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Theft

Barber, Ross. “Armed Robbery in Nineteenth Century Queensland – the Wells Case “. Queensland Heritage 2, no. 9 (1973): 9-14.

Chesser, Lucy. “‘When Two Loving Hearts Beat as One’: Same‐Sex Marriage, Subjectivity and Self‐Representation in the Australian Case of Marion‐Bill‐Edwards, 1906–1916.” Women’s History Review 17, no. 5 (2008): 721-42.

Elliot, Jane. “What Price Respectability? Another Look at Theft in New South Wales, 1788-1815.” Australian Journal of Legal History, no. 1 (1995): 167-97.

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

Kelen, Christopher. “Carrying a Swag: An Art of Theft.” Meanjin 58, no. 4 (1999): 142-51.

Morton, James, and Russell Robinson. Shotgun and Standover: The Story of the Painters and Dockers.  Sydney: Macmillan, 2010.

Morton, James, and Susanna Lobez. Dangerous to Know: An Australasian Crime Compendium Carlton: Victory Books, 2009.

Morton, James, and Susanna Lobez. Gangland Australia.  Melbourne University Press: Melbourne, 2007.

Morton, James, and Susanna Lobez. Gangland Melbourne.  Carlton: Melbourne University Publishing, 2011.

Morton, James, and Susanna Lobez. Gangland Queensland.  Carlton: Melbourne University Publishing, 2012.

Morton, James. Gangland Robbers.  Melbourne: Victory Books, 2016.

Perkins, John, and Jack Thompson. “Cattle Theft, Primitive Capital Accumulation and Pastoral Expansion in Early New South Wales, 1800-1850.” Australian Historical Studies 111 (1998): 289-302.

Piper, Alana, and Lisa Durnian. “Theft on trial: Prosecution, conviction and sentencing patterns in colonial Victoria and Western Australia,” Australian & New Zealand Journal of Criminology 50, no. 1 (2017): 5-22.

Piper, Alana, and Victoria Nagy. “Risk factors and pathways to imprisonment among incarcerated women in Victoria, 1860-1920.” Journal of Australian Studies (accepted for publication February 2018)

Piper, Alana, and Victoria Nagy. “Versatile offending: Criminal careers of female prisoners in Australia, 1860-1920.” Journal of Interdisciplinary History 48, no. 2 (2017): 187-210.

Piper, Alana. “‘I go out worse every time’: Connections and corruption in a female prison.” History Australia 9, no. 3 (2012): 129-150.

Piper, Alana. “‘Us girls won’t put one another away’: Relations among Melbourne’s prostitute pickpockets, 1860-1920,” Women’s History Review 27, no. 2 (2018): 247-265.

Piper, Alana. “Book thieves: Theft and literary culture in nineteenth and twentieth-century Australia,” Cultural and Social History 14, no. 2 (2017): 257-273.

Piper, Alana. “To judge a thief: How the background of thieves became central to dispensing justice, Western Australia, 1921-1951,” Law & History 4, no. 1 (2017): 113-144.

Piper, Alana. “Victimization narratives and courtroom sexual politics: Prosecuting male burglars and female pickpockets in Melbourne, 1860-1921,” Journal of Social History 51, no. 4 (2018), 760-783.

Satyanshu K. Mukherjee, Evelyn N. Jacobsen, John R. Walker. Source Book of Australian Criminal and Social Statistics 1804-1988.  Canberra: Australian Institute of Criminology, 1989.

Seal, Graham. The Outlaw Legend: A Cultural Tradition in Britain, America and Australia.  Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996.

Sturma, Michael. Vice in a Vicious Society: Crime and Convicts in Mid-Nineteenth-Century New South Wales St. Lucia; New York: University of Queensland Press, 1983.

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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