Howard Vincent and the development of probation in Australia, New Zealand and the United Kingdom∗

White, Stephen

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“…The proportion of mobile offenders also rose during the early 1900s. Perhaps, then, rural women disproportionately benefitted from changes in sentencing practices-such as the release of first-time offenders on probation-that saw fewer women entering the prison system overall (White 1979).…”

Section: Offending Patterns and Spatial Locations Over Timementioning

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Imprisonment of Female Urban and Rural Offenders in Victoria, 1860-1920

Nagy

Piper

2019

Int J for Crime, Justice & Social Democracy

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This paper examines imprisonment data from Victoria between 1860 and 1920 to gather insights into the variations in incidence of women being convicted by rural versus urban courts, including close focus on the difference in types of offences being committed in urban and rural locations. This paper also details women’s mobility between both communities as well as change in their offending profiles based on their geographic locations. Our findings suggest that while the authorities were broadly most concerned with removing disorderly and vagrant women from both urban and rural streets, rural offending had its own characteristics that differentiate it from urban offending. Therefore, this demonstrates that when examining female offending, geographic location of an offender and offence must be taken into consideration.

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Section: Offending Patterns and Spatial Locations Over Timementioning

confidence: 99%

Imprisonment of Female Urban and Rural Offenders in Victoria, 1860-1920

Nagy

Piper

2019

Int J for Crime, Justice & Social Democracy

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“…The basis of the data was presumably the reporting in prison entry books. One rationale for the identification may have been the obligations established by the Queensland probation reporting system after 1887 (White, 1979). This system entailed strict personal identification of discharged prisoners, whose exit from prison was also regularly reported in the Queensland Police Gazette, along with relevant personal details.…”

Section: Assessing the Incidence Of Violence -Problems Of Data And Mementioning

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Aboriginal Violence and State Response: Histories, Policies and Legacies in Queensland 1860–1940

Finnane

Richards

2010

Australian & New Zealand Journal of Criminology

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During the long era of 'protection' (enacted in 1897, flourishing in the inter-war years and with effects continuing to this day) policy towards Australian Indigenous people suspected of inter-personal violence was ambiguous in its objectives and its means. Formally Indigenous peoples in Australia were British subjects entitled to the full protection of the law. As a consequence violence between Indigenous people was made visible through the conduct of inquests, police inquiries and in many cases subsequent arrest and charge with a criminal offence. Disposal of those charged or even suspected of crimes reflects tension between the universalising presumptions of the criminal law and the particularising effects of welfare regimes that ruled the lives of Indigenous people. Drawing on archives of inquests, courts and prisons in the Queensland jurisdiction before 1940, this article examines the policies and decisionmaking that characterised a state which remained determinedly colonial in its practises and ambitions. In conclusion, we consider briefly the question of how distinctive or how representative was Queensland practice as a state response to Indigenous violence during these decades of colonial subordination.

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“…In the following year Ranking became interested in adapting for Queensland use Sir Howard Vincent's Police Code and Manual of Criminal Law, first published in 1881. Vincent, an important figure in English police and penal policy in the later 19th century, was a lawyer by training, had been Director of Criminal Investigation at Scotland Yard and was responsible in the 1880s for introducing the probation alternative to imprisonment in Australasia (White, 1979). His Code reflected a lawyer's interest in the containment of police powers, epitomised by its prefatory "Address to Police Constables on their Duties", by Sir Henry Hawkins, a noted Criminal Court judge, The tone and orientation of this "address" were to be a matter of contention in the arguments over the preparations of a Queensland rule-book.…”

Section: Police Code or Constable's Manual?mentioning

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Police rules and the organisation of policing in Queensland, 1905–1916

Finnane

1989

Australian & New Zealand Journal of Criminology

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The development of the modern form of policing required a bureaucratic apparatus complete with rules and regulations prescribing police procedures. In spite of the organisational significance of police rule books and manuals, little is known about their origins and composition. Conflict between the Queensland Police Commissioner, W G Cahill , and other senior criminal justice system personnel over the content and authorisation of a police rule book for Queensland suggests that the prescription of police practices and procedure was itself the outcome of longer-term changes in the organisation of policing; in particular of an increasing demand for police autonomy of other elements of the criminal justice system.

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Howard Vincent and the development of probation in Australia, New Zealand and the United Kingdom∗

Cited by 5 publications

References 3 publications

Imprisonment of Female Urban and Rural Offenders in Victoria, 1860-1920

Imprisonment of Female Urban and Rural Offenders in Victoria, 1860-1920

Aboriginal Violence and State Response: Histories, Policies and Legacies in Queensland 1860–1940

Police rules and the organisation of policing in Queensland, 1905–1916

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