https://www.acpc.org.au

Peter

 

In the last week 21 year old Arab-Israeli student, Aiia Maasarwe, was brutally raped and murdered metres from a tram stop in Bundoora, in Melbourne's north.

If the accused, Codey Herrmann, is found guilty he will likely be sentenced to at least 15 years jail costing the Public Purse $175,000 pa ($150k Admin + $25k capital works).

 

Last June, 22-year-old comedian, Eurydice Dixon, was slain in Melb.

 

My research paper, Thinking Outside the Cell, calls for material changes to Sentencing (currently prescribed at MAXIMUM PENALTIES by the Sentencing Advisory Council for Victoria). 

 

My Paper is based on over 200 articles, reports, submissions listed in my 2^nd Attachment which contains URLs that open my separate analysis htm file for each article that I have read and analysed.

 

My 3^rd Attachment provides URLs to 12 htm files for the Baker's Dozen Problems within the Australian Prison System.

 

Thinking Outside the Cell –

(i)                 provides for judges to Sentence both Capital Punishment and Corporal Punishment to reduce existing jail incarceration sentences at MAXIMUM PENALTIES by approx 50%, because Corporal Punishment is the Punishment (Incarceration is not the Punishment). Prison is for Rehabilitation;

(ii)               draws largely on my 4^th Attachment ‘Incarceration Practices based on the Restorative Justice Model Successfully Adopted in Scandinavia since the late 20th century’ where prisons predominantly are rehabilitation institutions; and

(iii)             addresses every aspect required to materially reduce re-offending rates which are a disgrace to -
*     our Correctional Services’ Punishments, Deterrents and Rehabilitation programmes; and
*     the ineptitude of our governments to change current treatments that have failed abysmally.

 

Below is a summary of my three unanswered request emails to Sydney Institute of Criminology merely asking it to publish my invitation set out under the heading "Discussion Paper - Thinking Outside the Cell" on the moderated bulletin board of Australian criminologists, CRIMNET:

1.      crimnet@law.usyd.edu.au                  Sun 14-Oct-18 10:37 AM

2.      crimnet@law.usyd.edu.au                  Tue 06-Nov-18 11:23 AM

3.      law.criminology@sydney.edu.au       Mon 19-Nov-18 11:08 AM

 

One option to me is to write a letter to the Vice Chancellor, Professor Michael Spence, -

·         providing a hard copy of my above emails; and

·         asking why I have not received a response mindful of 80 circa Femicides annually and 27 circa Filicides annually,

because current Punishments are not addressing these avoidable deaths of generally innocent defenseless humans.

 

Do you know any person, of institution, that represents/claims/asserts that it wants the following reduced –

(i)                 recidivism rates

(ii)               prison riots

(iii)             annually Femicides and Filicides?

 

I seek interested persons to ‘peer review’ my Paper which addresses each and every facet to reduce (i), (ii) and (iii) above.  I will post a DVD or USB Flash Drive that contains Thinking Outside the Cell to anyone who responds that they will expend a minimum of three hours reading it and provide to me their written thoughts.

 

My 3^rd last Attachment is my Thinking Outside the Cell paper.  However, it is not possible to open the plethora of embedded threads to supplementary htm, Excel, jpg and pdf files that support/explain the issue/s.

 

My 2^nd last and last Attachments are the DVD Plastic Case and DVD.

 

Phil Johnston aka  Bank Teller
0434 715.861

 

From: Philip Johnston [mailto:scribepj@bigpond.com]
Sent: Monday, November 5, 2018 6:18 PM
To: 'Peter Grabosky' <peter.grabosky@anu.edu.au>
Subject: RE: Will the Sydney Institute of Criminology publish my invitation set out under the heading "Discussion Paper - Thinking Outside the Cell" on the moderated bulletin board of Australian criminologists, CRIMNET?

 

Thanks, Pete.

 

I will let you know when I receive “some joy”.

