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Media and Crime

Baird, Barbara. “’The Incompetent, Barbarous Old Lady Round the Corner’: The Image of the Backyard Abortionist in Pro-Abortion Politics.” Hecate 22, no. 1 (1996): 7-26.

Coleman, J. D. “Incorrigible offenders: Media representations of female habitual criminals in the late Victorian and Edwardian press.” Media History 22, no. 2 (2016): 143-158.

Cooke, Simon. “’A ‘Dirty Little Secret’? The State, the Press, and Popular Knowledge of Suicide in Victoria, 1840s-1920s.” Australian Historical Studies 31, no. 115 (2000): 304-24.

Davison, Graeme, and David Dunstan. “’This Moral Pandemonium’ Images of Low Life.” In The Outcasts of Melbourne: Essays in Social History, edited by Graeme Davison, David Dunstan and Chris McConville, 29-57. Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 1985.

Dux, Monica. “‘Discharging the Truth’: Venereal Disease, the Amateur, and the Print Media, 1942-1945.” Lilith: A Feminist History Journal, no. 10 (2001): 75-91.

Goc, Nicola. Women, Infanticide and the Press 1822–1922: News Narratives from England and Australia.  Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate, 2013.

Mayne, Alan. The Imagined Slum: Newspaper Representation in Three Cities, 1870-1914.  Leicester, London and New York: Leicester University Press, 1993.

McConville, Chris. “From ‘Criminal Class’ to ‘Underworld’.” In The Outcasts of Melbourne: Essays in Social History, edited by Graeme Davison, David Dunstan and Chris McConville, 69-90. (Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 1985).

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

Piper, Alana, “‘A growing vice’: The Truth about Brisbane girls and drunkenness in the early twentieth century,” Journal of Australian Studies 34, no. 4 (2010): 485-497.

Weaver, Rachel. “Reflecting the Detectives: Crime Fiction and the New Journalism in Late-Nineteenth Century Australia.” Australian Literary Studies 22, no. 1 (2005): 61-72.

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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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