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  • 'Us Girls Won't Put One Another Away': relations among Melbourne's prostitute pickpockets, 1860-1920

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    Piper, Alana Jayne
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    Piper, Alana J.
    Year published
    2018
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    Larceny from the person, or pickpocketing, was the most common form of indictable crime committed by female offenders in turn-of-the-century Melbourne. It was an offence particularly likely to appear within the criminal careers of recidivist female offenders. Female pickpocketing, however, was notoriously difficult to prosecute. The usual differences found in trial outcomes for men and women were exacerbated by the specific contexts in which such robberies occurred, that is in the context of solicitation or sex work. This not only meant victims were reluctant to prosecute, but that women’s offending often took place within ...
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    Larceny from the person, or pickpocketing, was the most common form of indictable crime committed by female offenders in turn-of-the-century Melbourne. It was an offence particularly likely to appear within the criminal careers of recidivist female offenders. Female pickpocketing, however, was notoriously difficult to prosecute. The usual differences found in trial outcomes for men and women were exacerbated by the specific contexts in which such robberies occurred, that is in the context of solicitation or sex work. This not only meant victims were reluctant to prosecute, but that women’s offending often took place within criminal subcultures that fostered interpersonal relationships between women that served to support them throughout the commission of the crime and during the trial process.
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    Journal Title
    Women's History Review
    DOI
    https://doi.org/10.1080/09612025.2017.1321613
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    © 2017 Taylor & Francis (Routledge). This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Women's History Review on 04 May 2017, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/10.1080/09612025.2017.1321613
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    This publication has been entered into Griffith Research Online as an Advanced Online Version.
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    Australian History (excl. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander History)
    Cultural Studies
    Historical Studies
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    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/340487
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