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  • The origins of criminology in Australia

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    Finnane, Mark
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    Finnane, Mark J.
    Year published
    2012
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    Abstract
    Is there a distinctive Australian criminology? Was there a criminology before the discipline? Was the formation of the discipline in Australia shaped by the historical contexts of colonial settlement and its aftermath? And how was the international development of the discipline during the middle decades of the twentieth century reflected in the emergence of Australian institutions of criminology, academic and governmental at that time? This article examines these questions as a contribution to a richer historical understanding of the factors that prefigured the late twentieth century acceleration of the discipline in Australia. ...
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    Is there a distinctive Australian criminology? Was there a criminology before the discipline? Was the formation of the discipline in Australia shaped by the historical contexts of colonial settlement and its aftermath? And how was the international development of the discipline during the middle decades of the twentieth century reflected in the emergence of Australian institutions of criminology, academic and governmental at that time? This article examines these questions as a contribution to a richer historical understanding of the factors that prefigured the late twentieth century acceleration of the discipline in Australia. In particular it approaches this history through the voices of those who shaped its early concerns and activities. It is suggested that some outstanding features of Australian historical experience from the time of European settlement - above all its penal colony origins and its dispossession of Indigenous peoples - struggled to make an impact on the intellectual shape of the discipline during its formative years. On the other hand the institutional forms and intellectual concerns traced here demonstrate the importance of trans-national contexts in shaping a discipline from its early days.
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    Journal Title
    Australian & New Zealand Journal of Criminology
    Volume
    45
    Issue
    2
    DOI
    https://doi.org/10.1177/0004865812443682
    Copyright Statement
    © 2012 SAGE Publications. This is the author-manuscript version of the paper. Reproduced in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher. Please refer to the journal's website for access to the definitive, published version.
    Subject
    Criminology
    Criminology not elsewhere classified
    Australian history
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/49297
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