Criminal Characters

Investigating the lives of historical offenders in Australia

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    • Understanding crime records
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    • Prisons and Punishment
      • Map of Australian Prisons
    • Crime in Popular Culture
      • Fiction
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      • Personal Accounts
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      • Offender Match-Up Exercise
      • Parole Board Scenario
      • Contexts of Crime Timeline
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      • Alcohol and Drugs
      • Babyfarming
      • Bigamy
      • Bushranging
      • Convicts
      • Courts and the Law
      • Desertion
      • Family Violence
      • Fortune-telling
      • Gender and Crime
      • Homicide
      • Homosexuality
      • Immigration
      • Indigenous Australians
      • Infanticide
      • Insanity
      • Juveniles and Crime
      • Media and Crime
      • Police
      • Popular Culture and Crime
      • Prisons, Punishment and Institutionalisation
      • Prostitution
      • Sexual Violence
      • Suicide
      • Theft
      • Theories of Crime
      • Vagrancy
      • Violence
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Resources

A variety of resources are presented here to assist students, teachers, researchers or any one simply curious to learn more about the history of crime in Australian society and culture.

Understanding Crime Records gives an overview of the types of historical records about crime that survive in Australia today, including those being transcribed by this project.

Offender Histories offers into the lives of different offenders who passed through Victoria’s prison system and form part of the Criminal Characters data.

Crime in Popular Culture offers timelines showing how crime has been imagined and written about in Australian fiction, film, music and personal accounts.

Prisons and Punishment presents an overview of the history of criminal punishments in Australia, and a chronological map of prison sites throughout Australia.

Reading List provides a reading list of sources about the history of crime in Australia, sub-divided into various themes.

Teaching Resources provides instructors with three different innovative, hands-on learning activities for teaching students about crime and criminal justice in Australia.

Links is a selection of websites, podcasts and other multimedia content relevant to the history of Australian crime.

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This research project is supported by the University of Technology Sydney through its Chancellors Postdoctoral Research Fellowship scheme.

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