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Exploring the life course and intergenerational impact of convict transportation
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Godfrey, B and Inwood, Kris and Maxwell-Stewart, HJ, Exploring the life course and intergenerational impact of convict transportation, Intergenerational Continuity of Criminal and Antisocial Behaviour, Routledge, VI Eichelsheim, SGA van de Weijer (ed), New York, pp. 61-75. ISBN 9781138103375 (2018) [Research Book Chapter]
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DOI: doi:10.4324/9781315102788
Abstract
In recent years, historians interested in the mechanisms by which outcomes for one generation might influence the life-courses of children and grandchildren have started to employ data sourced from criminal justice records. One reason for this is that they include data for women as well as men (Godfrey et al., 2007; Inwood and Maxwell-Stewart, 2016; Meredith and Oxley, 2015). Police, court and prison recording systems also have the advantage of noting socio-economic variables such as occupation, literacy and height, as well as criminal offending. In this chapter, we describe early results stemming from analysis of data from two databases: Founders and Survivors and the Digital Panopticon. Between 1803 and 1853 over 72,000 convicts were transported to the British penal colony of Van Diemen's Land, later renamed Tasmania. Using the rich resources of the Tasmanian Archive and Heritage Office, volunteers have collected, collated, digitised and transcribed much of the information about these unwilling migrants. The Founders and Survivors project which created this database was a partnership among historians, volunteer genealogists, demographers and population health researchers recording the most complete descriptions of convicts when they arrived in Van Diemen's Land, whilst they served their sentence, when they were released under conditions and their lives when they were finally freed.
Item Details
| Item Type: | Research Book Chapter |
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| Keywords: | History of Crime, life course offending, intergenerational transmission |
| Research Division: | History and Archaeology |
| Research Group: | Historical Studies |
| Research Field: | Australian History (excl. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander History) |
| Objective Division: | Expanding Knowledge |
| Objective Group: | Expanding Knowledge |
| Objective Field: | Expanding Knowledge through Studies of Human Society |
| UTAS Author: | Maxwell-Stewart, HJ (Professor Hamish Maxwell-Stewart) |
| ID Code: | 131550 |
| Year Published: | 2018 |
| Funding Support: | Australian Research Council (DP180103952) |
| Deposited By: | Office of the School of Humanities |
| Deposited On: | 2019-03-22 |
| Last Modified: | 2019-05-01 |
| Downloads: | 0 |
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