Crime and empire 1840-1940
edited by Barry S. Godfrey and Graeme Dunstall.
- U.K. : Willan Pub., 2005.
- 253 p.
Table of Contents; Chapter 1. Crime and empire: introduction Chapter 2. The changes in policing and penal policy in nineteenth-century Europe Chapter 3. Explaining the history of punishment Chapter 4. Crimes of violence, crimes of empire? Chapter 5. Colonialism and the rule of law: the case of South Australia Chapter 6. Colonial history and theories of the present: some reflections upon penal history and theory Chapter 7. Crime, the legal archive and postcolonial histories Chapter 8. Trace and transmissions: techno-scientific symbolism in early twentieth-century policing Chapter 9. The English model? Policing in late nineteenth-century Tasmania Chapter 10. The growth of crime and crime control in developing towns: Timaru and Crewe, 1850-1920 Chapter 11. (Re)presenting scandal: Charles Reade's advocacy of professionalism within the English prison system Chapter 12. 'Saving our unfortunate sisters'? Establishing the first separate prison for women in New Zealand Chapter 13. Maori police personnel and the rangatiratanga discourse Chapter 14. 'To make the precedent fit the crime': British legal responses to sati in early nineteenth-century north India Chapter 15. 'Everyday life' in Boer women 's testimonies of the concentration camps of the South African War, 1899-1902 Chapter 16. Codification of the criminal law: the Australasian parliamentary experience