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The English Model? Policing in Late Nineteenth Century Tasmania

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posted on 2023-05-22, 11:13 authored by Stefan PetrowStefan Petrow
In the late nineteenth century Tasmania was the only Australian colony to retain a decentralised system of policing based on the English model and here I want to examine why that system was adopted, how it worked in practice and why centralisation was introduced in 1899. The connecting theme of the paper is therefore the tension between centralised and decentralised forms of policing.

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Publication title

in Crime and Empire 1840-1940: Criminal Justice in Local and Global Context

Editors

B.S. Godfrey and G Dunstall

Pagination

121-34

ISBN

1843921073

Department/School

School of Humanities

Publisher

Willan Publishing

Place of publication

Cullompton

Extent

16

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Copyright © 2005 Willan Publishing Ltd

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  • Restricted

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Understanding Australia’s past

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