 

Phil Johnston aka  Bank Teller
0434 715.861

 

From: Peter Grabosky [mailto:peter.grabosky@anu.edu.au]
Sent: Monday, November 5, 2018 5:27 PM
To: Philip Johnston <scribepj@bigpond.com>
Subject: Re: Will the Sydney Institute of Criminology publish my invitation set out under the heading "Discussion Paper - Thinking Outside the Cell" on the moderated bulletin board of Australian criminologists, CRIMNET?

 

Dear Phil,

I suspect that the editors might find this too long for publication in their mailing.

I would guess that about one or two brief paragraphs are about all they could handle.

Cheers,

Peter

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From: Philip Johnston <scribepj@bigpond.com>
Sent: Monday, 5 November 2018 3:50:46 PM
To: Peter Grabosky
Subject: FW: Will the Sydney Institute of Criminology publish my invitation set out under the heading "Discussion Paper - Thinking Outside the Cell" on the moderated bulletin board of Australian criminologists, CRIMNET?

 

Peter

 

I haven’t rec’d a response from crimnet@law.usyd.edu.au.

I welcome you reading my below DRAFT follow up email to crimnet@law.usyd.edu.au, as I would like to send it or something similar.

 

Cheers
Phil Johnston
0434 715.861

 

MY DRAFT FOLLOW UP EMAIL STARTS NOW

I refer to my below email sent 14 Oct 2018 titled ‘Will the Sydney Institute of Criminology publish my invitation set out under the heading “Discussion Paper – Thinking Outside the Cell” on the moderated bulletin board of Australian criminologists, CRIMNET?‘

 

Below is an extract from "CORRECTIONAL SERVICES IN AUSTRALIA - YEAR IN REVIEW & 2018 OUTLOOK" produced by legal firm, Corrs, Chambers, Westgarth:

 

"Correctional Services attracts media headlines, political scrutiny and fierce debate across the nation. With 112 custodial facilities holding over 41,000 people at a cost of approximately $3.7 billion, it’s little wonder there is intense focus in Australia on whether this investment can be justified by the outcomes.  More fundamentally, we need to question whether there is any broad consensus within society on -
*      what these outcomes ought to be; and
*      what level of resources should be expended to achieve them."

Thinking Outside the Cell responds to "... we need to question whether there is any broad consensus within society........" by -

(a)      seeking custodial facilities (prisons) to not only Punish and Deter, but importantly Rehabilitate a greater number of inmates -
*       to gain meaningful employment after being released; and
*       not to re-offend;

(b)      reversing the alarming pattern of burgeoning inmate numbers with Many Prisons At Breaking Point; and

(c)      reducing the associated $3.7 billion - $4 billion annual cost to the Public Purse which ideally should be directed at 'education and health expenditure' on 'current and future taxpayers', where many of Australia's trading partners, noticeably China, South Korea, Singapore, Thailand, Indonesia, direct their Public Purse.

Attachment D -Baker's Dozen Unsustainable Problems is testimony that the more recent Warehouse Sentencing in some western countries, driven by Penal Populism, has failed Dozenly.

Below is an extract from Chapter 3 - The economic and social costs of imprisonment of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Report "Value of a justice reinvestment approach to criminal justice in Australia" - 20 June 2013:

            "Governments need to address the long term economic and social costs of imprisonment to prevent further development of intergenerational offending, and occurrences of recidivism."

My research is that Govt hasn’t addressed what the above Parliamentary beseeched Govt to address “The economic and social costs of imprisonment.”  My Discussion paper titled ‘Thinking Outside the Cell’ addresses it cost-effectively.

https://wordvine.sydney.edu.au/files/2038/21166/#notices-4

 

Below is a ‘print screen’ of the above webpage which lists “Would you like us to feature information for you?”.

 

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Should I send this email to law.criminology@sydney.edu.au ? Or is crimnet@law.usyd.edu.au the better recipient?

