Convict police and the enforcement of British order: Policing the rum economy in early New South Wales
Among the many peculiarities of early New South Wales was the absence of a police force to manage a population largely composed of convicted criminals. Instead, the early Governors were forced to employ trusted convicts and ex-convicts to act as watchmen and constables and police their fellows. This...
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2020
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The Australian and New Zealand journal of criminology
Year: 2020, Volume: 53, Issue: 2, Pages: 248-264 |
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