Imperial Crime and Punishment

Emma D. Watkins is Associate Professor in Criminology at the University of Birmingham, UK.Eleanor Bland is Associate Professor and Programme Lead for Criminology at Oxford Brookes University, UK.

• Foreword; Barry Godfrey Introduction; Emma D. Watkins and Eleanor Bland Section 1. Institutions and Punishment Chapter 1. Pauper-Emancipists: Poverty, Criminalisation and Control; Emma D. Watkins Chapter 2. Mary Carpenter: The Transportation of Victorian Ideology and Juvenile Reform to Colonial India during the Nineteenth Century, Comparison and Contradictions; Tahaney Alghrani Chapter 3. Challenging Colonial Myths with Archival Datasets: Cockatoo Island Prison, 1839-69; Katherine Roscoe Section 2. Policing and Enforcement Chapter 4. Capital, Settler Colonialism, and Police Violence In Imperial Queensland; Paul Bleakley Chapter 5. Agents of Colonial Rule: Policing Practices in Western Australia and Queensland, and their Contemporary Legacies, c.1864-1914; Eleanor Bland Chapter 6. Protectors and Predators: 19th Century Indigenous Bhil Policing in Company India; Nishant Gokhale Section 3. (Un)Free Mobilities Chapter 7. Colonial Australia and Criminal Deportation: Inter-Colonial Free Migrant Transportation; Victoria Nagy and Kristyn Harman Chapter 8. Imperial Farbrekhers: Jewish Men and Crime in Tsarist Russia and Progressive New York City; Alex Tepperman Reflection; David Churchill

This fascinating collection directly addresses the urgent need to understand crime and its control within historical and global contexts. Engaging with migration, settlement, race, policy transfer and more, its chapters reveal how the patterns and practices of crime, policing and punishment were – and are -frequently interwoven with the wider historical forces of imperialism and colonialism. This book resonates with many profound contemporary issues and deserves a wide audience amongst all who care about the future of criminal justice and social justice, as well as their pasts.