Prisoners discharged from Victorian prisons 1870-1879

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Finnane, Mark; Maxwell-Stewart, Hamish; Inwood, Kris, 2021, "Prisoners discharged from Victorian prisons 1870-1879", https://doi.org/10.26193/XGL1PN, ADA Dataverse, V1
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Dataset of prisoners discharged from Victorian prisons as published in Victorian Police Gazette, 1870-1879. Data includes name, offence, sentence, dates of trial and discharged, trial location, prisoner descriptions and characteristics including age, height and place of birth. The data was originally transcribed for the ARC funded project Corn Stalks and New Chums, Crime and Nutritional Status in Settler Australia, DP140102231 and has subsequently been curated by the Prosecution Project. (2021-02-10)
Subject Arts and Humanities; Law; Social Sciences
Keyword crime, prisoners, Victoria, colonial Australian history
Related Publication 2021, B. Godfrey and H. Maxwell-Stewart, ‘London Convicts, Transportation and Life Course Offending’, in M. Finnane (ed.), Bloomsbury Global History of Crime and Punishment Vol 5, (Bloomsbury, London in press). 2018, B. Godfrey, K. Inwood and H. Maxwell-Stewart, ‘Exploring the Life Course and Intergenerational Impact of Convict Transportation’, V. Eichelsheim and S. van de Weijer (eds) Intergenerational Continuity of Criminal or Antisocial Behaviour (London, Routledge): 61-75. 2014, R. Kippen, and H. Maxwell-Stewart, ‘”What is a man that is a bolter to do? I would steal the Governor’s axe rather than starve”: Old lags and recidivism in the Tasmanian penal colony’, in James Campbell and Vivien Miller (eds: Transnational Penal Cultures (London: Routledge, 2014): 165–183. 2020, K. Inwood, R. Kippen, H. Maxwell-Stewart and R. Steckel, ‘The Short and the Tall: Comparing Stature and Socio-Economic Status for Male Prison and Military Populations’, Social Science History, 44, 3: 463-84. 2015, H. Maxwell-Stewart, K. Inwood. K. and J. Stankovich, ‘The Prison and the Colonial Family’, History of the Family, 20, 2, 231-48 2015, K. Inwood, H. Maxwell-Stewart, D. Oxley. and J. Stankovich, ‘Growing Incomes,Growing People in Nineteenth-Century Tasmania’, Australian Economic History Review, 55, 2: 187-211. 2015, H. Maxwell-Stewart, K. Inwood. and M. Cracknell, ‘Height, Crime and Colonial History’, Law, Crime and History, 5, 1: 25-42.
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