Convicts & the colonies: a study of penal transportation from Great Britain & Ireland to Australia and other Parts of the British Empire
Alan George L. Shaw From the back "Professor Shaw examines the working of the transportation system far more closely than his predecessors, who have so often been content with few horror stories. In this book he puts it in its proper place as one of various modes of punishment used in the English penal system, and considers its reformatory as well as its deterrent features. He reminds us that Australia was not the only colony to which British statesmen wanted to send their felons, and discusses projects of transprtation to the American colonies and South Africa, and incidentally throws light on some of the considerations which led to the foundation of Australia, and the 'choice of Botany Bay'. His discussion of of the character of the convicts settles the long arguments about the criminality of Australia's founding fathers, by subjecting their records to rigorous scrutiny, instead of merely repeating the glib self-justifications of a few."
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399 Pages