 

Phil Johnston aka  Bank Teller
0434 715.861

 

From: Philip Johnston [mailto:scribepj@bigpond.com]
Sent: Sunday, October 14, 2018 10:37 AM
To: 'crimnet@law.usyd.edu.au' <crimnet@law.usyd.edu.au>
Subject: Will the Sydney Institute of Criminology publish my invitation set out under the heading “Discussion Paper – Thinking Outside the Cell” on the moderated bulletin board of Australian criminologists, CRIMNET?

 

Will the Sydney Institute of Criminology publish my invitation set out below under the heading “Discussion Paper – Thinking Outside the Cell” on the moderated bulletin board of Australian criminologists, CRIMNET?

 

My further below indented text –

 

A.   outlines my ‘Thinking Outside the Cell’ model for Australia’s Correctional Services prisons (based on research evident in Attachments ‘C’ and ‘E’) to reduce the magnitude of a Baker's Dozen Problems (Attachment ‘B’) with the Australian prison system and the horrific incidence of homicides annually due to domestic violence; and

 

B.   invites readers (to contact me at scribepj@gmail.com) who share my belief that sentencing of both Corporal Punishment and Capital Punishment need to be re-introduced on a restrained basis, for some criminals.  In the case of Capital Punishment for some premediated murders, to reduce –

       I.    the magnitude of a Baker's Dozen Problems (Attachments ‘B’) within the Australian prison system; and

       II.   homicides due to domestic violence.

 

Attachment ‘D’ is one of over 150 articles, reports, submissions (listed in Attachment ‘C’) that I have –

1.    downloaded a PDF or a html file;

2.    extracted the text and saved the text in a htm file;

3.    read and colour background interesting parts of those papers; and

4.    linked the htm file with an embedded thread, so readers can readily validate the source of all information in my Discussion Paper.

 

 

Discussion Paper – Thinking Outside the Cell

 

“My name is Philip Johnston.  I retired 10 years ago after a long career at one of the Four Pillar banks where I administered as ‘Agent bank’ several large infrastructure projects (purchase of Sydney Airport and Brisbane Airports post-privatization, construction of Sydney Harbour Tunnel ‘et al’).

 

I attained a B.A. with a major in Economics and a Masters in Applied Finance from Macq Uni.

 

Femicide Australia Project research shows 108 adult men, 48 adult women and 17 children and young people were killed due to domestic violence in 2017.  The Australian Femicide Facebook page reports 63 women murdered thus far in 2018.

 

Over 50% of inmates released from Australian prisons in 2014 had returned to prison within three years.

 

After reading over 150 papers, submissions, articles, reports, I have written a discussion paper titled 'Looking Outside the Cell' (available on a DVD and also USB Stick Flash Drive) that prosecutes the case to sentence both Corporal and Capital Punishments on a restrained basis, the latter being sentenced for some criminals for some premediated murder/s, to reduce –

I.      the magnitude of a Baker's Dozen Problems within the Australian prison system; and

II.     the horrendous annual homicide rates caused by domestic violence.

 

The Scandinavian countries and Texas USA have achieved success with Restorative Justice and are not experiencing the Baker's Dozen Problems to the same unsustainable extent as in the remainder of the USA states, the UK, Canada and Australia.

 

A burnt DVD provides greater integrity than a USB Stick and will auto-open (in a Windows operating system) at my 'Looking Outside the Cell' discussion paper.  A reader can readily click on embedded threads therein to review source material relied upon.

 

I will post a DVD or a USB Stick to anyone who -
A.        agrees the need to re-introduce both Capital and Corporal Punishment; and

B.        emails me at scribepj@gmail.com that that they are prepared to expend at least –

*        two hours to read my paper 'Looking Outside the Cell'; and

*        will then email me or ‘phone me with their comments.”

 

Phil Johnston aka  Bank Teller
0434 715.861

 

 

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