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Theories of Crime

Bacchi, Carol. “Evolution, Eugenics and Women: The Impact of Scientific Theories on Attitudes Towards Women, 1870-1920.” In Women, Class and History: Feminist Perspectives on Australia 1788-1978, edited by Elizabeth Windschuttle, 132-56. Melbourne: Fontana Books, 1980.

Evans, Caroline and Parry, Naomi. “Vessels of Progressivism? Tasmanian State Girls and Eugenics, 1900-1940.” Australian Historical Studies 32, no. 117 (2001): 322 – 33.

Finnane, Mark. “Norval Morris (1923-2004).” Current Issues in Criminal Justice 15, no. 3 (2004): 267-71.

Finnane, Mark. “Promoting the Theory and Practice of Criminology: The Australian and New Zealand Society of Criminology and Its Founding Moment.” Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology 41, no. 2 (2008): 199-215.

Finnane, Mark. “Sir John Barry and the Melbourne Dept of Criminology: Some Other Foundations of Australian Criminology.” Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology 31 (1998): 69-81.

Finnane, Mark. “The Abc of Criminology: Anita Muhl, J. V. Barry, Norval Morris and the Making of a Discipline in Australia.” British Journal of Criminology 46, no. 3 (2006): 399-422.

Finnane, Mark. “The Origins of Criminology in Australia.” Australian & New Zealand Journal of Criminology 45, no. 2 (2012): 157-78.

Morris, Norval. The Habitual Criminal.  London: Longmans, Green, 1951.

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. “‘Woman’s special enemy’: Female Enmity in Criminal Discourse during the Long Nineteenth Century,” Journal of Social History 49, no. 3 (2016): 671-692.

Thearle, M. John. “The Rise and Fall of Phrenology in Australia.” Austalian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry 27 (1993): 518-25.

Wilson, Emily. Prevention Is Better Than Cure: Eugenics in Queensland 1900-1950.  North Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2010.

Wyndham, Diana. Eugenics in Australia: Striving for National Fitness.  London: Galton Institute, 2003.

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