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This article contents that the Australian criminal justice system is crimogenic to the extent that it fosters and compounds Indigenous anger. It explores a range of issues, including violence and deaths in custody, in light of the institutional, political and historical factors that shape the criminal justice justice system, and their relationship to Indigenous anger.

An assessment of the budgetary responsiveness of US governmental & political institutions to the growth of crime over the last four decades. Several linear decision models are developed that posit that changes in budgetary requests & appropriations for seven criminal justice agencies are functions of changes in the level of criminal activity & of partisan control of the presidency. Tests of these decision models confirm a substantial degree of budgetary responsiveness occurs at the request-formulation stage. While in the short run Congress has treated the proposed budgets of the more responsive agencies more severely, it has nonetheless allowed appropriations for criminal justice agencies to grow over the long run in a pattern quite consistent with changes in the crime rate. Virtually all of this responsiveness has occurred, however, under Republican presidents. The statistical performance of the models is quite good -- with, typically, over 50% of the variance accounted for, statistically significant longitudinal regression coefficients, & trivial levels of serial r. 3 Tables. HA.

AbstractThis paper introduces the special Ulster issue of the Journal. It argues that Ulster offers enough similarities with other jurisdictions in the British Isles to enable comparison, and enough distinctive features to make such comparison interesting. The papers in the issue are briefly commented upon. This paper goes on to identify a number of topics not dealt with in this issue where comparative research may be fruitful. These include: conditional release from prison; trends in crime reporting and clear‐up rates; the problems of maintaining civil rights at times of civil conflict; and the role of private security services in law enforcement.