Crime and Criminal Justice

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Bavin-Mizzi, Jill. Ravished: Sexual Violence in Victorian Australia.  Sydney: University of New South Wales Press, 1995.

Bellanta, Melissa and Alana Piper, “Looking flash: disreputable women’s dress and ‘modernity’, 1870-1910,” History Workshop Journal, 78, no. 1 (2014): 58-81.

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Bellanta, Melissa. Larrikins: A History.  St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 2012.

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Coleman, J. D. “Vested Interests: The Con Artist, the Historian, and the Feminist Biographer.” a/b: Auto/Biography Studies 25, no. 1 (2010): 18-31.

Coleman, J. D. Mad or bad? The life and exploits of Amy Bock (1859 -1943). Dunedin, New Zealand: Otago University Press, 2010.

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Dalley, Bronwyn. “Following the Rules? Women’s Responses to Incarceration, New Zealand, 1880-1920.” Journal of Social History 27, no. 2 (1993): 309-25

Dalley, Bronwyn. “Lolly Shops ‘of the Red-Light Kind’ and ‘Soldiers of the King’: Suppressing One-Woman Brothels in New Zealand, 1908-1916.” New Zealand Journal of History 30, no. 1 (1996): 3-23.

Daniels, Kay. “Prostitution in Tasmania During the Transition from Penal Settlement to ‘Civilized’ Society.” In So Much Hard Work: Women and Prostitution in Australian History, edited by Kay Daniels, 15-86. Sydney: Fontana Books, 1984.

Davidson, Raelene. “Dealing with the ‘Social Evil’: Prostitution and the Police in Perth and on the Eastern Goldfields, 1895-1924.” In So Much Hard Work: Women and Prostitution in Australian History, edited by Kay Daniels, 162-91. Sydney: Fontana Books, 1984.

Davies, Sue. “Working Their Way to Respectability: Women, Vagrancy, and Reform in Late Nineteenth Century Melbourne.” Lilith: A Feminist History Journal, no. 6 (1989): 50-63.

Davies, Susanne. “Captives of Their Bodies: Women, Law and Punishment, 1880s-1980s.” In Sex, Power and Justice: Historical Perspectives on Law in Australia, edited by Diane Kirkby, 99-115. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995.

Delamoir, Jeannette. “’It Pulsates with Dramatic Power’: White Slavery, Popular Culture and Modernity in Australia in 1913.” Journal of Australian Studies, no. 82 (2004): 25-36.

Doyle, Sue. “The Pyjama Girl.” Journal of Australian Studies 24, no. 64 (2000): 34–41.

Evans, Raymond. “’Soiled Doves’: Prostitution in Colonial Queensland.” In So Much Hard Work: Women and Prostitution in Australian History, edited by Kay Daniels, 127-61. Sydney: Fontana Books, 1984.

Featherstone, Lisa and Amanda Kaladelfos. Sex Crimes in the Fifties. Carlton, Vic., Melbourne University Press, 2016.

Finch, Lyn, and Jon Stratton. “The Australian Working Class and the Practice of Abortion 1880-1939.” Journal of Australian Studies 12, no. 23 (1988): 45-64.

Finlay, Henry. To Have but Not to Hold: A History of Attitudes to Marriage and Divorce in Australia 1858-1975 Sydney: The Federation Press, 2005.

Ford, Ruth. “‘The man-woman murderer’: sex fraud, sexual inversion and the unmentionable article in 1920s Australia.” Gender and History 12, no. 1 (2000): 158-196.

Frances, Raelene and Gray, Alicia. “Unsatisfactory, Discriminatory, Unjust and Inviting Corruption: Feminists and the Decriminalisation of Street Prostitution in New South Wales.” Australian Feminist Studies 22, no. 53 (2007): 307-24.

Frances, Raelene. “’White Slaves’ and White Australia: Prostitution and Australian Society.” Australian Feminist Studies 19, no. 33 (2004): 185-200.

Frances, Raelene. “Australian Prostitution in International Context.” Australian Historical Studies, no. 106 (1996): 127-41.

Frances, Raelene. “The History of Female Prostitution in Australia.” In Sex Work & Sex Workers in Australia, edited by Roberta Perkins, 27-52. Sydney: University of New South Wales Press, 1994.

Frances, Raelene. Selling Sex: A Hidden History of Prostitution.  Sydney: University of New South Wales Press, 2007.

Frances, Simon Adams and Raelene. “Lifting the Veil: The Sex Industry, Museums and Galleries.” Labour History, no. 85 (November 2003): 47-64.

Genovese, Ann. “The Battered Body.” Australian Feminist Studies 12, no. 25 (April 1, 1997): 91–103.

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Haebich, Anna. “Murdering Stepmothers: The Trial and Execution of Martha Rendell.” Journal of Australian Studies 22, no. 59 (January 1, 1998): 66–81.

