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Brawley, Sean. “Racial Terrorism: Recalibrating the Chinese Experience in Colonial Australia.” In Crime over Time: Temporal Perspectives on Crime and Punishment in Australia, edited by Robyn Lincoln and Shirleene Robinson, 83-110. (Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars, 2010.)

Evans, Raymond. “Night of Broken Glass: The Anatomy of an Anti-Chinese Riot.” In Brisbane in 1888: The Historical Perspective, edited by Rod Fisher, 47-60. Brisbane: Brisbane History Group, 1988.

Finnane, Mark, and Andy Kaladelfos. “British Migrants, Criminality and Deportation: Shaping the Australian Post-War Approach.” Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History 45, no. 2 (2017): 339-63.

Finnane, Mark, and Andy Kaladelfos. “Australia’s Long History of Immigration, Policing and the Criminal Law.” In Crimmigration in Australia: Law, Politics, and Society, edited by Peter Billings, 19-37. Singapore: Springer, 2019.

Finnane, Mark. “Controlling the “Alien” in Mid-Twentieth Century Australia: The Origins and Fate of a Policing Role.” Policing and Society 19, no. 4 (2009): 442-67.

Frances, Raelene. ‘Sex Trafficking, Labour Migration, and the State’. Gender Violence in Australia: Historical Perspectives, edited by Alana Piper and Ana Stevenson. Melbourne: Monash University Publishing, 2019. 114-130.

Gray, Stephen. “’Far Too Little Flogging’: Chinese and the Criminal Justice System in the Northern Territory.” Journal of Northern Territory History, no. 22 (2011): 1-33.

Kaladelfos, Andy, and Lisa Featherstone. ‘Race and Ethnicity in Sex Crimes Trials’. In Robert Mason ed. Legacies of Violence in Modern Australia. Berghahn Publishing, 2017, 217-232.

Kaladelfos, Andy, and Mark Finnane. “Immigration and Criminality: Australia’s Post‐War Inquiries.” Australian Journal of Politics & History 64, no. 1 (2018): 48-64.

Mar, Tracey Banivanua. “Making sovereignty: Race, crime and madness in Queensland, 1870-1883.” law&history 1 (2014): 110-136.

McClaughlin, Trevor. “‘I Was Nowhere Else’: Casualities of Colonisation in Eastern Australia in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century.” In Irish Women in Colonial Australia, edited by Trevor McClaughlin, 142-62. St Leonards: Allen & Unwin, 1998.

Morris, John. “The Japanese and the Aborigines: An Overview of the Efforts to Stop the Prostitution of Coastal and Island Women.” Journal of Northern Territory History, no. 21 (2010): 15-36.

O’Farrell, Patrick. The Irish in Australia.  Kensington: New South Wales University Press, 1993.

Petrow, Stefan. “‘Convict-Phobia’: Combating Vandiemonian Convicts in 1850s and 1860s Victoria.” Journal of Australian Colonial History 14 (2012): 260-71.

Rhook, Nadia H. “The chief Chinese interpreter Charles Hodges: Mapping the aurality of race and governance in colonial Melbourne.” Postcolonial Studies 18, no. 1 (2015): 1-18.

Ryan, Jan. “‘She Lives with a Chinaman’: Orient-Ing ‘White’ Women in the Courts of Law.” Journal of Australian Studies, no. 60 (1999): 149-59.

Ryan, Lyndall, and Margie Ripper. “Women, Abortion and the State.” Journal of Australian Studies 17, no. 37 (June 1, 1993): 72–87.

Sissons, D. C. S. “Karayuki-San: Japanese Prostitutes in Australia, 1887-1916, I.” Historical Studies 17, no. 68 (1977): 323-41.

Sissons, D. C. S. “Karayuki-San: Japanese Prostitutes in Australia, 1887-1916, II.” Historical Studies 17, no. 69 (1977): 474-88.

Thomas, J. E. “Crime and Society.” In A New History of Western Australia, edited by C. T. Stannage, 636-51. Nedlands: University of Western Australia Press, 1981.

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