A History Of Capital Punishment In The Australian Colonies 1788 To 1900

Author : Steven Anderson
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2020-09-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030537678

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A History of Capital Punishment in the Australian Colonies, 1788 to 1900 by Steven Anderson Pdf

This book provides a comprehensive overview of capital punishment in the Australian colonies for the very first time. The author illuminates all aspects of the penalty, from shortcomings in execution technique, to the behaviour of the dying criminal, and the antics of the scaffold crowd. Mercy rates, execution numbers, and capital crimes are explored alongside the transition from public to private executions and the push to abolish the death penalty completely. Notions of culture and communication freely pollinate within a conceptual framework of penal change that explains the many transformations the death penalty underwent. A vast array of sources are assembled into one compelling argument that shows how the ‘lesson’ of the gallows was to be safeguarded, refined, and improved at all costs. This concise and engaging work will be a lasting resource for students, scholars, and general readers who want an in-depth understanding of a long feared punishment. Dr. Steven Anderson is a Visiting Research Fellow in the History Department at The University of Adelaide, Australia. His academic research explores the role of capital punishment in the Australian colonies by situating developments in these jurisdictions within global contexts and conceptual debates.

Author : Tim Causer,Margot Finn,Philip Schofield
Publisher : UCL Press
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2022-04-28
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781787358188

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Jeremy Bentham and Australia by Tim Causer,Margot Finn,Philip Schofield Pdf

Jeremy Bentham and Australia is a collection of scholarship inspired by Bentham’s writings on Australia. These writings are available for the first time in authoritative form in Panopticon versus New South Wales and other writings on Australia, a volume in The Collected Works of Jeremy Bentham published by UCL Press. In the present collection, a distinguished group of authors reflect on Bentham’s Australian writings, making original contributions to existing debates and setting agendas for future ones. In the first part of the collection, the works are placed in their historical contexts, while the second part provides a critical assessment of the historical accuracy and plausibility of Bentham’s arguments against transportation from the British Isles. In the third part, attention turns to Bentham’s claim that New South Wales had been illegally founded and to the imperial and colonial constitutional ramifications of that claim. Here, authors also discuss Bentham’s work of 1831 in which he supports the establishment of a free colony on the southern coast of Australia. In the final part, authors shed light on the history of Bentham’s panopticon penitentiary scheme, his views on the punishment and reform of criminals and what role, if any, religion had to play in that regard, and discuss apparently panopticon-inspired institutions built in the Australian colonies. This collection will appeal to readers interested in Bentham’s life and thought, the history of transportation from the British Isles, and of British penal policy more generally, colonial and imperial history, Indigenous history, legal and constitutional history, and religious history.

Author : Hamish Maxwell-Stewart,Michael Quinlan
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2022-01-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789811675584

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Unfree Workers by Hamish Maxwell-Stewart,Michael Quinlan Pdf

This book examines how convicts played a key role in the development of capitalism in Australia and how their active resistance shaped both workplace relations and institutions. It highlights the contribution of convicts to worker mobilization and political descent, forcing a rethink of Australia’s foundational story. It is a book that will appeal to an international audience, as well as the many hundreds of thousands of Australians who can trace descent from convicts. It will enable the latter to make sense of the experience of their ancestors, equipping them with the necessary tools to understand convict and court records. It will also provide a valuable undergraduate and postgraduate teaching tool and reference for those studying unfree labour and worker history, social history, colonization and global migration in a digital age.

Author : Stacey Hynd
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2023-11-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350302655

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Imperial Gallows by Stacey Hynd Pdf

Not just a method of crime control or individual punishment in Britain's African territories, the death penalty was an integral aspect of colonial networks of power and violence. Imperial Gallows analyses capital trials from Kenya, Nyasaland and the Gold Coast to explore the social tensions that fueled murder among colonised populations, and how colonial legal cultures and landscapes of political authority shaped sentencing and mercy. It demonstrates how ideas of race, ethnicity, gender and 'civilization' could both spare and condemn Africans convicted of murder in colonial courts, and also how Africans could either appropriate or resist such colonial legal discourses in their trials and petitions. In this book, Stacey Hynd follows the whole process of capital punishment from the identification of a murder victim to trial and conviction, through the process of mercy and sentencing onto death row and execution. The scandals that erupted over the death penalty, from botched executions and moral panics over ritual murder, to the hanging of anti-colonial rebels for 'terrorist' and emergency offences, provide significant insights into the shifting moral and political economies of colonial violence. This monograph contextualises the death penalty within the wider penal systems and coercive networks of British colonial Africa to highlight the shifting targets of the imperial gallows against rebels, robbers or domestic murderers. Imperial Gallows demonstrates that while hangings were key elements of colonial iconography in British Africa, symbolically loaded events that demonstrated imperial power and authority, they also reveal the limits of that power.

