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Title: The Rise and Fall of Penal Transportation
Contributor(s): Maxwell-Stewart, Hamish  (author)orcid 
Publication Date: 2016-05
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199352333.013.33
Handle Link: https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/32903
Abstract: Many societies have either transported convicted prisoners to a place of coerced labor or sold them as slaves. From the fifteenth to the twentieth centuries several European states made extensive use of penal transportation to supply labor to overseas colonies. A practice that operated in parallel to the Atlantic and Indian Ocean slave trades, penal transportation was applied to both prisoners sentenced in European courts and those convicted in the colonies. Emerging at the same time as galley service and the workhouse, transportation expanded the range of sentencing options available to early modern states. Although criticized by European penal reformers in the nineteenth century because of its close association with slavery and other exploitative labor extraction systems, penal transportation survived into the twentieth century, largely because it was comparatively cheap and provided a means of punishing both metropolitan and colonial offenders.
Publication Type: Book Chapter
Source of Publication: Oxford Handbook of the History of Crime and Criminal Justice, p. 1-24
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Place of Publication: New York, United States of America
ISBN: 9780199352333
Fields of Research (FoR) 2020: 430302 Australian history
430313 History of empires, imperialism and colonialism
430311 Historical studies of crime
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2020: 280113 Expanding knowledge in history, heritage and archaeology
HERDC Category Description: B1 Chapter in a Scholarly Book
WorldCat record: http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1151092300
Editor: Editor(s): Paul Knepper and Anja Johansen
Appears in Collections:Book Chapter
School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences

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