The Global Impact of London Punishments
Penal TransportationImprisonment
NOT GUILTY DEATHTRANSPORTATION IMPRISONMENT CORPORAL / FINES 143,809 defendants 38,592 6,177 31,739 42,927 17,374 Old Bailey Jan 1786 – Dec 1867 Hulk Voyage c.23,300 NSW c.11,500, VDL c.10,500 WA c.1000 Servitude Factory/Barracks/Gangs Assignment/Probation Reoffending/Secondary punishment Servitude Factory/Barracks/Gangs Assignment/Probation Reoffending/Secondary punishment Freedom
NOT GUILTY DEATHTRANSPORTATION IMPRISONMENT CORPORAL / FINES 143,809 defendants 38,592 6,177 31,739 42,927 17,374 Old Bailey Jan 1786 – Dec 1867 Hulk Voyage c.23,300 NSW c.11,500, VDL c.10,500 WA c.1000 Servitude Factory/Barracks/Gangs Assignment/Probation Reoffending/Secondary punishment Servitude Factory/Barracks/Gangs Assignment/Probation Reoffending/Secondary punishment Freedom
NOT GUILTY DEATHTRANSPORTATION IMPRISONMENT CORPORAL / FINES 143,809 defendants 38,592 6,177 31,739 42,927 17,374 Old Bailey Jan 1786 – Dec 1867 Hulk Voyage c.23,300 NSW c.11,500, VDL c.10,500 WA c.1000 Servitude Factory/Barracks/Gangs Assignment/Probation Reoffending/Secondary punishment Servitude Factory/Barracks/Gangs Assignment/Probation Reoffending/Secondary punishment Freedom
NOT GUILTY DEATHTRANSPORTATION IMPRISONMENT CORPORAL / FINES 143,809 defendants 38,592 6,177 31,739 42,927 17,374 Old Bailey Jan 1786 – Dec 1867 Hulk Voyage c.23,300 NSW c.11,500, VDL c.10,500 WA c.1000 Servitude Factory/Barracks/Gangs Assignment/Probation Reoffending/Secondary punishment Servitude Factory/Barracks/Gangs Assignment/Probation Reoffending/Secondary punishment Freedom
NOT GUILTY DEATHTRANSPORTATION IMPRISONMENT CORPORAL / FINES 143,809 defendants 38,592 6,177 31,739 42,927 17,374 Old Bailey Jan 1786 – Dec 1867 Hulk Voyage c.23,300 NSW c.11,500, VDL c.10,500 WA c.1000 Servitude Factory/Barracks/Gangs Assignment/Probation Reoffending/Secondary punishment Servitude Factory/Barracks/Gangs Assignment/Probation Reoffending/Secondary punishment Freedom
NOT GUILTY DEATHTRANSPORTATION IMPRISONMENT CORPORAL / FINES 143,809 defendants 38,592 6,177 31,739 42,927 17,374 Old Bailey Jan 1786 – Dec 1867 Hulk Voyage c.23,300 NSW c.11,500, VDL c.10,500 WA c.1000 Servitude Factory/Barracks/Gangs Assignment/Probation Reoffending/Secondary punishment Servitude Factory/Barracks/Gangs Assignment/Probation Reoffending/Secondary punishment Freedom
NOT GUILTY DEATHTRANSPORTATION IMPRISONMENT CORPORAL / FINES 143,809 defendants 38,592 6,177 31,739 42,927 17,374 Old Bailey Jan 1786 – Dec 1867 Hulk Voyage c.23,300 NSW c.11,500, VDL c.10,500 WA c.1000 Servitude Factory/Barracks/Gangs Assignment/Probation Reoffending/Secondary punishment Servitude Factory/Barracks/Gangs Assignment/Probation Reoffending/Secondary punishment Freedom
NOT GUILTY DEATHTRANSPORTATION IMPRISONMENT CORPORAL / FINES 143,809 defendants 38,592 6,177 31,739 42,927 17,374 Old Bailey Jan 1786 – Dec 1867 Hulk Voyage c.23,300 NSW c.11,500, VDL c.10,500 WA c.1000 Servitude Factory/Barracks/Gangs Assignment/Probation Reoffending/Secondary punishment Servitude Factory/Barracks/Gangs Assignment/Probation Reoffending/Secondary punishment Freedom
How to improve data linkage? How can visualisations assist analysis? What epistemological constructions were shaping criminal justice records? How did defendants speak to authority; in what voice, what idiom? Where punishment systems effective? What were the long and short-term consequences of different modes of punishment? What were the intergenerational consequences? What else can these individuals tell us about the lives of non-elites in industrialising Britain? Bob Shoemaker Sheffield Tim Hitchcock Sussex Barry Godfrey Liverpool Hamish Maxwell Stewart UTAS Deb Oxley Oxford
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