Transportation, Post-Penal Identity and the Life Course
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Transportation, Post-Penal Identity and the Life Course

The Continued Control of Pauper-Emancipists

  1. 225 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
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Transportation, Post-Penal Identity and the Life Course

The Continued Control of Pauper-Emancipists

About this book

Transportation, Post-Penal Identity and the Life Course explores the life-courses of convicts who, after being transported to Van Diemen's Land, now Tasmania, and released from servitude, died in pauper establishments.

Presenting new case studies that look at the whole lives of former convicts dying in poverty to understand the long-term effects of the convict transportation system, Watkins facilitates an exploration of a broader view of the charitable institutions and its connections with the penal system. Delving into the path dependency and the criminalization of poverty the author uses criminal justice records, civil records, and newspapers for life-course analysis, along with colonial statistical returns and correspondence of officials to contextualize those life-courses. Exploring the Vandemonian charitable system within its post-penal identity and socio-economic context, this book looks at the social mobility of pauper emancipists to disrupt the enduring belief that all convicts who were transported to Australia were 'better-off' and that Australia was a 'working man's paradise' in the context of a re-emerging glorification of empire.

An interdisciplinary work exploring historical documentation and using criminological methodologies to uncover the lives of working-class people, this is insightful reading for researchers interested in the histories of charitable and criminal justice institutions, working class lives, life-course methodology, and criminalization.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Transportation, Post-Penal Identity and the Life Course
  3. Endorsements
  4. EMERALD ADVANCES IN HISTORICAL CRIMINOLOGY
  5. Transportation, Post-Penal Identity and the Life Course: The Continued Control of Pauper-Emancipists
  6. Copyright Page
  7. Dedication
  8. Contents
  9. List of Figures and Tables
  10. List of Case Studies
  11. About the Author
  12. Acknowledgment
  13. 1. Introduction
  14. 2. Crime and Poverty: A Long-standing Link
  15. 3. Method and Methodology
  16. 4. The Development of the Charitable and Welfare System
  17. 5. Crime and Punishment
  18. 6. Social Mobility
  19. 7. Family Life
  20. 8. Health, Disability, and Death
  21. 9. Conclusion
  22. Appendix 1: Employment Details
  23. Appendix 2: Select Case Studies
  24. References
  25. Index