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Investigating the lives of historical offenders in Australia

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Fortune-telling

Hume, Lynne. “Witchcraft and the Law in Australia.” Journal of Church & State 37 (1995): 135-50.

Patrick, Jeremy. Faith or Fraud: Fortune-telling, Spirituality and the Law. British Columbia: University of British Columbia, 2020.

Piper, Alana. “‘A Menace and an Evil’: Fortune-telling in Australia, 1900-1918,” History Australia 11, no. 3 (2014): 53-73.

Piper, Alana. “The Scales of Justice,” Criminal Law Journal 38, no. 6 (2014): 384-386.

Piper, Alana. “Women’s work: The professionalisation and policing of fortune-telling in Australia,” Labour History 108 (2015): 1-16.

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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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