Criminal Characters

Investigating the lives of historical offenders in Australia

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Reading List

Below you can find lists of books, book chapters and journal articles on the history of crime and criminal justice in Australia. You can access the full list of titles, or examine the lists for different sub-themes below.

Abortion

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

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