NCJ Number
119079
Editor(s)
D Biles
Date Published
1988
Length
14 pages
Annotation
Twenty-five papers presented at the Australian Bicentennial International Congress on Corrective Services (1988) address the major practical and philosophical issues regarding the treatment of offenders at the end of the 20th century.
Abstract
Papers providing a general picture of corrections address international trends in the treatment of offenders, some major lessons from the history of corrections, ensuring professional standards in corrections, and practical issues for corrections in the 1990's. With a focus on the history of the British penal colony in Australia, one paper discusses the lessons of this history for policymaking regarding current prison overcrowding. A series of papers discusses the future of prisons in Canada, Australia, Hong Kong, and Japan. Correctional programs for indigenous people are discussed by the representative from Papua New Guinea. A representative from Malaysia considers how to cope with prison overcrowding, followed by a paper on the development of corrections in India and a discussion of crime and recidivism in Zimbabwe. Papers on the management of particular types of inmates focus on special-risk inmates, high-security inmates, terrorists, and intellectually disabled inmates. Other issues addressed are prison health care, prison management, community participation in corrections, inmate grievance procedures, the management of inmate drug abusers, and program-based prisons. Chapter references, subject index. For individual papers, see NCJ 119080-104.