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Juveniles and Crime

Barber, Ross. “The Criminal Law Amendment Act of 1891 and the ‘Age of Consent’ Issue in Queensland.” Australian & New Zealand Journal of Criminology 10 (1977): 95-11.

Bellanta, Melissa. “The Larrikin Girl.” Journal of Australian Studies 34, no. 4 (2010): 499-512.

Bellanta, Melissa. Larrikins: A History.  St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 2012.

Birch, Tony. “‘These Children Have Been Born in an Abyss’: Slum Photography in a Melbourne Suburb.” Australian Historical Studies 35, no. 123 (2004): 1-15.

Blewer, Robyn. “Making kiddies at home in court: Supporting child witnesses in twentieth century Australian courtrooms.” law&history 4 (2017): 62-87.

Bosworth, Mary. “Child Welfare and the Law: ‘Dependent’, ‘Neglected’ and ‘Delinquent’ Children in Western Australia, 1907-1990.” In Sexuality and Gender in History: Selected Essays, edited by Penelope Hetherington and Philippa Maddern, 255-65. Perth: Optima Press, 1993.

Featherstone, Lisa. “”Children in a Terrible State”: Understandings of Trauma and Child Sexual Assault in 1970s and 1980s Australia.” Journal of Australian Studies 42, no. 2 (2018): 164-76.

Finch, Lynette. “On the Streets: Working Class Youth Culture in the Nineteenth Century.” In Youth Subcultures : Theory, History and the Australian Experience, edited by Rob White, 75-79. Hobart: National Clearinghouse for Youth Studies, 1993.

Grant, Elizabeth. “The Incarceration of Australian Aboriginal Women and Children.” In Silent System: Forgotten Australians and the Institutionalisation of Women and Children, edited by Paul Ashton and Jacqueline Z. Wilson, 43-58. North Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2014.

Hetherington, Penelope. “Australian Colonial Law and the Construction of Childhood: The Example of Western Australia, 1829-1907.” In Sex, Power and Justice: Historical Perspectives on Law in Australia, edited by Diane Kirkby, 118-32. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995.

Hill, Richard. “The Call to Order: Families, Responsibility and Juvenile Crime Control.” Journal of Australian Studies 22, no. 59 (January 1, 1998): 101–14.

Jaggs, Donella. Neglected and Criminal: Foundations of Child Welfare Legislation in Victoria.  Melbourne: Philip Institute of Technology Centre for Youth and Community Studies, 1986.

Kaladelfos, Andy. ‘Uncovering a Hidden Offence: Social and Legal Histories of Familial Sexual Abuse’. Gender Violence in Australia: Historical Perspectives, edited by Alana Piper and Ana Stevenson. Melbourne: Monash University Publishing, 2019. 63-77.

Kippen, Rebecca, and Janet McCalman. “Parental Loss in Young Convicts Transported to Van Diemen’s Land (Tasmania), 1841–53.” The History of the Family 23, no. 4 (2018): 656-78.

Krieken, Robert van. Children and the State: Social Control and the Formation of Australian Child Welfare.  North Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 1992.

Morgan, George. “Curfew, Children, Class and Colonialism.” In Outrageous! Moral Panics in Australia, edited by Scott Poynting and George Morgan, 11-19. Hobart: ACYS Publishing, 2007.

Morgan, George. “The Bulletin and the Larrikin: Moral Panic in Late Nineteenth Century Sydney.” Media International Australia 85 (November 1997): 17-23.

Ramsland, John. Children of the Back Lanes: Destitute and Neglected Children in Colonial New South Wales.  Kensington: New South Wales University Press, 1986.

Reekie, Gail, and Paul Wilson. “Criminal Children: Childhood and the Law since 1865.” In Issues in Tropical and Subtropical Australian Childhood, edited by L. Finch, 76-85. Brisbane: University of Queensland Press, 1994.

Robinson, Shirleene. “‘Full of Passive Resistance?’ The Employment of Female State Children in Queensland, 1865-1911.” Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society 90, no. 2 (2004): 175-83.

Robinson, Shirleene. “Race and Reformation: Treatment of Children in Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century Australia.” In Crime over Time: Temporal Perspectives on Crime and Punishment in Australia, edited by Robyn Lincoln and Shirleene Robinson, 61-81. (Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars, 2010.)

Scrivener, Gladys. “Parental Imposition or Police Coercion? The Role of Parents and Police in Committals to the Industrial Schools in New South Wales, 1867-1905.” Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society 86, no. 1 (2000): 23-38.

Smaal, Yorick, Andy Kaladelfos and Mark Finnane, ed. The Sexual Abuse of Children: Recognition and Redress (Melbourne: Monash University Publishing, 2016).

Smaal, Yorick. ““An Imbecility of Body as Well as Mind”: Common Law and the Sexual (in)Capacity of Boys.” Criminal Law Journal 36, no. 4 (2012): 249-51.

Smaal, Yorick. “Historical perspectives on child sexual abuse, part 1.” History Compass 11, no. 9 (2013): 702-714.

Smaal, Yorick. “Historical perspectives on child sexual abuse, part 2.” History Compass 11, no. 9 (2013): 715-726.

Swain, Shurlee. ‘Gender-Based Violence in Out-of-Home Care’. Gender Violence in Australia: Historical Perspectives, edited by Alana Piper and Ana Stevenson. Melbourne: Monash University Publishing, 2019. 131-144.

Swain, Shurlee. “Confronting Cruelty: Writing a History of the Detection and Treatment of Child Abuse “. Victorian Historical Journal 71, no. 1 (2000): 7-18.

Twomey, Christina. “Gender, Welfare and the Colonial State: Victoria’s 1864 Neglected and Criminal Children’s Act.” Labour History, no. 73 (1997): 169-86.

Wilson, Gail Reekie and Paul. “Criminal Children: Childhood and the Law since 1865.” In Issues in Tropical and Subtropical Australian Childhood, edited by L. Finch, 76-85. (Brisbane: University of Queensland Press, 1994).

Zajac, Rachel, Nina Westera, and Andy Kaladelfos. “A Historical Comparison of Australian Lawyers’ Strategies for Cross-Examining Child Sexual Abuse Complainants.” Child Abuse & Neglect 72 (2017): 236-46.

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