Criminal Law and Colonial Subject
Series: Studies in Australian History;
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Product details:
- Edition number New ed
- Publisher Cambridge University Press
- Date of Publication 18 December 2003
- ISBN 9780521522946
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages316 pages
- Size 246x189x17 mm
- Weight 570 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 16 b/w illus. 31 tables 0
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Short description:
This book looks at how the practice of law developed in early New South Wales.
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1810-1830 was a crucial period in the development of New South Wales, when the legal foundations of a free-settler and emancipist society were laid. This book explores the relationship of a colonial people with English law and looks at the practice of law among the ordinary population. Paula Jane Byrne traces the boundaries between property, sexuality and violence, drawing from court records, dispositions and proceedings. She asks: what did ordinary people understand by guilt, suspicion, evidence and the term 'offence'? The book reconstructs the legal process with great detail and richness and evokes the everyday lives of people in the colony. It focuses on the different valuing of males and females and analyses the complex gender relations of the early colony. This book innovatively ties recent ideas on convict society and Australian colonial women's history to the legal, economic and social history of early New South Wales.
'Those who seek historical treatment of crime will surely welcome this book, both because it illuminates a little known area of history and because it is based on primary source material.' Nancy Wolfe, The Criminologist
Table of Contents:
Author's note; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; List of figures; List of tables; 1. Introduction; Part I. Law and the Person: 2. Labour; 3. The house; 4. The body; Part II. Offence in the Wilderness: 5. The creation of bushranging; Part III. Suspicious Characters: Police and People: 6. The structure and style of policing; 7. Popular use of law; Part IV. The Court Room: 8. Deciding what was good and bad; 9. Conclusion; Appendix; Bibliography; Index.
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