Women's Criminalisation and Offending in Australia and New Zealand

ISBN-13: 9781032140872 / Twarda / 2023 / 240 str.

Opis

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.

Spis treści

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: Wāhine Toa and the Korowai: Female Warriors and the Patch

Carl Bradley

Chapter 12: The Lived Experiences of Māori Women

Te Atawhai Nayda Te Rangi and Bonnie Te Ao Mihi Maihi 

O autorze

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 wellbeing needs of staff and incarcerated people in the corrections systems, and criminology pedagogy.

 

Georgina Rychner is a Senior Analyst at Victoria’s Parliamentary Budget Office. She completed her PhD in historical studies at Monash University in 2020, specializing 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.