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dc.contributor.authorPiper, Alana Jayne
dc.date.accessioned2019-05-29T12:36:54Z
dc.date.available2019-05-29T12:36:54Z
dc.date.issued2018
dc.identifier.issn0022-4529
dc.identifier.doi10.1093/jsh/shx147
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/380613
dc.description.abstractBurglary and pickpocketing were the two most prevalent forms of male and female offending, respectively, in the flourishing colonial capital of Melbourne during the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Using court records and newspaper accounts, this article compares the prosecution patterns and public perceptions of male burglars and female pickpockets. Both offences were associated in the Anglophone world with membership of the criminal classes and in the colonial context with concerns about a remnant convict populace. Moreover, both male burglary and female pickpocketing occurred in intimate contexts that threatened the possibility of sexual violence or uncontrolled female sexuality. Yet although both crimes were the subjects of community concerns, the conviction rates for burglary and pickpocketing differed dramatically. This article examines the ways in which the gendered contexts of burglary and pickpocketing—in relation to constructions of victims as much as defendants—exacerbated the usual differences found in trial outcomes for men and women, as well as other factors that served to place men at far greater risk of conviction. It is suggested that a close reading of the victimization narratives of these two offences complicates traditional perspectives on the policing of male and female sexualities in the criminal justice system.
dc.description.peerreviewedYes
dc.languageEnglish
dc.publisherOxford University Press
dc.publisher.placeUnited States
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom760
dc.relation.ispartofpageto783
dc.relation.ispartofissue4
dc.relation.ispartofjournalJournal of Social History
dc.relation.ispartofvolume51
dc.subject.fieldofresearchHistorical studies
dc.subject.fieldofresearchHistorical studies not elsewhere classified
dc.subject.fieldofresearchOther history, heritage and archaeology
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode4303
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode430399
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode4399
dc.titleVictimization narratives and courtroom sexual politics: Prosecuting male Burglars and female pickpockets in Melbourne, 1860-1921
dc.typeJournal article
dc.type.descriptionC1 - Articles
dc.type.codeC - Journal Articles
dc.description.versionAccepted Manuscript (AM)
gro.facultyArts, Education & Law Group, School of Criminology and Criminal Justice
gro.rights.copyright© 2018 Oxford University Press. This is a pre-copy-editing, author-produced PDF of an article accepted for publication in British Journal of Criminology following peer review. The definitive publisher-authenticated version Victimization Narratives and Courtroom Sexual Politics: Prosecuting Male Burglars and Female Pickpockets in Melbourne, 1860–1921, Journal of Social History, Volume 51, Issue 4, 1 June 2018, Pages 760–783 is available online at: https://doi.org/10.1093/jsh/shx147.
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gro.griffith.authorPiper, Alana J.


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