Introduction
Essay: Crime History for Criminologists
Victoria Nagy
1. Law in Aboriginal Societies
Essay: Indigenous Law and the Intrusion of the West
Tyson Yunkaporta and Michael Bryden
Primary Source: Wundanyuka kulu Jujuju
Yanyuwa Families
2. Australian Criminal Justice Systems
Essay: From military tribunals to trial by jury
Rachel Franks
Primary Source: Prisoners for Trial, Adelaide, 1846
3. The Criminal Class Theory and its Enemies
Essay: British and Irish convicts and the idea of a criminal class
Hamish Maxwell Stewart
Primary Source: Indents of Female Convicts for the ship Lloyds,1845
4. Aboriginal People and Settler Colonial Law
Essay: Entangled in the colonial justice system
Laurie Allen
Primary Source: "Proclamation to the Aborigines", c. 1828-30
5. The World of Ned Kelly
Essay: The other bushrangers
Meg Foster
Primary Source: Jerilderie Letter, 1880, excerpt
6. Identifying Underworlds
Essay: Underworld figures? Describing vagrants
Catharine Coleborne
Primary Source: "From the Police Gazette", 1901
7. Race, Class and Sexual Violence
Essay: Sexual violence, racism, and the death penalty
Andy Kaladelfos
Primary Source: Opposing Capital Punishment, the Bulletin, 1889
8. Husband Poisoners and Baby Killers: Women Criminals
Essay: The ordinary crimes of female offenders
Alana Piper
Primary Source: "Victoria Gaol" by Janet Dibben, 1904
9. Popular Crimes
Essay: "Unnatural" and unpopular crimes
Yorick Smaal
Primary Source: The "Pyjama Girl Conundrum", 1944
10. The Long History of Australian Gangs
Essay: What ever happened to the larrikin pushes?
Melissa Bellanta
Primary Source: Kate Leigh Prison Record, 1915
11. Innocent Criminals
Essay: The Media vs Lindy Chamberlain
Michelle Arrow
Primary Source: Azaria Chamberlain’s Matinée Jacket, 1986
12. Researching the History of Crime in Australia
Essay: Using digital archives of crimes and criminals
Michael Kilmister