Punishment in Australian Society

Download or read book Punishment in Australian Society written by Mark Finnane and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1997 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The convict origins of European settlement in Australia have long attracted the attention of novelists and historians. But what effect have these origins--and Australian society's preoccupation with them-- had on later institutions and modes of punishment? This book explores the question through a study of imprisonment and other forms of punishment in Australia since European settlement. It examines the social, cultural, political, and historiographical aspects of this important subject, and shows how punishment has changed and points to possible changes in the future.