Nancy Cushing

A History of Crime in Australia (eBook, ePUB)

Australian Underworlds

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book provides a lively and accessible account of Australia's most prominent crimes and criminals of the nineteenth and twentieth century, and offers an informative background for those seeking to understand crimes committed today.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 246
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Dezember 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000822311
• Artikelnr.: 66654982

Autorenporträt

Nancy Cushing is Associate Professor of History at the University of Newcastle, Australia. She is an environmental historian interested in human-other animal relations, most recently co editing Animals Count (Routledge 2018) with Jodi Frawley. This book is based on her undergraduate course Australian Underworlds which she has taught as an on-campus and massive open online course to over a thousand students since 2017.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. Law in Aboriginal Societies 2. Australian Criminal Justice Systems 3. The Criminal Class Theory and Its Enemies 4. Aboriginal People and Settler Colonial Law 5. The World of Ned Kelly 6. Identifying Underworlds 7. Race, Class and Sexual Violence 8. Husband Poisoners and Baby Killers: Women Criminals 9. Popular Crimes 10. The Long History of Australian Gangs 11. Innocent Criminals 12. Researching the History of Crime in Australia