Criminal Law and Colonial Subject: New South Wales, 1810-1830 (Studies in Australian History) Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

Criminal Law and Colonial Subject: New South Wales, 1810-1830 (Studies in Australian History) Book

What did ordinary people understand by guilt, suspicion, evidence and the term "offense"? This book explores the relationship of a colonial people with English law and looks at the way in which the practice of law developed among the ordinary population.Read More

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    This book explores the relationship of a colonial people with English law and looks at the way in which the practice of law developed among the ordinary population. Paula Jane Byrne traces the boundaries among property, sexuality and violence, drawing from court records, dispositions and proceedings. She asks: What did ordinary people understand by guilt, suspicion, evidence and the term "offense"? She illuminates the values and beliefs of the emerging colonial consciousness and the complexity of power relations in the colony. The book reconstructs the legal process with great tetail and richness and is able to evoke the everyday lives of people in the colonial NSW.

  • 0521403790
  • 9780521403795
  • Paula Jane Byrne
  • 29 January 1993
  • Cambridge University Press
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 315
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