Author : Cyril Joseph Cummins
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Health services administration
ISBN : 0734736215

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A History of Medical Administration in New South Wales, 1788-1973 by Cyril Joseph Cummins Pdf

Author : Alex Cuthbert Castles
Publisher : Lawbook Company
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105060966921

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Annotated Bibliography of Printed Materials on Australian Law 1788-1900 by Alex Cuthbert Castles Pdf

Arrangement is alphabetical and excludes single printed pamphlet copies of statutory material. Material for this detailed bibliography has been taken from both public and private collections. Includes an index, a table of cases and a table of statutes. The author was professor of law at the University of Adelaide 1967-1994.

Author : Satyanshu Kumar Mukherjee
Publisher : Unwin Hyman
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1981-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 086861386X

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Crime Trends in Twentieth-Century Australia by Satyanshu Kumar Mukherjee Pdf

Author : Bruce Swanton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : History
ISBN : UVA:X001502770

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The Police of Sydney, 1788-1862 by Bruce Swanton Pdf

Author : Stephen Nicholas
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : History
ISBN : 0521361265

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Convict Workers by Stephen Nicholas Pdf

This work offers a new interpretation of Australia's convict past. It is based on a detailed analysis of records of 20,000 male and female convicts - one in three of those transported to New South Wales between 1817 and 1840.

Author : Peter N. Grabosky
Publisher : Canberra : Australian National University Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Law
ISBN : UOM:39015031449534

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Sydney in Ferment by Peter N. Grabosky Pdf

Examination of trends in criminal behaviour, political dissidence, collective violence and crime control policies in New South Wales from 1788 to the early 1970s ; includes references to conflict with Aboriginal people ; massacres ; and discrimination against Aboriginal people.

Author : Ronit Ricci
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2016-05-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9780824853754

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Exile in Colonial Asia by Ronit Ricci Pdf

Exile was a potent form of punishment and a catalyst for change in colonial Asia between the seventeenth and early twentieth centuries. Vast networks of forced migration supplied laborers to emerging colonial settlements, while European powers banished rivals to faraway locations. Exile in Colonial Asia explores the phenomenon of exile in ten case studies by way of three categories: “kings,” royals banished as political exiles; “convicts,” the vast majority of those whose lives are explored in this volume, sent halfway across the world with often unexpected consequences; and “commemoration,” referring to the myriad ways in which the experience and its aftermath were remembered by those exiled, relatives left behind, colonial officials, and subsequent generations of descendants, devotees, historians, and politicians. Intended for a broad readership interested in the colonial period in Asia (South and Southeast Asia in particular), the volume encompasses a range of disciplinary perspectives: anthropology, gender studies, literature, history, and Asian, Australian, and Pacific studies. In addition to presenting fascinating, little-known, and varied case studies of exile in colonial Asia and Australia, the chapters collectively offer a sweeping, contextualized, comparative approach that links the narratives of diverse peoples and locales. Rather than confining research to the European colonial archives, whenever possible the authors put special emphasis on the use of indigenous primary sources hitherto little explored. Exile in Colonial Asia invites imaginative methodological innovation in exploring multiple archives and expands our theoretical frontiers in thinking about the interconnected histories of penal deportation, labor migration, political exile, colonial expansion, and individual destinies.

Author : John Rickard
Publisher : Longman Publishing Group
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015015352456

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Australia, a Cultural History by John Rickard Pdf

Author : Alan Lester,Fae Dussart
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2014-04-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107007833

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Colonization and the Origins of Humanitarian Governance by Alan Lester,Fae Dussart Pdf

This book reveals the ways in which those responsible for creating Britain's nineteenth-century empire sought to make colonization compatible with humanitarianism.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Aboriginal Australians
ISBN : OCLC:1287848584

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Bringing Them Home by Anonim Pdf

Author : Alex Cuthbert Castles
Publisher : Lawbook Company
Page : 586 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Law
ISBN : STANFORD:36105043779219

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An Australian Legal History by Alex Cuthbert Castles Pdf

Includes cases, concepts and principles affecting status of Aboriginal people under British law; territorium nullius and non-recognition of Aboriginal land rights.