Bibliograph

Tocqueville and Australia, Colin Forster

Type

Label

Tocqueville and Australia, Colin Forster

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references

resource.governmentPublication

federal national government publication

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Tocqueville and Australia

Nature of contents

bibliography

Responsibility statement

Colin Forster

Series statement

Working paper, no. 172

Summary

Discusses the work of historian and penologist Alexis de Tocqueville, whose interest in French penal reform led him to analyse the system of transporting convicts to Australia; analysis of the nature and application of this system, the types of crimes punishable by deportation, and its effects on the rate and type of crime, the convicts and the society it produced in Australia

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