Persistent Identifier
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doi:10.26193/ZFAHYI |
Publication Date
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2021-02-22 |
Title
| Prisoners discharged from Tasmanian prisons 1865-1874 |
Author
| Finnane, Mark (Griffith University) - ORCID: 0000-0003-3776-8091
Maxwell-Stewart, Hamish (University of New England) - ORCID: 0000-0001-7336-0953
Inwood, Kris (University of Guelph) - ORCID: 0000-0002-3533-7047 |
Point of Contact
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Finnane, Mark (Griffith University) |
Description
| Prisoners discharged from Tasmanian Prisons, 1865-1874, data accessed from Tasmanian Police Gazette. Data includes name, offence, sentence, trial date and place, date of discharge from prison, prisoner descriptions including height, age, birthplace, occupation. 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. (2021-02-22) |
Subject
| Arts and Humanities; Law; Social Sciences |
Keyword
| crime
prisoners
Tasmania
Australian colonial 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. |
Language
| English |
Contributor
| Project Leader : Finnane, Mark
Researcher : Maxwell-Stewart, Hamish
Researcher : Inwood, Kris |
Funding Information
| Australian Research Council: DP140102231
Australian Research Council: FL130100050 |
Deposit Date
| 2021-02-22 |
Time Period
| Start Date: 1865-01-01 ; End Date: 1874-12-31 |
Data Type
| text |
Data Source
| Tasmania Police Gazette 1865-1874 |
Characteristic of Sources
| The data is drawn from tables of 'Prisoners discharged' published regularly in the police gazette and including name, offence, trial date, sentence, and some personal attributes including sex, age, height, birthplace |
Documentation and Access to Sources
| The Tasmania Police Gazette has been digitised and is available for searching on public access through the Tasmanian Archives (https://stors.tas.gov.au/POL709-1) |