Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP140102231

Funding Activity

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http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/API/grants/DP140102231

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Cornstalks and new chums: crime and nutritional status in settler Australia. The project will use records for 200,000 Australian-born and migrant prisoners released from Tasmanian and Victorian gaols between 1853 and 1924 to probe links between childhood well-being and the propensity to re-offend. It will explore the extent to which childhood nutrition (inferred from adult height), the timing and place of birth, and adult occupation can explain migration advantages, the impact of large cities like Melbourne on child health, and the circumstances that gave rise to recidivism? This project will also explore changes in the composition of offenders over time and the extent to which different penal systems helped offenders to ‘go straight’.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 2014

End Date: 12-2017

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $229,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Historical Studies | Migration | Australian History (excl. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander History) | Causes and Prevention of Crime

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Understanding Australia's Past | Crime Prevention |

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