A history of criminal law in New South Wales : the colonial period, 1788-1900 / G. D. Woods.

Annandale, N.S.W. : Federation Press, 2002.

1st edition

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Criminal law -- History -- Australia.

Criminal justice, Administration of -- History -- New South Wales.

1. Savagery, principle and mercy in the criminal law

2. Imposition and inheritance : the transportation of English criminal law to New South Wales

3. Criminal law in a penal settlement

4. Criminal law and Governor Macquarie : right and wrong, cheek by jowl

5. Crimes of the pen : and an experiment

6. Struggling from chains : juries, the lash and natives

7. Making trials work : the other William Blackstone

8. English reforms adopted : retreat of the death penalty

9. The colony legislates on crime

10. The insanity defence : McNaghten and Knatchbull

11. The end of transportation, 1849

12. Sir John Jervis : lower court reforms of 1850

13. The gold rushes : temporary problems for criminal law

14. Outlaws and urchins

15. A most irregular traffic: slaving cases in New South Wales courts

16. The mad Fenian : criminal process under pressure

17. The first Law Reform Commission and its 1871 report

18. Edward Butler and the Reform Bill : Untoward circumstances

19. J G L Innes and the Reform Bill : a second failure

20. W B Dalley and the Reform Bill : yet another failure

21. The Larrikin Residuum, 1881

22. The 1882 debate : Serving their term

23. The Great Bill passes : 1883

24. The light that failed : mandatory sentencing repealed

25. Enter, the accused

26. The accused as witness : the "Comment" issue

27. Doctor Malthus and the baby farmers

28. George Dean and friends

29. Tidying up in 1900.

Includes bibliography and index.

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xx, 460 pages ; 25 cm