From: Peter Grabosky <peter.grabosky@anu.edu.au>
Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2018 2:00 PM
To: Philip Johnston
Subject: RE: Will you or a colleague/s review my paper 'Looking
Outside the Cell' (on a DVD and USB Stick - easy to navigate) It re-introduces Corporal and Capital
Punishment to reduce the Baker's Dozen Problems?
- 1st Attachment is my explanatory letter to you
Phil:
I would start with this address in the
first instance: law.criminology@Sydney.edu.au
Cheers,
peter
From: Philip Johnston
<scribepj@bigpond.com>
Sent: Thursday, 11 October 2018 12:57 PM
To: Peter Grabosky <peter.grabosky@anu.edu.au>
Subject: RE: Will you or a colleague/s review my paper 'Looking Outside
the Cell' (on a DVD and USB Stick - easy to navigate) It re-introduces Corporal
and Capital Punishment to reduce the Baker's Dozen Problems? - 1st Attachment is my
explanatory letter to you
Peter
Thank you for your expeditious response.
I have just had a peek at the webpage titled “CrimNet - Sydney
Institute of Criminology” at https://wordvine.sydney.edu.au/files/2038/15360/
Below is an extract from the bottom of that webpage:
Would you like us to feature
information for you?
Get in touch with us
If you or your organisation would like us to feature criminal
justice news, publications, events or job opportunities,
please send
us an email. Please include all relevant details and information and we
will ensure it is included in the
next edition of CrimNet. There is no cost associated with advertising
criminology and criminal justice news and
information through CrimNet
Based on the above “Please include all
relevant details and information and we will ensure it is included in the
next edition of CrimNet.”, I am hopeful.
The email in the above blue tread is law.criminology@sydney.edu.au.
I will email to it, as well as to crimnet@law.usyd.edu.au
I will let you know if I ‘have any joy” with the Sydney Institute
of Criminology.
Cheers
Phil Johnston aka Bank Teller
0434 715.861
From: Peter Grabosky [mailto:peter.grabosky@anu.edu.au]
Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2018 9:24 AM
To: Philip Johnston <scribepj@bigpond.com>
Subject: RE: Will you or a colleague/s review my paper 'Looking Outside
the Cell' (on a DVD and USB Stick - easy to navigate) It re-introduces Corporal
and Capital Punishment to reduce the Baker's Dozen Problems? - 1st Attachment is my
explanatory letter to you
Dear Mr Johnston,
Thank you for your
message. Unfortunately, I have been retired for five years now, and have
drastically curtailed my professional engagements.
I must also confess that
I have not given much thought to corrections issues in the past
quarter-century, nor am I up to speed on who is currently working in the area.
May I suggest the following:
Send a brief paragraph
describing your work to the moderated bulletin board of Australian
criminologists, CRIMNET, inviting people who share your interests to contact
you directly.
I wish you every
success with your work.
Sincerely,
Peter Grabosky
From: Philip Johnston
<scribepj@bigpond.com>
Sent: Wednesday, 10 October 2018 3:09 PM
To: Peter Grabosky <peter.grabosky@anu.edu.au>
Subject: Will you or a colleague/s review my paper 'Looking Outside the
Cell' (on a DVD and USB Stick - easy to navigate) It re-introduces Corporal and
Capital Punishment to reduce the Baker's Dozen Problems? - 1st Attachment is my
explanatory letter to you
My
name is Philip Johnston. I retired 10 years ago from CBA where I
administered and financed several large infrastructure projects (purchase of
Sydney Airport and Brisbane Airports post-privatization,
construction of Sydney Harbour Tunnel ‘et al’).
Attachment
'A' is
a PDF of a Masters in Applied Finance degree that I received from Macq Uni in
2001, after receiving a B.A. with a major in Economics a long while earlier.
Over
recent months I have expended hundreds of hours researching the Australian
Criminal Justice System, in particular Corrective Services due to the Baker's Dozen Problems - Attachment 'B'.
You
are the first academic that I have written to because of the below pertinent
extract from the opening page of your paper that appeared in AUST
& NZ JOURNAL OF CRIMINOLOGY (July 1991)
(139.143) [Attachment ‘C’] titled:
ON THE HISTORY OF PUNISHMENT
IN AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND
Those
engaged in research on the history of punishment may be so for a variety of
motives.
Some may be driven by pure intellectual curiosity, others, perhaps, by
sublimated punitive
impulses. Others still, not content with a mere understanding of the forces
which
have shaped penal policy, seek to influence these forces now and in the future.
But our concern here is history as an independent variable: Of what use is it?
What
purpose does it serve? What can it achieve?
Research on the history of punishment can enhance
our understanding of
contemporary issues.
Occasionally, even governments seek out historical knowledge.
(eg, Gurr, Grabosky and Hula, 1977; Grabosky 1977). Lamentably, governmental
interest in affairs of the past now appears all but non-existent, and
practitioners
of criminal justice tend not to be appreciative of historical inquiry. At
best, the
nostalgia buffs among them find it interesting, if not terribly useful. The
more cynical,
whose vision extends no further than the next election, are probably inclined
to the
attitude of Henry Ford: 'History is more or less bunk.'
I
seek to have published on a 'prison reform' N-F-P website my paper titled 'Looking
Outside the Cell' which is on a DVD and also USB Stick Flash
Drive? Will you or a colleague/s review it? Any contributions
by an academic/s would be acknowledged in my publication. A burnt
DVD provides greater integrity and will auto-open (in a Windows
operating system) at my covering letter to you, whereupon the reader can
readily navigate by clicking on embedded threads therein.
If
my request doesn’t interest you, I welcome the name of anyone with a knowledge
of the Criminal Justice System, in particular Correctional Services, that may
be interested in reading my paper, because it covers all pertinent issues,
whereas none of the 150+ papers that I have read (listed in Attachment ‘D’),
have done.
The
Baker's Dozen Problems have manifested in the USA, UK, Canada and Australia. The
Scandinavian countries and Texas USA have achieved success with Restorative
Justice.
As
explained in the final page of my 1st Attachment (my letter to you),
with the assistance of an I.T. Nerd (golfing compadre), I have developed
CitizenVoting software using Google
Forms and Google Sheets. Last Friday I posted my submission to
Julia Baird at the ABC ‘The Drum’ regarding another project of mine
Australia’s Ten Corporate Aspirational Ethical Codes.
Click
on my CitizenVoting webpage.
The software enables interested citizens to ‘Pole Vote’ on the merit of
each Code. Attachment ‘I’ notes that I enticed 61 ‘friends and foe’
have Voted on my Ten Corporate Commandments. They are listed as ‘Responses’
in the Google Forms software.
Pole
Voting is as simple as entering an email address, ticking an ‘A’, ‘B’, ’C’, D’
or ‘E’ under each Corporate Commandment, then clicking on ‘Submit.’ Feel
free to try it. Use an old email address, if you have any concerns, but
to the best of my knowledge none of the 61 Voters thus far did so.
My
CitizenVoting software could readily
enable interested citizens to ‘Pole Vote’ on alternative punishment and
rehabilitation models after they have been provided with all the pertinent
facts that would be contained in the ‘final cut’ of my 'Looking
Outside the Cell'.
One
of my concerns with Gallup Polls on Capital Punishment is that the people being
polled do not know all the facts, costs and failings of the Correctional
Services System, where ‘serving your time’ is Punishment, with
insufficient regard and resources to Rehabilitation and Education within the
prison system.
Phil Johnston aka Bank Teller
0434 715.861
