This book provides a comprehensive overview of capital punishment in the Australian colonies for the very first time. The author illuminates all aspects of the

This book examines how convicts played a key role in the development of capitalism in Australia and how their active resistance shaped both workplace relations

Jeremy Bentham and Australia is a collection of scholarship inspired by Bentham’s writings on Australia. These writings are available for the first time in au

Not just a method of crime control or individual punishment in Britain's African territories, the death penalty was an integral aspect of colonial networks of p

From 1965 until 1980, there was a virtual moratorium on executions for capital offenses in the United States. This was due primarily to protracted legal proceed