Convicts and the colonies : a study of penal transportation from Great Britain and Ireland to Australia and other parts of the British Empire / A. G. L. Shaw.

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Melbourne : Melbourne University Press, 1978.

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1630

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Penal colonies -- Australia -- History.

Penology -- History -- Australia.

Contents:

1. Crime and transportation before the American revolution

2. The beginning of transportation to Australia

3. Early years in New South Wales

4. Governor Macquarie

5. The voyage

6. Controversy in England, 1810-1830

7. Who were the convicts? - Great Britain

8. Who were the convicts? - Ireland

9. Increasing severity

10. Prisons without bars

11. Deterrence and economy, 1826-1837

12. New projects in penology, 1837-1843

13. Break-down in Van Diemen's Land

14. Earl Grey's exiles

15. The end of transportation.

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Includes bibliographical references (p.379-390).

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399 p. : ill. ; 22 cm