WEST AUSTRALIANA

The book, the first to be written about the Western Australian prison system, examines how the system evolved, how it relates to a changing and expanding society, and analyses the historical forces that created the system as it stands today.

• xv,219p., 4p. of plates, 1 leaf of plates : graph, map ; 23cm. append. (1-3), notes, biblio., index. First Edition
• Bibliography: p.207-215.

#180124 (Closed tear to jacket.)

• Penal system. Western Australia, 1826-1978
• Imprisonment — Western Australia — History
• Prisons — Western Australia — History
• Punishment — Australia — Western — Australia — History
• Law enforcement – Prisons
• Human biology – Physical anthropology – Human evolution
• Colonisation
• Rottnest Island / Wadjemup (SW WA SH50-14)