Life courses, crime and global south migrants: Intercolonial transportation in the Australian historical context

Victoria M. Nagy, Alana Piper and Kristyn Harman

Journal of Criminal Justice, 2025, vol. 98, issue C

Abstract: Australia's settlement history is mired in the British tradition of deporting unwanted individuals for the purposes of punishment. Although initially convicts were transported to New South Wales (NSW), soon other colonies were established to accept the over 162,000 people transported from Britain and other parts of the British Empire. Overcrowded prisons meant that deportation from the British Isles was the best perceived option for crime control at the time. While abundant scholarship exists on those deported from Britain to the colonies, there has been limited research on those free migrants or colonial-born who were sentenced from the British colonies to inter-colonial transportation.

Keywords: Convict transportation; Migrants; Australia; Global south; Developmental and life course criminology (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jcrimjus.2025.102429

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