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Women, old age and imprisonment in Victoria, Australia 1860-1920
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.
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Publication title
Women and Criminal JusticeVolume
30Pagination
155-171ISSN
0897-4454Department/School
School of Social SciencesPublisher
RoutledgePlace of publication
United StatesRights statement
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/10.1080/08974454.2019.1631941Repository Status
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