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Violence

Aitken, Jo. “‘The Horrors of Matrimony among the Masses’: Feminist Representations of Wife Beating in England and Australia, 1870-1914.” Journal of Women’s History 19, no. 4 (2007): 107-31.

Allen, Judith A. Sex and Secrets: Crimes Involving Australian Women since 1880.  Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1990.

Allen, Judith. “The Invention of the Pathological Family: A Historical Study of Family Violence in N.S.W.”. In Family Violence in Australia, edited by Carol O’Donnell and Jan Craney, 1-27. Melbourne: Longman Cheshire, 1982.

Biber, Katherine. “Little Clues: Frances Glessner Lee’s Archives of Domestic Homicide.” law&history 6, no. 2 (2019): 46-82.

Bronitt, Simon, and Wendy Kukulies-Smith. “Crime, Punishment, Family Violence, and the Cloak of Legal Invisibility.” Journal of Australian Studies 37, no. 3 (September 1, 2013): 390–401.

Cannon, Michael. The Woman as Murderer: Five Who Paid with Their Lives.  Mornington: Today’s Australia Publishing Company, 1994.

Doyle, Sue. “The Pyjama Girl.” Journal of Australian Studies 24, no. 64 (2000): 34–41.

Evans, Raymond. “A Gun in the Oven: Masculinism and Gendered Violence.” In Gender Relations in Australia: Domination and Negotiation, edited by Kay Saunders and Raymond Evans, 197-218. Marrickville: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich Group, 1992.

Finnane, Mark, and Fiona Paisley. “Police Violence and the Limits of Law on a Late Colonial Frontier: The Borroloola Case in 1930s Australia.” Law and History Review 28, no. 1 (2010): 141-71.

Finnane, Mark, and Jonathan Richards. “Aboriginal Violence and State Response: Histories, Policies, Legacies in Queensland 1860-1940.” Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology 43, no. 2 (2010): 238-62.

Finnane, Mark. “Crimes of Violence, Crimes of Empire? .” In Crime and Empire, 1840-1940: Criminal Justice in Local and Global Context, edited by Graeme Dunstall Barry S. Godfrey, 43-56. Cullompton: Willan Publishing, 2005.

Finnane, Mark. “Gun control in a strong state: The legal regulation of firearms in Australia.” law&history 1 (2014): 56-76.

Finnane, Mark. “Guns and massacres: The politics of firearms control in Australia,” in Australian Violence: Crime, Criminal Justice and Beyond ed. Julie Stubbs and Stephen Tomsen (Sydney: The Federation Press, 2016).

Foster, Meg. “Murder for White Consumption? Jimmy Governor and the Bush Ballad.” In Archiving Settler Colonialism: Culture, Race, Space, edited by Yu-ting Huang and Rebecca Weaver-Hightower, 173-89. Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY: Routledge, 2018.

Foster, Meg. “The Forgotten War of 1900: Jimmy Governor and the Aboriginal People of Wollar.” Australian Historical Studies 50, no. 3 (2019): 1-16.

Genovese, Ann. “The Battered Body.” Australian Feminist Studies 12, no. 25 (April 1, 1997): 91–103.

Godfrey, Barry. “Counting and Accounting for the Decline in Non-Lethal Violence in England, Australia, and New Zealand, 1880-1920.” British Journal of Criminology 43, no. 2 (2003): 340-53.

Harman, Kristyn. “‘Murder will out’: Intimacy, Violence, and the Snow Family in Early Colonial New Zealand.” The Intimacies of Violence in Settler Colonial Economies: Everyday Encounters around the Pacific Rim, edited by Penelope Edmonds and Amanda Nettelbeck. Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies series. (forthcoming 2018)

Kaladelfos, Amanda. ‘Murder in Gun Alley: Girls, Grime and Gumshoe History’. Journal of Australian Studies, vol. 34, issue 4 (2010): 471-484.

Kaladelfos, Amanda. ‘The Dark Side of the Family: Paternal Child Homicide in Australia’. Journal of Australian Studies 37, no. 3 (2013): 333-348.

McConnell, Ruth, and Steve Mullins. “‘We Had Both Been Drinking since Christmas,’ – Battered Wives and Dead Abusive Husbands in Early Colonial Rockhampton.” Journal of Australian Colonial History 5 (2004): 100-19.

Morton, James, and Russell Robinson. Shotgun and Standover: The Story of the Painters and Dockers.  Sydney: Macmillan, 2010.

Morton, James, and Susanna Lobez. Dangerous to Know: An Australasian Crime Compendium Carlton: Victory Books, 2009.

Morton, James, and Susanna Lobez. Gangland Australia.  Melbourne University Press: Melbourne, 2007.

Morton, James, and Susanna Lobez. Gangland Melbourne.  Carlton: Melbourne University Publishing, 2011.

Morton, James, and Susanna Lobez. Gangland Queensland.  Carlton: Melbourne University Publishing, 2012.

Peers, Juliet. “’You Can Bloody Well Shoot’: The Case of Ethel Herringe.” In The Thing She Loves: Why Women Kill, edited by Kerry Greenwood, 55-72. St. Leonards: Allen & Unwin, 1996.

Piper, Alana and Ana Stevenson. ‘Introduction: Challenging Gender Violence’. Gender Violence in Australia: Historical Perspectives, edited by Alana Piper and Ana Stevenson. Melbourne: Monash University Publishing, 2019.

Piper, Alana, and Victoria Nagy. “Risk factors and pathways to imprisonment among incarcerated women in Victoria, 1860-1920.” Journal of Australian Studies (accepted for publication February 2018)

Piper, Alana, and Victoria Nagy. “Versatile offending: Criminal careers of female prisoners in Australia, 1860-1920.” Journal of Interdisciplinary History 48, no. 2 (2017): 187-210.

Piper, Alana. “‘I go out worse every time’: Connections and corruption in a female prison.” History Australia 9, no. 3 (2012): 129-150.

Satyanshu K. Mukherjee, Evelyn N. Jacobsen, John R. Walker. Source Book of Australian Criminal and Social Statistics 1804-1988.  Canberra: Australian Institute of Criminology, 1989.

Saunders, Kay. “The Study of Domestic Violence in Colonial Queensland: Sources and Problems.” Historical Studies 21, no. 82 (1984): 68-84.

Saunders, Kay. Deadly Australian Women.  Sydney: ABC Books; HarperCollins, 2013.

Sturma, Michael. Vice in a Vicious Society: Crime and Convicts in Mid-Nineteenth-Century New South Wales St. Lucia; New York: University of Queensland Press, 1983.

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

Theobald, Jacqui. “Feminist Oral History and the Victorian Domestic Violence Services Movement.” Australian Feminist Studies 28, no. 78 (2013): 364-74.

Thomas, J. E. “Crime and Society.” In A New History of Western Australia, edited by C. T. Stannage, 636-51. Nedlands: University of Western Australia Press, 1981.

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