT'S
MESSAGE
The Next Generation
At
the
Society's General Meeting in July 1998 it was my
honour
to have been
elected President of
the
Australian
and
New
Zealand Society of Criminology.
I would like to
thank
Members for
their
support,
and
hope
that
Ishall be able to
demonstrate
that
it was
not
misplaced. Iwould also like to express
not
only my
personal
thanks,
but
also
that
of
our
entire
membership, to
the
immediate past
President,
Arie
Freiberg;
Secretary,
Gayre
Christie;
and
Treasurer,
Belinda
Carpenter, for
their
capable stewardship over
the
past few years.
And
I would like
to welcome
our
new
Secretary and Treasurer,
John
Myrtle
and
Heather
Strang, to
their respective offices.
My
involvement
with
the
Society
goes
back
a
long
way. I
recall
my first
encounter: As a visitor at
the
Sydney University Institute of Criminology early in
1973, I was invited to
attend
ameeting of
the
Society's Executive. Advised
that
drinks would be served, I gratefully accepted. My most vivid recollection is of
the
then
Editor of
the
ANZJC, Dr
Allen
Bartholomew, encouraging submissions to
the
Journal. Flattered by his invitation, Itried my luck,
and
my first professional publi-
cation appeared
there
in 1974.
When
Imigrated to Australia four years later,
and
began to become involved in
the
Society's activities, it struck me
that
the
Society appeared to be dominated by
be-suited, grey
...
haired men.
Although
gender was
the
only
one
of
these properties
which
I
shared
with
the
"power
elite"
in
those
days, I'm afraid
that
after two
decades, I
have
now
become part of
the
problem.
Actually,
the
state of Australian
and
New Zealand criminology is healthier
than
ever. Its scope
and
diversity is refreshing. We
can
boast of world
...
class scholars in
our ranks, female
and
male.
Whatever
one
may
think
of
citation
analysis,
our
Journal
sits
alongside
Criminology,
the
British Journal of Criminology,
and
the
Canadian
Journal
of
Criminology,
as a basic source for David Farrington's assessment
of
the
most influential criminologists in
the
English-speaking world.
Our
Annual
Conference,
once
a
peripheral
section
of
the
ANZAAS
Meeting,
now
stands
proudly
on
its
own
feet,
and
has
become
an
international
event.
The
academic
study of criminology
and
criminal justice is booming from Wellington to Perth.
But we must always take care
not
to neglect
the
next
generation of Australian
and
New
Zealand criminologists -those who
have
yet to
tum
grey
and
whose
attire remains relatively comfortable. I am pleased to announce
that
our Executive
has
taken
a
number
of steps to encourage our younger colleagues.
First, we
have
decided to offer a reduced membership fee for full time students
at $68 per year. More established members will be pleased to
know
that
the
cost of
regular membership has been
reduced
by slightly over 10%, to $85 per year. I would
like to be able
to
offer membership
at
the
rate prevailing when I first joined - $10
(sic) per year,
but
that
could lead to
our
being placed in receivership.
Second,
the
Executive has decided to establish two new
annual
awards to recog-
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