A History of Crime in Australia

This book provides a lively and accessible account of Australia's most prominent crimes and criminals of the nineteenth and twentieth century, and offers an informative background for those seeking to understand crimes committed today.

Auteur

Nancy Cushing is Associate Professor of History at the University of Newcastle, Australia. She is an environmental historian interested in human-other animal relations, most recently co editing Animals Count (Routledge 2018) with Jodi Frawley. This book is based on her undergraduate course Australian Underworlds which she has taught as an on-campus and massive open online course to over a thousand students since 2017.