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Defined Terms
'Conclusion' of
SOCIETY’S RESPONSE TO THE VIOLENT OFFENDER
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Australian Institute of Criminology
Below is an extract from the Prelude
of the Discussion Paper:
"Below is an extract from the 'Conclusion' of
SOCIETY’S RESPONSE TO THE VIOLENT OFFENDER
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Australian Institute of Criminology (First published in 1989, subsequently
updated) that provided (30 years ago) a prophetic, farsighted forecast of the -
A. continued reliance on building
more and more prisons largely due to
Penal Populism that alas has eventuated; and
B. "....lack
systematic information about the efficiency and effectiveness of alternative
policies."
"It has long been an article of faith among Australian
politicians that
there are no votes in prisons.
In the foreseeable future, penal policies appear
destined to be dictated not by hard-headed evaluation, but by ill-informed public opinion, by
fads, and by political expediency. Ultimately, it is the Australian taxpayer who will
bear the long-term costs of continuing penal programs
in the dark. The public and
policy-makers alike will lack systematic information about the efficiency and effectiveness of
alternative policies.
Thinking Outside the Cell Discussion
Paper purposely addresses the " lack
(of) systematic information about the efficiency and effectiveness of alternative
policies.....by hard-headed evaluation.... of the long-term costs of
continuing penal programs"
through modelling (at the end of the
Discussion Paper under
FORECAST REDUCTION IN (i) CRIMES COMMITTED, (ii) INMATES IN
JAILS AND (iii) EXPENDITURE ON THE JUSTICE SYSTEM) the reduction in
inter alia the
$18.431b expended on Australia's Justice Sector in 2018-19,
in particular the
$4.416b net operating annual expenditure on
Corrective Services in 2018-19,
by
implementing:
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Two recommended changes to Sentencing under criminal law within
State and Territory jurisdictions in Australia ;
and
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Offer
of assisted dying
by lethal injection
to
inmates
identified or sentenced
Never
To Be Released that has
been applied in Canada and shortly in Switzerland.
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