โ Scribed by A.A. Muir
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
In this connection there is some concern in New Zealand amongst both public and police a t the amount of gang warfare. The gangs have initiation ceremonies and seem to fight each other for the sake of fighting. In these battles there is as much fighting amongst gangsters of the same race as between different races. About 86% of the New Zealand population is white and the remainder Maori or from the Pacific Islanders. Among those arrested for crimes of violence, 53-73% are white and the remainder coloured.
Delivered with eloquence and wit by Professor Hulsman, this was a plea to see the primary social problem not as crime but the criminal justice system. Stated thus baldly, this may seem not to get us anywhere, but the address is well-worth studying in full, though it received savage treatment from a panel consisting of a judge, a professor of sociology, a psychiatrist and a chief superintendent of police.
Contributions came from a judge, a magistrate, a police surgeon (a specialist in rape cases), a Q.C. and a psychiatrist. The general view of scientists present was well expressed in the summary. "Frustration is probably the most common emotion felt by specialist witnesses in both criminal and civil courts of law. While advocacy is part of the training of a barrister, there is no equivalent on the role of a witness for a scientist who appears in courts regularly. Consequently by trial and error he must find his way through a maze of strict legal rules and cope with what he regards as a lack of sympathy both from the advocates and indeed often from the bench. He may see what he regards as a
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