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Historical Encyclopedia of WA

Convicts, Crimes, Prisons & Punishment

(See also Shipping, Voyage & Exploration)


Social Policy in Western Australia, Charlie Fox (ed.), 25, 2007


Articles

  • The Distribution of an Offensive Population: Classification and Convicts in Fremantle Prison, 1850-1865
    Peter Millett
  • The Rise and Fall of Rehabilitation in the Western Australian Prison System, 1966-1991
    Norman Megahey
  • A Means of Punishment: The Mount Eliza Depot, 1878-1905
    Wade Matthews
  • ‘Inefficients at best and criminal at worst’:Juvenile Delinquency in Western Australia during the Interwar Years
    Rosemary Kerr
  • Baby Farming in Western Australia: The Case Against Alice Mitchell, 1907
    Penelope Hetherington
  • The Children’s Protection Society:Child Protection in Western Australia, 1906-1930
    Towards a Medical-Welfare Model
    Leanne Rowe

Book or other reviews

  • ‘Escape! Fremantle to Freedom’ – A Touring Exhibition reviewed when on display at Fremantle Prison
    Ian Chambers
  • Michelle McKeough, Rescues, Rogues & Rough Seas: 150 Years of the Water Police in Western AustraliaPeter Millett
  • Kate Auty, Black Glass: Australian Courts of Native Affairs 1936-54
    Neville Green
  • Michal Bosworth, Convict Fremantle: A Place of Promise and Punishment
    Peter Millett


Building a Colony: the Convict Legacy, Jacqui Sherriff & Anne Brake (eds), 24, 2006

Articles

  • Journeying the Punishment: Convicts and their Punitive Journeys to Western Australia 1850-1868
    Peter Millett
  • The Voyage of the Racehorse 1865
    William Heseltine
  • The Control and Coercion of Convicts
    Mathew Trinca
  • Alfred Daniel Letch: A White-Collar Convict
    Sandra Potter
  • Convictism in Greenough
    Simon Stevens
  • A Class of Utterly Useless Men: Convict Lunatics in Western Australia
    Margaret McPherson
  • The Convict Places of Western Australia
    Martin Gibbs
  • Writing About Convicts in Western Australia
    Bob Reece
  • Tracing Your Western Australian Convict
    Beverley Iffla
Book or other review

  • Andrew Gill, Convict assignment in Western Australia: The Parkhurst ‘Apprentices’ 1842-1851
    Penelope Hetherington


History and Native Title, Christine Choo & Shawn Hollbach (eds), 23, 2003

Article

  • Deafening Silences: Understanding Frontier Relations and the Discourse of Police Files through the Kimberley Police Records
    Christine Choo & Chris Owen
Book or other review

  • Robert Drewe, The Shark Net: memories and murder
    Ron Davidson


Wordal, Jill Milroy, John Host & Tom Stannage (eds), 22, 2001

Article

  • Wadjemup: Holiday Paradise or Prison Hell-Hole
    Blaze Kwaymullina


Women and Citizenship: Suffrage Centenary, Patricia Crawford & Judy Skene (eds), 19, 1999

Book or other reviews

  • Andrew Gill, Forced Labour For The West: Parkhurst Convicts ‘Apprenticed’ in Western Australia 1842-1851
    Peter Millett
  • Deborah Oxley, Convict Maids: The Forced Migration of Women in Australia
    Dianne Snowden
  • Joy Damousi, Depraved and Disorderly: Female Convicts, Sexuality and Gender in Colonial Australia
    Dianne Snowden
  • Kay Daniels, Convict Women
    Dianne Snowden
  • Andrew Gill, Forced Labour for the West: Parkhurst Convicts ‘Apprenticed’ in Western Australia 1842-1851
    Michael Sturma


Historical Traces, Jenny Gregory (ed.), 17, 1997

Article

  • Controlling Places: A History of Spatial Intent in Western Australian Convictism
    Mathew Trinca


Asian Orientations, Jan Gothard (ed.), 16, 1995

Article

  • Jumna Khan
    Charlie Fox


Historical Refractions, Charlie Fox (ed.), 14, 1993

Articles

  • An Unnatural Offence: Sodomy in Western Australia from 1880 to 1900
    Jill Bavin-Mizzi
  • Punishment, Prisons and Reform: Incarceration in Western Australia in the Nineteenth Century
    Louise J. Bavin


Private Enterprise, Government and Society, Frank Broeze (ed.), 13, 1992

Book or other review

  • Douglas E. Darbyshire, In Time for Lunch
    Jan Gothard


Western Australia Between the Wars 1919-1939, Jenny Gregory (ed.), 11, 1990.

Article

  • ‘Bookies, Punters and Parasites’: Off-course betting, conflict and consensus in Western Australia between the Wars
    Charlie Fox


European-Aboriginal Relations in Western Australian History, Bob Reece & Tom Stannage (eds), 8, 1984

Article

  • ‘Blood on the Saddle’: The Forrest River Massacres, 1926
    Brian Fitzgerald
Book or other review

  • Prisoners in their Own Country: Aborigines in Western Australian Historical Writing
    Bob Reece


Women in Western Australian History, Patricia Crawford (ed.), 7, 1983

Book or other review

  • C. T. Stannage (ed.), A New History of Western Australia
    Beverley Kingston


Fred Alexander: A Tribute, Brian de Garis (ed.), 6, 1988

Book or other review

  • J. E. Thomas and Alex Stewart, Imprisonment in Western Australia: Evolution, Theory and Practice
    Michael Sturma


Convictism in Western Australia, C. T. Stannage, 4, 1981

Articles

  • Why Convicts I: an Economic Analysis of Colonial Attitudes to the Introduction of Convicts
    Pamela Statham
  • Why Convicts II: the Decision to Introduce Convicts to Swan River
    Pamela Statham
  • Who Were the Convicts?: a Statistical Analysis of the Convicts Arriving in Western Australia in 1850/51, 1861/62, and 1866/68
    Sandra Taylor
  • Petitions, Memorials and Politics in Western Australia, 1829-1849
    Andrew Gill
  • Probationary Prisoner 5270: Thomas Bushell
    Margaret Brown
  • The Census of 1861: an Intriguing Incident in Western Australian History
    Ian Vanden Driesen
  • The Fenians are Coming, the Fenians are Coming
    G. C. Bolton
  • Two Historians and Convictism: W. B. Kimberly and J. S. Battye
    Jennie Carter
  • Convictism in Western Australia
    Margaret Brown
Book or other reviews

  • J. E. Thomas and Alex Stewart, Imprisonment in Western Australia: Evolution, Theory and Practice
    Lynne Stevenson
  • Who Were the Pensioners?
    G. C. Bolton


Early Western Australia, 3, 1978

Article

  • Crime and Criminal Records in Western Australia 1830-1855
    Judith Fall


Studies in Western Australian History, 1, 1977

Article

  • Aborigines, Settlers and Police in the Kimberleys 1887-1905
    Andrew Gill
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