Harman, Kristyn. ‘“Murder will out”: Intimacy, Violence, and the Snow Family in Early Colonial New Zealand’, in Penelope Edmonds and Amanda Nettelbeck (eds.), Intimacies of Violence in the Settler Colony: Economies of Dispossession Around the Pacific Rim, Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies Series, Palgrave Macmillan, 2018, 159-177.

Haskins, Victoria. “‘Down in the Gully and Just Outside the Garden Walk’: White Women and the Sexual Abuse of Aboriginal Women on a Colonial Australian Frontier.” History Australia 10, no. 1 (2013): 11-34.

Hill, Richard. “The Call to Order: Families, Responsibility and Juvenile Crime Control.” Journal of Australian Studies 22, no. 59 (January 1, 1998): 101–14.

Hogan, Ashley. ““I Never Noticed She Was Dirty”: Fatherhood and the Death of Charlotte Duffy in Late-Nineteenth-Century Victoria.” Journal of Family History 24, no. 3 (1999): 305-16.

Horan, Susan. “More Sinned against Than Sinning? Prostitution in South Australia, 1836-1914.” In So Much Hard Work: Women and Prostitution in Australian History, edited by Kay Daniels, 87-126. Sydney: Fontana Books, 1984.

Hume, Lynne. “Witchcraft and the Law in Australia.” Journal of Church & State 37 (1995): 135-50.

Ireland, Haidee. “The Case of Agnes Jones: Tracing Aboriginal Presence in Sydney through Criminal Justice Records.” History Australia 10, no. 3 (2013): 236-51.

Kaladelfos, Amanda. ‘“Call All Male Offenders By Their Right Name”: Masculinity and the Age of Consent’. Melbourne Historical Journal, Special Issue No. 1 (2009): 1-19.

Kaladelfos, Amanda. ‘Murder in Gun Alley: Girls, Grime and Gumshoe History’. Journal of Australian Studies, vol. 34, issue 4 (2010): 471-484.

Kaladelfos, Amanda. ‘The “Condemned Criminals”: Sexual Violence, Race and Manliness in Colonial Australia.’ Women’s History Review, vol. 21, issue 5 (2012): 697-714.

Kaladelfos, Amanda. ‘The Dark Side of the Family: Paternal Child Homicide in Australia’. Journal of Australian Studies 37, no. 3 (2013): 333-348.

Kaladelfos, Amanda. “The Politics of Punishment: Rape and the Death Penalty in Colonial Australia, 1841–1901.” History Australia 9, no. 1 (2012): 155-75.

Kaladelfos, Andy, and Lisa Featherstone. ‘Race and Ethnicity in Sex Crimes Trials’. In Robert Mason ed. Legacies of Violence in Modern Australia. Berghahn Publishing, 2017, 217-232.

Kaladelfos, Andy, and Lisa Featherstone. ‘Sexual Assault by Teachers: Historical Legislative, Policy, and Prosecutorial Responses’. In Yorick Smaal, Andy Kaladelfos, and Mark Finnane eds. The Sexual Abuse of Children: Recognition and Redress. Clayton, Vic., Monash University Publishing, 2016, 20-34.

Kelly, Vince. Rugged Angel: The Amazing Career of Policewoman Lillian Armfield.  Sydney: Angus and Robertson, 1961.

Kimber, Julie. “’A Nuisance to the Community’: Policing the Vagrant Woman.” Journal of Australian Studies 34, no. 3 (2010): 275 – 93.

Lake, Marilyn. “The Trials of Ellen Kelly.” In Double Time: Women in Victoria, 150 Years, edited by Marilyn Lake and Farley Kelly, 86-96. Ringwood: Penguin Books, 1985.

Laster, Kathy. “Arbitrary Chivalry: Women and Capital Punishment in Victoria, 1842-1967.” In A Nation of Rogues: Crime, Law and Punishment in Colonial Australia, edited by David Philips and Susanne Davies, 166-86. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1994.

Laster, Kathy. “Frances Knorr: ‘She Killed Babies, Didn’t She?’.” In Double Time: Women in Victoria, 150 Years, edited by Marilyn Lake and Farley Kelly, 148-56. Ringwood: Penguin Books, 1985.

Laster, Kathy. “Infanticide: A Litmus Test for Feminist Criminological Theory.” Australia and New Zealand Journal of Criminology 22 (September 1989): 151-66.

Lindsey, Kiera. “‘So much recklessness’: Abduction in the Colony of New South Walest.” Australian Historical Studies 44, no. 3 (2013): 438-456.

Lindsey, Kiera. “‘So Much Recklessness’: Abduction in the Colony of New South Wales.” Australian Historical Studies 44, no. 3 (September 1, 2013): 438–56.

Macdonald, Charlotte. “Crime and Punishment in New Zealand, 1840-1913: A Gendered History.” New Zealand Journal of History 23, no. 1 (1989): 5-21.

