Crime and empire 1840-1940 : criminal justice in a local and global context / edited by Barry S. Godfrey, Graeme Dunstall.

Cullompton, Devon : Willan Publishing, 2005.

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Criminal justice, Administration of -- History -- 19th century.

Criminal justice, Administration of -- History -- 20th century.

Colonies -- Administration -- History.

Great Britain -- Colonies -- Administration -- History.

International law -- History.

Crime -- History -- Crosscultural studies.

Colonies -- Law and legislation -- History.

1. Crime and empire: introduction

2. The changes in policing and penal policy in nineteenth-century Europe

3. Explaining the history of punishment

4. Crimes of violence, crimes of empire?

5. Colonialism and the rule of law: the case of South Australia

6. Colonial history and theories of the present: some reflections upon penal history and theory

7. Crime, the legal archive and postcolonial histories

8. Traces and transmissions: techno-scientific symbolism in early twentieth-century policing

9. The English model? policing in late nineteenth-century Tasmania

10. The growth of crime and crime control in developing towns: Timaru and Crewe, 1850-1920

11. (Re)presenting scandal: Charles Reade's advocacy of professionalism within the English prison system

12.'Saving our unfortunate sisters? establishing the first separate prison for women in New Zealand

13. Maori police personnel and the rangatiratanga discourse

14. 'To make the precedent fit the crime': British legal responses to sati in early nineteenth-century India

15. 'Everyday life' in Boer women's testimonies of the concentration camps of the South African War, 1899-1902

16. Codification of the criminal law: the Australasian parliamentary experience.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

9781843921073

xii, 253 p. : ill.