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0000-0002-9369-5862
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University of Technology Sydney
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Historical Studies | Australian History (excl. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander History) | Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander History | Criminal Law and Procedure | Architectural Heritage and Conservation
Understanding Australia's Past | Defence and Security Policy | Criminal Justice |
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 04-05-2017
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date: 18-08-2022
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 2014
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-10-2015
Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
Date: 13-08-2015
DOI: 10.1093/JSH/SHV049
Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
Date: 2018
DOI: 10.1093/JSH/SHX147
Publisher: Australian and New Zealand Society of the History of Medicine
Date: 2020
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 17-10-2023
Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
Date: 31-07-2014
DOI: 10.1093/HWJ/DBT017
Publisher: De Gruyter
Date: 21-09-2020
Publisher: PubPub
Date: 02-2023
Publisher: MIT Press - Journals
Date: 08-2017
DOI: 10.1162/JINH_A_01125
Abstract: The use of longitudinal data from the criminal records of a s le of 6,042 female prisoners in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Victoria reveals limitations in the traditional method of examining criminality within specific offense categories. Investigations devoted exclusively to particular categories of women’s offenses potentially obscures the extent to which women resorted to multiple forms of offending. Such versatile activity challenges conceptions of women as predominantly petty offenders by suggesting that some women were arrested for minor offenses because of their engagement in more serious crimes and their participation in criminal sub-cultures.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 2012
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 03-08-2020
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 27-07-2017
Abstract: From Ned Kelly to Waltzing Matilda, tales of thievery dominate Australia's colonial history. Yet while theft represents one of the most pervasive forms of criminal activity, it remains an under-researched area in Australian historical scholarship. This article draws on detailed inter-jurisdictional research from Victoria and Western Australia to elaborate trends in the prosecution, conviction and sentencing of theft in colonial Australia. In particular, we use these patterns to explore courtroom attitudes towards different forms of theft by situating such statistics within the context of contemporary commentaries. We examine the way responses to theft and the protection of property were affected by colonial conditions, and consider the influence of a variety of factors on the outcomes of theft trials.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 12-2010
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-07-2020
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 03-2017
DOI: 10.1111/AJPH.12327
Publisher: Queensland University of Technology
Date: 03-2023
DOI: 10.5204/IJCJSD.2744
Abstract: Crime history was a pioneer in the digital arena, democratising access to the past by engaging large public and academic audiences with primary datasets online. This article traces the evolution of digital crime history from 2003 to 2021 in the United Kingdom and Australia. It charts a shift from catering to a passive audience towards projects that actively engage public audiences through crowdsourced transcriptions, interactive data visualisations and other aural, visual and multimedia forms. It has never been easier to access these nations’ criminal pasts online, but we must pause to reflect on what the aims of public engagement are. What kinds of digital public pedagogy do we want to build, and how can they be critical, reflective and widely representative? We conclude by considering the challenges to this endeavour, including what roles academics and commercial gatekeepers might play, the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and the uneven geographies of digitisation within the Southern Hemisphere.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-07-2020
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 13-09-2022
Publisher: Equinox Publishing
Date: 2011
DOI: 10.1375/QR.18.1.85
Abstract: Whether it is treated as an issue for consternation or celebration, a propensity for drunkenness has long been represented as an essential trait of the Australian character. The image of the Australian drinker has remained distinctly masculine, with drinking canonised as a male pastime by Russel Ward's The Australian Legend (Ward 1958: 2). While Australian histories of inebriation have recognised the gendered nature of alcohol use, they have assumed implicitly that because drinking typically has been considered a masculine prerogative, the primary significance of liquor consumption to gender studies lies in the role it played in the construction of masculine identity. The assumption has been that because women's drinking was not conducted on the same scale as men's, the excessive drinking indulged in by a minority of females is unimportant to larger understandings of femininity. This has inhibited investigation of female drunkenness, the responses it provoked and the critical expression of power relations constituted by these reactions.
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Date: 2015
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 03-07-2018
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 05-2018
Abstract: Historical data pose a variety of problems to those who seek statistically based understandings of the past. Quantitative historical analysis has been limited by researcher’s reliance on rigid statistics collected by in iduals or agencies, or else by researcher access to small s les of raw data. Even digital technologies by themselves have not been enough to overcome the challenges of working with manuscript sources and aligning dis-aggregated data. However, by coupling the facilities enabled by the web with the enthusiasm of the public for explorations of the past, history has started to make the same strides towards big data evident in other fields. While the use of citizens to crowdsource research data was first pioneered within the sciences, a number of projects have similarly begun to draw on the help of citizen historians. This article explores the particular ex le of the Prosecution Project, which since 2014 has been using crowdsourced volunteers on a research collaboration to build a large-scale relational database of criminal prosecutions throughout Australia from the early 1800s to 1960s. The article outlines the opportunities and challenges faced by projects seeking to use web technologies to access, store and re-use historical data in an environment that increasingly enables creative collaborations between researchers and other users of social and historical data.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date: 30-01-2020
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 22-08-2016
DOI: 10.1017/S0738248016000316
Abstract: The Prosecution Project prosecutionproject.griffith.edu.au/ is a large-scale digital project that aims to provide a new way of exploring the context and impact of changes in the criminal trial during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It does so from an elementary platform: the digitization of the court calendars of criminal trials in the higher courts in the six main Australian jurisdictions over time periods as long as 130 years. The objective is to address questions of the criminal justice process centered on prosecution, from arrest, committal, and indictment, to verdict, sentence, and beyond. In a field of historical research that is more often characterized by the richness of discursive analysis, the Prosecution Project's comparative data sets are designed to offer a new understanding of quantitative context over long periods of time. The challenge of building the data platform is, however, considerable, requiring significant planning, collaboration and investment by a large number of researchers, working with relevant archive repositories, and, in this case, assisted by the engagement of an interested community lying outside the regular academy. This article describes the background to the project, its development as a collaborative digital initiative, and its technical and organizational requirements and possibilities, before we explore briefly some of the research outcomes that this project makes possible.
Publisher: Queensland University of Technology
Date: 27-02-2019
Abstract: This paper examines imprisonment data from Victoria between 1860 and 1920 to gather insights into the variations in incidence of women being convicted by rural versus urban courts, including close focus on the difference in types of offences being committed in urban and rural locations. This paper also details women’s mobility between both communities as well as change in their offending profiles based on their geographic locations. Our findings suggest that while the authorities were broadly most concerned with removing disorderly and vagrant women from both urban and rural streets, rural offending had its own characteristics that differentiate it from urban offending. Therefore, this demonstrates that when examining female offending, geographic location of an offender and offence must be taken into consideration.
Publisher: Equinox Publishing
Date: 06-2016
DOI: 10.1017/QRE.2016.17
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 18-02-2023
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-01-2017
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 11-10-2016
Start Date: 2021
End Date: 12-2024
Amount: $264,435.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
View Funded ActivityStart Date: 10-2013
End Date: 09-2018
Amount: $2,073,424.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
View Funded ActivityStart Date: 10-2019
End Date: 03-2021
Amount: $420,000.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
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