MacDonald, Helen. “A Dissection in Reverse: Mary Mclauchlan, Hobart Town 1830.” Lilith: A Feminist History Journal, no. 13 (2004): 12-24.

McConnell, Ruth, and Steve Mullins. “‘We Had Both Been Drinking since Christmas,’ – Battered Wives and Dead Abusive Husbands in Early Colonial Rockhampton.” Journal of Australian Colonial History 5 (2004): 100-19.

McConville, Chris. “The Location of Melbourne’s Prostitutes, 1870-1920 “. Australian Historical Studies 19, no. 74 (1980): 86-97.

McCulloch, John E.S. “Baby-Farming and Benevolence in Brisbane, 1885–1915.” Hecate 36 (2010): 42-56.

McKewon, Elaine. The Scarlet Mile: A Social History of Prostitution in Kalgoorlie, 1894-2004.  Crawley: University of Western Australia Press, 2005.

Morris, John. “The Japanese and the Aborigines: An Overview of the Efforts to Stop the Prostitution of Coastal and Island Women.” Journal of Northern Territory History, no. 21 (2010): 15-36.

Nagy, Victoria M. and Alana Piper. “The health and medical needs of Victoria’s older female prisoners, 1860-1920,” Health & History 22, no. 1 (2020): 67-85.

Nelson, Elizabeth. “Civilian Men and Domestic Violence in the Aftermath of the First World War.” Journal of Australian Studies 27, no. 76 (2003): 97-108.

Nettelbeck, Amanda, and Robert Foster. “‘As Fine a Body of Men’: How the Canadian Mountie Brought Law and Order to the Memory of the Australian Frontier.” Journal of Australian Studies 36, no. 2 (June 1, 2012): 125–40.

Parker, Clare. “A Parliament’s Right to Choose Abortion Law Reform in South Australia.” History Australia 11, no. 2 (2014): 60-79.

Peers, Juliet. “’You Can Bloody Well Shoot’: The Case of Ethel Herringe.” In The Thing She Loves: Why Women Kill, edited by Kerry Greenwood, 55-72. St. Leonards: Allen & Unwin, 1996.

Pinto, Sarah, and Leigh Boucher. “Fighting for Legitimacy: Masculinity, Political Voice and Ned Kelly.” Journal of interdisciplinary gender studies 10, no. 1 (2006): 1-29.

Piper, Alana and Catrien Bijleveld, Susan Dennison and Jonathan de Bruin, “Female and male prisoners in Queensland 1880-1899: Re-entry, risk factors, recidivism,” Women’s Criminality: Patterns and Variations in Europe, 1600-1914, Marion van der Heijden and Marion Pluskota ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020.

Piper, Alana and Victoria Nagy, “Risk factors and pathways to imprisonment among incarcerated women in Victoria, 1860-1920,” Journal of Australian Studies 42, no. 3 (2018): 268-284.

Piper, Alana and Victoria Nagy, “Versatile offending: Criminal careers of female prisoners in Australia, 1860-1920,” Journal of Interdisciplinary History 48, no. 2 (2017): 187-210.

Piper, Alana, “‘A growing vice’: The Truth about Brisbane girls and drunkenness in the early twentieth century,” Journal of Australian Studies 34, no. 4 (2010): 485-497.

Piper, Alana, “‘A Menace and an Evil’: Fortune-telling in Australia, 1900-1918,” History Australia 11, no. 3 (2014): 53-73.

Piper, Alana, “‘I go out worse every time’: Connections and corruption in a female prison,” History Australia 9, no. 3 (2012): 129-150.

Piper, Alana, “‘I’ll have no man’: female families in Melbourne’s criminal subcultures, 1860–1920,” Journal of Australian Studies 39, no. 4 (2015): 444-460.

Piper, Alana, “‘I was a man of honour’: Masculinities and theft in early twentieth-century Western Australia,” Australian Historical Studies 51, no.3 (2020): 282-298.

Piper, Alana, “‘Woman’s special enemy’: Female Enmity in Criminal Discourse during the Long Nineteenth Century,” Journal of Social History 49, no. 3 (2016): 671-692.

Piper, Alana, “All the waters of Lethe: An experience of female alcoholism in federation Queensland,” Queensland Review 18, no. 1 (2011): 85-97.

Piper, Alana, “Book thieves: Theft and literary culture in nineteenth and twentieth-century Australia,” Cultural and Social History 14, no. 2 (2017): 257-273.

Piper, Alana, “Women’s work: The professionalisation and policing of fortune-telling in Australia,” Labour History 108 (2015): 1-16.

Piper, Alana, “Understanding economic abuse as domestic violence,” Gender violence in Australia: Historical Perspectives, Alana Piper and Ana Stevenson ed. (Melbourne: Monash University Press, 2019).

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