Vice in a Vicious Society: Crime and Convicts in Mid-nineteenth-century New South WalesIncludes references to the exclusion of Aborigines from the judicial process and to the role of racial conflict in violent crime. |
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Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Crime and Convict Discipline | 12 |
Anatomy of a Crime Wave 1844 | 35 |
Contamination and AntiTransportation | 51 |
Measuring Morality | 64 |
Appendix V | 82 |
Offenders Victims and Prosecuted Offences | 86 |
The Magistracy and Petty Offences | 118 |
Drunkenness | 141 |
Police and Public Order | 163 |
Conclusion | 184 |
Appendix III | 190 |
Appendix VI | 193 |
Index | 219 |
Copyright | |
Bibliographic information
| Title | Vice in a Vicious Society: Crime and Convicts in Mid-nineteenth-century New South Wales |
| Author | Michael Sturma |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | University of Queensland Press, 1983 |
| Original from | University of Minnesota |
| Digitized | 17 Feb 2017 |
| ISBN | 0702219118, 9780702219115 |
| Length | 224 pages |
| Subjects | › Social Science / Criminology |
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