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Criminal Law and Colonial Subject

Criminal Law and Colonial Subject

Byrne, Paula Jane

Hardcover

Series: Studies in Australian History

Australia & OceaniaGeneral Law

ISBN10: 0521403790
ISBN13: 9780521403795
Publisher: Cambridge
Published: Jan 29 1993
Pages: 315
Weight: 1.92
Height: 0.75 Width: 8.00 Depth: 10.00
Language: English
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.

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