A Nation Of Rogues?
Crime, Law and Punishment in Colonial Australia
Published on 31. August 1990
Book
Paperback/Softback
1 pages
978-0-522-84601-0 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Carlton
Australia
Product notice
Paperback (UK-trade)
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 14 mm
Weight
290 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-522-84601-0 (9780522846010)
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David Pilips was a retired associate professor in the School of Historical Studies at the University of Melbourne. A South African expatriate, he was active in the anti-apartheid movement and human rights issues. He authored, co-authored or co-edited more than a half-dozen books.
Susanne Davies is the Convenor of Legal Studies in the School of Social Sciences at La Trobe University. An historian by training, her teaching, research and writing interests span critical criminology, cultural studies, socio-legal history and gender and sexuality studies.
Susanne Davies is the Convenor of Legal Studies in the School of Social Sciences at La Trobe University. An historian by training, her teaching, research and writing interests span critical criminology, cultural studies, socio-legal history and gender and sexuality studies.
Content
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.