Reform in Politics, Criminal Justice and the Police in Post-Fitzgerald Queensland
An Assessment
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 14970976 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Tim Prenzler (0000-0002-1635-1919, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 18 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 576-595 |
| Publication date | 2009-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Griffith Law Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1038-3441 • E-ISSN: 1839-4205 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/10854656.2009.10854656 |
| OpenAlex | W2031705106 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 3 |
This article reviews the main recommendations and reforms emanating from the 1989 Fitzgerald Inquiry in Queensland. The ups and downs of the reform process are chronicled under the three headings of 'politics', 'criminal justice' and 'police'. In politics, there has been a retreat from Fitzgerald's vision for integrity in government, evidenced by bias in the electoral system, the failure to establish transparency in government decision-making, violations of appointment by merit, and the politicisation of policing. In criminal justice, major hypocrisies and inefficiencies remain in the operation of the law, with a regressive approach to crime reduction through overreliance on imprisonment. In policing, the Fitzgerald vision for community policing was never implemented at the local level, and the pre-Fitzgerald model of police investigating police remains dominant. The article is focused on describing the nature and extent of the subversion of reform, with some reference to two contributing factors. The first is the gap between the general principles articulated in the Fitzgerald Report and the specific wording of its recommendations. The second concerns the power culture of the Australian Labor Party, whose winner-takes-all philosophy has triumphed over participatory democracy
Criminal justice · Criminology · Democracy · Economic Justice · Government (linguistics · Imprisonment · Law reform · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Subversion · Transparency (behavior · Commonwealth, Australian Politics and Federalism · Crime Patterns and Interventions · Law · Policing Practices and Perceptions
| Unique citing works | 3 |
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| Citations per year | 0,2 |
| Citation span | 2011 - 2023 (13) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |