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Police

Allen, Judith. “Policing since 1880: Some Questions of Sex.” In Policing in Australia: Historical Perspectives, edited by Mark Finnane, 188-222. Kensington: New South Wales University Press, 1987.

Bentley, Mollie. Grandfather Was a Policeman: The Western Australian Police Force 1829-1889. Carlisle: Hesperian Press, 1993.

Choo, Christine, and Chris Owen. “Deafening Silences: Understanding Frontier Relations and the Discourse of Police Files through the Kimberley Police Records.” Studies in Western Australian History, no. 23 (2003): 129-56.

Conole, Peter. Policing the Western Third. (Perth: Western Australia Police, 2009.)

Dukova, Anastasia. To Preserve and Protect: Policing Colonial Brisbane. (Brisbane: UQP, 2020.)

Enders, Mike. “Introduction: Australian Policing in Context.” In Policing the Lucky Country, edited by Mike Enders and Benoît Dupont, 2-5. (Sydney: Hawkins Press, 2001).

Finnane, M., and J.  Myrtle. “An Exercise in Police Co-Operation? The Origins of the Conference of Australian Police Commissioners.” Australian Journal of Politics and History 57, no. 1 (2011): 1-16.

Finnane, Mark, and Fiona Paisley. “Police Violence and the Limits of Law on a Late Colonial Frontier: The Borroloola Case in 1930s Australia.” Law and History Review 28, no. 1 (2010): 141-71.

Finnane, Mark and Stephen Garton. “The Work of Policing: Social Relations and the Criminal Justice System in Queensland 1880-1914.” Labour History, no. 63 (1992): 43-64.

Finnane, Mark, and Jonathan Richards. “You’ll Get Nothing out of It? The Inquest, Police and Aboriginal Deaths in Colonial Queensland.” Australian Historical Studies 35, no. 123 (2004): 84-105.

Finnane, Mark. “No Longer a Workingmans Paradise? Australian Police Unions and Political Action in a Changing Industrial Environment.” Police Practice and Research 9, no. 2 (2008): 131-43.

Finnane, Mark. “Phillips’ Brief: The Third Degree.” Criminal Law Journal 41, no. 5 (2017): 295-97.

Finnane, Mark. Police and Government: Histories of Policing in Australia.  Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1994.

Finnane, Mark. “Police Rules and the Organisation of Policing in Queensland, 1905-1916.” Australia and New Zealand Journal of Criminology 22 (June 1989): 95-108.

Finnane, Mark. “Police Unions in Australia: A History of the Present.” Current Issues in Criminal Justice 12 (2000): 5-19.

Finnane, Mark. “The Politics of Police Powers: The Making of Police Offences Acts.” In Policing in Australia: Historical Perspectives, edited by Mark Finnane, 88-113. Kensington: New South Wales University Press, 1987.

Finnane, Mark. “Writing About Police in Australia.” In Policing in Australia: Historical Perspectives, edited by Mark Finnane, 1-14. Kensington: New South Wales University Press, 1987.

Haldane, Robert. The People’s Force: A History of the Victoria Police. (Carlton: Melbourne University Press, 1995).

Hogg, Russell, and Hilary Golder. “Policing Sydney in the Late Nineteenth Century.” In Policing in Australia: Historical Perspectives, edited by Mark Finnane, 59-73. (Kensington: New South Wales University Press, 1987).

Johnston, W. Ross. The Long Blue Line: A History of the Queensland Police.  (Brisbane: Boolarong Publications, 1992).

Kelly, Vince. Rugged Angel: The Amazing Career of Policewoman Lillian Armfield.  Sydney: Angus and Robertson, 1961.

McGregor, Lesley. “The Police Department 1859-1914.” In People, Places and Policies: Aspects of Queensland Government Administration 1859-1920, edited by Kay Cohen and Kenneth Wiltshire, 58-82. (St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 1995).

McQuilton, John. “Police in Rural Victoria: A Regional Example.” In Policing in Australia: Historical Perspectives, edited by Mark Finnane, 35-58. (Kensington: New South Wales University Press, 1987).

Nettelbeck, Amanda, and Robert Foster. “‘As Fine a Body of Men’: How the Canadian Mountie Brought Law and Order to the Memory of the Australian Frontier.” Journal of Australian Studies 36, no. 2 (June 1, 2012): 125–40.

Petrow, Stefan. “Creating an Orderly Society: The Hobart Municipal Police 1880-1898.” Labour History 75 (November 1998): 175-94.

Petrow, Stefan. “Military police, bushrangers and the struggle for order in Van Diemen’s Land 1803-1826.” law&history 1 (2014): 77-109.

Petrow, Stefan. “The English Model? Policing in Late Nineteenth-Century Tasmania.” In Crime and Empire, 1840-1940: Criminal Justice in Local and Global Context, edited by Graeme Dunstall Barry S. Godfrey, 121-34. Cullompton: Willan Publishing, 2005.

Prenzler, Tim. “Policewomen and Queensland.” Queensland Review 2, no. 2 (1995): 67-80.

Prenzler, Tim. “Women in Australian Policing: An Historical Overview.” Journal of Australian Studies 18, no. 42 (1994): 78-88.

Prenzler, Tim. “Women in Australian Policing: An Historical Overview.” Journal of Australian Studies 18, no. 42 (1994): 78-88.

Richards, Jonathan. “‘There Is No Truth Whatever as Regards Any Aboriginal Being Flogged by the Police’: Coen Police Camp, 1933, Cape York Peninsula.” In Land and Language in Cape York Peninsula and the Gulf Country, edited by Jean-Christophe Verstraete and Diane Hafner, 241-62. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2016.

Rowse, Tim. “The moral world of the native mounted police.” law&history 5 (2018): 1-23.

Sturma, Michael. “Police and Drunkards in Sydney, 1841-1851.” Australian Journal of Politics and History 27, no. 1 (1981): 48-56.

Sturma, Michael. “Policing the Criminal Frontier in Mid-Nineteenth Century Australia, Britain and America.” In Policing in Australia: Historical Perspectives, edited by Mark Finnane, 15-34. Kensington: New South Wales University Press, 1987.

Taylor, David. “’Melbourne, Middlesbrough and Morality: Policing Victorian ‘New Towns’ in the Old World and the New’.” Social History 31, no. 1 (2006): 15-38.

Tisdale, Julie. “Venereal Disease and the Policing of the Amateur in Melbourne During World War I.” Lilith: A Feminist History Journal, no. 9 (1996): 33-50.

Wilson, Dean, and Mark Finnane. “From Sleuths and Technicians? Changing Images of the Detective in Victoria.” In Police Detectives in History, 1750-1950, edited by Clive Emsley and Haia Shpayer-Makov, 135-56. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006.

Wilson, Dean. “’Well-Set-up Men’: Respectable Masculinity and Police Organizational Culture in Melbourne 1853-C.1920.” In A History of Police and Masculinities, 1700-2010, edited by David G. Barrie and Susan Broomhall, 163-80. London: Routledge, 2012.

Wilson, Dean. “Policing Poverty: Destitution and Police Work in Melbourne, 1880-1910.” Australian Historical Studies 36, no. 125 (2005): 97-112.

Wilson, Dean. “Traces and Transmissions: Techno-Scientific Symbolism in Early Twentieth-Century Policing.” In Crime and Empire, 1840-1940: Criminal Justice in Local and Global Context, edited by Graeme Dunstall Barry S. Godfrey, 106-20. (Cullompton: Willan Publishing, 2005).

Wilson, Dean. The Beat: Policing a Victorian City.  Melbourne: Circa, 2006.

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