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Women, old age and imprisonment in Victoria, Australia 1860-1920
Citation
Nagy, VM, Women, old age and imprisonment in Victoria, Australia 1860-1920, Women and Criminal Justice, 30 pp. 155-171. ISSN 0897-4454 (2020) [Refereed Article]
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Copyright 2019 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC. This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis Group in Women & Criminal Justice on 30/06/2019, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/08974454.2019.1631941
DOI: doi:10.1080/08974454.2019.1631941
Abstract
Older and elderly women predominantly appear in criminological literature as victims of crime. However, a not insignificant portion of those imprisoned, both past and present, were women aged more than 50 years. Even so, research into older and elderly imprisoned women is lacking, in Australia and around the world. Historical prisoner records offer a possibility for beginning to rectify the lack of knowledge about this cohort. Using the Central Register of Female Prisoners from Victoria across a six-decade period from 1860 to 1920 the historical contextualization of older women as prisoners can begin and this article presents the findings of the analysis of the 652 prison records of older women. As this article argues, feminist historical criminology offers an opportunity to shine light on those women who have been made invisible in historical records.
Item Details
| Item Type: | Refereed Article |
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| Keywords: | 19th century, Australia, female offenders, imprisonment, quantitative analysis, Victoria |
| Research Division: | Human Society |
| Research Group: | Criminology |
| Research Field: | Criminology not elsewhere classified |
| Objective Division: | Law, Politics and Community Services |
| Objective Group: | Justice and the law |
| Objective Field: | Criminal justice |
| UTAS Author: | Nagy, VM (Dr Vicky Nagy) |
| ID Code: | 133402 |
| Year Published: | 2020 |
| Deposited By: | Sociology and Criminology |
| Deposited On: | 2019-06-26 |
| Last Modified: | 2021-04-06 |
| Downloads: | 2 View Download Statistics |
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