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Homicide

Adams, Simon. The Unforgiving Rope: Murder and Hanging on Australia’s Western Frontier. Crawley: University of Western Australia press, 2009.

Allen, Judith A. Sex and Secrets: Crimes Involving Australian Women since 1880.  Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1990.

Allen, Judith. “Octavius Beale Reconsidered: Infanticide, Babyfarming and Abortion in Nsw 1880-1939.” In What Rough Beast?: The State and Social Order in Australian History, edited by Sydney Labour History Group, 111-29. Sydney; London; Boston: Allen & Unwin, 1982.

Biber, Katherine. “Little Clues: Frances Glessner Lee’s Archives of Domestic Homicide.” law&history 6, no. 2 (2019): 46-82.

Cannon, Michael. The Woman as Murderer: Five Who Paid with Their Lives.  Mornington: Today’s Australia Publishing Company, 1994.

Doyle, Sue. “The Pyjama Girl.” Journal of Australian Studies 24, no. 64 (2000): 34–41.

Durnian, Lisa. ‘”Your Troubles Are Over, Mummy”: Prosecuting Children who Kill Violent Men’. Gender Violence in Australia: Historical Perspectives, edited by Alana Piper and Ana Stevenson. Melbourne: Monash University Publishing, 2019. 49-62.

Finnane, Mark, and Andy Kaladelfos. “Race and Justice in an Australian Court: Prosecuting Homicide in Western Australia, 1830-1954.” Australian Historical Studies 47, no. 3 (2016): 443-61.

Ford, Ruth. “‘The man-woman murderer’: sex fraud, sexual inversion and the unmentionable article in 1920s Australia.” Gender and History 12, no. 1 (2000): 158-196.

Foster, Meg. “Murder for White Consumption? Jimmy Governor and the Bush Ballad.” In Archiving Settler Colonialism: Culture, Race, Space, edited by Yu-ting Huang and Rebecca Weaver-Hightower, 173-89. Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY: Routledge, 2018.

Gardiner, Diane. “Bigamy, Theft and Murder: The Tale of Frederick Bailey Deeming.” Agora 42, no. 2 (2007): 20-23.

Goc, Nicola. Women, Infanticide and the Press 1822–1922: News Narratives from England and Australia.  Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate, 2013.

Haebich, Anna. “Murdering Stepmothers: The Trial and Execution of Martha Rendell.” Journal of Australian Studies 22, no. 59 (January 1, 1998): 66–81.

Harman, Kristyn. “‘Murder will out’: Intimacy, Violence, and the Snow Family in Early Colonial New Zealand.” The Intimacies of Violence in Settler Colonial Economies: Everyday Encounters around the Pacific Rim, edited by Penelope Edmonds and Amanda Nettelbeck. Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies series. (forthcoming 2018)

Hogan, Ashley. ““I Never Noticed She Was Dirty”: Fatherhood and the Death of Charlotte Duffy in Late-Nineteenth-Century Victoria.” Journal of Family History 24, no. 3 (1999): 305-16.

Kaladelfos, Amanda. ‘Murder in Gun Alley: Girls, Grime and Gumshoe History’. Journal of Australian Studies, vol. 34, issue 4 (2010): 471-484.

Kaladelfos, Amanda. ‘The Dark Side of the Family: Paternal Child Homicide in Australia’. Journal of Australian Studies 37, no. 3 (2013): 333-348.

Laster, Kathy. “Arbitrary Chivalry: Women and Capital Punishment in Victoria, 1842-1967.” In A Nation of Rogues: Crime, Law and Punishment in Colonial Australia, edited by David Philips and Susanne Davies, 166-86. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1994.

Laster, Kathy. “Frances Knorr: ‘She Killed Babies, Didn’t She?’.” In Double Time: Women in Victoria, 150 Years, edited by Marilyn Lake and Farley Kelly, 148-56. Ringwood: Penguin Books, 1985.

Laster, Kathy. “Infanticide: A Litmus Test for Feminist Criminological Theory.” Australia and New Zealand Journal of Criminology 22 (September 1989): 151-66.

McConnell, Ruth, and Steve Mullins. “‘We Had Both Been Drinking since Christmas,’ – Battered Wives and Dead Abusive Husbands in Early Colonial Rockhampton.” Journal of Australian Colonial History 5 (2004): 100-19.

Plater, David, and Sue Milne. “”Assuredly There Never Was Murder More Foul and More Unnatural”?: Poisoning, Women and Murder in 19th Century Australia.” Canterbury Law Review 25 (2019): 53-94.

Rychner, Georgina. “Murderess or Madwoman? Margaret Heffernan, Infanticide and Insanity in Colonial Victoria.” Lilith, no. 23 (2017): 91-104.

Swain, Shurlee, and Renate Howe. Single Mothers and Their Children: Disposal, Punishment and Survival in Australia. (Cambridge; Oakleigh: Cambridge University Press, 1995.)

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