A Nation of rogues? : crime, law, and punishment in colonial Australia

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A Nation of rogues? : crime, law, and punishment in colonial Australia

edited by David Philips and Susanne Davies

Melbourne University Press, 1994

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Crime, law, and punishment in colonial Australia

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注記

Includes bibliographical references (p. 228-231) and index

収録内容

  • On her own hands / Paula Jane Byrne
  • The royal bastard as policeman? / David Philips
  • Magistrates, police and power in Port Phillip / Darren Palmer
  • Anatomy of a rape case, 1888 / David Philips
  • A tangle of paradoxes / Gary Highland
  • Ragged, dirty
  • infamous and obscene / Susanne Davies
  • Arbitrary chivalry / Kathy Laster

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内容説明

Were we a nation of rogues? Beyond recurrent images of convicts and bushrangers, what do we know about ordinary people's experience of crime and punishment in colonial Australia?Despite an abundance of sources, it is only recently that this question has been framed and answers sought. the impetus has come from concern with current issues such as relations between police and Aboriginal communities, and the significance of sex/gender in our social order. These essays deal with the police and the criminal law in action. Their subjects include women under the convict system in New South Wales; the paradoxical relationship between race, justice and criminal law in north Queensland; and the regulation of the vagrant in late-nineteenth-century Melbourne. In telling individual stories, they point to patterns of common experience. This new and accessible social history makes a forceful contribution to contemporary debate.

目次

  • On her own hands - women and criminal law in New South Wales, 1810-1830, Paula Jane Byrne
  • the Royal bastard as policeman? - William Augustus Miles and the Sydney police, 1841-1848, David Philips
  • magistrates, police and power in Port Phillip, David Palmer
  • anatomy of a rape case, 1888 - sex, race, violence and criminal law in Victoria, David Philips
  • a tangle of paradoxes - race, justice and criminal law in North Queensland, 1882-1894, Gary Highland
  • "ragged, dirty ... infamous and obscene" - the "vagrant" in the late-19th-century Melbourne, Susanne Davies
  • arbitrary chivalry - women and capital punishment in Victoria, 1842-1967, Kathy Laster.

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