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Women's Criminalisation and Offending in Australia and New Zealand offers new research and analysis of women's offending and criminalisation in Australia and New Zealand from British settlement through to the late-twentieth/early twenty-first century.
Sommario
Introduction
Victoria M. Nagy and Georgina Rychner
Chapter 1: Free Women and short hair: Cropping, convictism, and Reform in Van Diemen's Land
Nicholas Dean Brodie, Kristyn Evelyn Harman, and Victoria M. Nagy
Chapter 2: A 'Very Lamentable Case': Indigenous Women as defendants in the upper courts of Western Australia, 1830-1890
Caroline Ingram
Chapter 3: Understanding Criminality in context: Melbourne's female underworld, 1860-1920
Alana Piper
Chapter 4: Women's Intra-Gender Homicide in Victoria
Victoria M. Nagy
Chapter 5: Complicating the 'unfeminine': Agency and insanity in female convictions for murder, Victoria 1880-1916
Georgina Rychner
Chapter 6: "The Whole Community is Poisoned Against Her": Perceptions and Motives of Female Poisoners in Late Nineteenth-Century Australia.
Mitchell Naughton
Chapter 7: 'Female Masqueraders' and Vagrants: Gender Diversity in the Criminal Justice System in Early Twentieth Century Victoria
Adrien McCrory
Chapter 8: Media Representations of Criminalized Women in 1950s Aotearoa New Zealand
Fairleigh Evelyn Gilmour and Chris Brickell
Chapter 9: Selective gendered regime of Deportation: the historical deportation of Women during the White Australia Policy Era
Marinella Marmo and Evan Smith
Chapter 10:
Herstories of Alcohol and other drug use and Imprisonment: Understanding Women's experiences of the Victorian correctional landscape, 1860-1920
Andrew Groves
Chapter 11: W¿hine Toa and the Korowai: Female Warriors and the Patch
Carl Bradley
Chapter 12:
Te Atawhai Nayda Te Rangi and Bonnie Te Ao Mihi Maihi
Info autore
Victoria M. Nagy is Senior Lecturer in Criminology at the University of Tasmania. She completed her PhD in women's studies at Monash University in 2012, with a specialisation in socio-legal responses to women's poisoning offences in the UK during the nineteenth century. She has published on women's offending in Victoria, sexual violence victimisation of women and men, and academic misconduct. Her current research focuses are on Tasmanian incarceration (historic and contemporary), the well-being needs of staff and incarcerated people in the corrections systems, and criminology pedagogy.
Georgina Rychner completed her PhD in historical studies at Monash University in 2020, specialising in the history of interpersonal crime, narratives of mental health, and the administration of capital punishment in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Victoria. Georgina has taught criminology and history at Deakin University and the University of Tasmania.
