Research Catalog

Title

Violence : the community and the administrator / edited by M.G. Kerr.

Publication

Wellington [N.Z.] : New Zealand Institute of Public Administration, 1977.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Kerr, M. G. (Maxwell Grainger), 1946-
• New Zealand Institute of Public Administration.

Description

145 pages : illustrations; 23 cm.

Summary

"This book is based on papers orginally presented at the 1976 Convention of the N.Z. Institute of Public Administration at Christchurch. The problem of law and order ... will probably always be with us The nature of the book and its subject may be judged from the fact that contributors include in turn a psychologist, a sociologist, a political scientist, a lawyer, a magistrate, a policeman and a Minister of the Crown, each of them in their own way involved in the question of violent behaviour and the administrative response. The book is as important for the questions which it raises as for those it attempts to answer: whether society is concerned about prevention or only about punishment ; whether it is more concerned for the symptoms than for the disease (if there be one) ; the role (if any) played by violent entertainment, whether on the screen or on the sports field ; whether latent violence can be channelled into more productive areas ; whether violence can be eliminated altogether ; whether some forms are more acceptable than others, and if so why. The answers to these endless, but important, questions are suggested in these papers."--Inside front cover.

Series Statement

Studies in public administration ; [no. 22]

Uniform Title

Studies in public administration (Wellington, N.Z.) ; no. 22.

Subject

• Violence
• Violence > New Zealand
• Crime
• Crime > New Zealand
• violence
• New Zealand

Note

• "Papers ... presented at the Institute's 1976 Convention at Christchurch."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographies.

Contents

Introduction / Max Kerr -- The origins of violence / Peter McKellar -- The "violence-threat" in New Zealand : a re-appraisal / Bob Gidlow -- Political violence & relative deprivation / Keith Ovenden -- Violence : an active volcano / D.J. Sullivan -- Violence, the community & the police / K.B. Burnside -- Violence : the challenge to the penal system / D.S. Thomson -- Whose violence / Allan J. Nixon.

LCCN

80473283

OCLC

• ocm06376529
• 6376529
• SCSB-524473

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library