Quick thinking, versatility, organisational skills, teamwork, courage, numeracy and familiarity with the retail trade – these are not the usual attributes used to describe convict women but these are characteristics useful in a life of crime. Ironically, they were also a good foundation for colonial life. This paper describes the involvement of women in a particular crime – the trade in forged bank notes, a crime that was prevalent between 1800 and 1821
© 2017 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. Larceny from the person, or pickpocket...
In recent decades, women’s participation in the labor market has increased considerably in most coun...
From a random sample of five-hundred petitions submitted (1819–1840) by felons convicted at the Old ...
This thesis is a study of 3804 female convicts transported to the British penal colony of Van Dieme...
This essay argues that conceptions of gender greatly affected the way women experienced the early mo...
Prostitution has been closely associated with the transportation of women convicts to British penal ...
My dissertation, “Women, Crime, and Social Capital in Eighteenth-Century London,” provides a detaile...
This thesis studies aspects of women's criminal behaviour during the period from 1780-1830, using th...
The history of women and crime is a poorly documented aspect of the lives of Irish women in the nin...
This paper is about women, crime and rationality, the context is the criminal economy. The discussio...
The purpose of this paper on women thieves in the early modern period is to show what remains to be ...
The use of longitudinal data from the criminal records of a sample of 6,042 female prisoners in nine...
This paper will examine the implications of the colonial construction of criminality for our underst...
This book challenges the prevailing historiography of female criminality in nineteenth-century Brita...
Historians have often portrayed female convicts transported to the Australian colonies as victims of...
© 2017 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. Larceny from the person, or pickpocket...
In recent decades, women’s participation in the labor market has increased considerably in most coun...
From a random sample of five-hundred petitions submitted (1819–1840) by felons convicted at the Old ...
This thesis is a study of 3804 female convicts transported to the British penal colony of Van Dieme...
This essay argues that conceptions of gender greatly affected the way women experienced the early mo...
Prostitution has been closely associated with the transportation of women convicts to British penal ...
My dissertation, “Women, Crime, and Social Capital in Eighteenth-Century London,” provides a detaile...
This thesis studies aspects of women's criminal behaviour during the period from 1780-1830, using th...
The history of women and crime is a poorly documented aspect of the lives of Irish women in the nin...
This paper is about women, crime and rationality, the context is the criminal economy. The discussio...
The purpose of this paper on women thieves in the early modern period is to show what remains to be ...
The use of longitudinal data from the criminal records of a sample of 6,042 female prisoners in nine...
This paper will examine the implications of the colonial construction of criminality for our underst...
This book challenges the prevailing historiography of female criminality in nineteenth-century Brita...
Historians have often portrayed female convicts transported to the Australian colonies as victims of...
© 2017 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. Larceny from the person, or pickpocket...
In recent decades, women’s participation in the labor market has increased considerably in most coun...
From a random sample of five-hundred petitions submitted (1819–1840) by felons convicted at the Old ...