245 research outputs found
Norfolk Island Penal Colony
No full textA reconstructed register of convicts detained at the Norfolk Island Penal Colony. Data was prepared by Dr Tim Causer (University College London) and curated for the Prosecution Project by Mark Finnane and Lisa Durnian
Tasmania Supreme Court 1900-1939
No full textTrials on indictment at Tasmanian Supreme Court from 1900-1939. The data was sourced by the Prosecution Project principally from court registers and record books held at Tasmanian Archives and Heritage Office, and data collection was by Chris Leppard-Quinn. Later curation of the records has included checking against Trove (https://trove.nla.gov.au/) database of digitised newspapers as well as some secondary sources. This dataset includes for most cases url links to the original records available online at TAHO
Western Australia Supreme Court 1900-1939
No full textTrials on indictment at Western Australian Supreme Court, sourced from court register and police gazettes. Data includes name, sex, offence, trial data, judge, verdict, sentence and some trial reports from Trove (nla.gov.au) library of digitised newspapers
Victorian Supreme Court Perjury sample 1855-1914
No full textThis is a sample of Perjury charges heard at the Victorian Supreme Court between 1855-1914. It was generated to support a study reported in an article published in History Australia 2024 (in press). The 277 cases make up about 20% of the total prosecutions for perjury in the court during this period and recorded in the Prosecution Project database, available to public search at https://app.prosecutionproject.griffith.edu.au/web/public-search
Victorian Supreme Court Criminal Trials 1855-1878
No full textThis dataset is derived from the Prosecution Project collection of information on indictable trials at Victorian Supreme Court in Melbourne and on circuit from 1855-1878. The data includes name and sex of offender, offence, verdict, sentence, judge, trial date, trial location, and in some cases links to press reports in the Trove (NLA) database of digitised newspapers
Victorian Supreme Court Trials 1880-1889
No full textTrials on indictment at Victorian Supreme Court. Data accessed from registers in the Public Record Office of Victoria. Includes name, offence, trial date and location, judge, verdict, sentence and some cases include links to reports published in colonial newspapers accessible in the Trove (nla.gov.au) database of digitised newspapers
Victorian Supreme Court Trials 1890-1899
No full textTrials on indictment at Victorian Supreme Court. Data accessed by the Prosecution Project from registers in the Public Record Office of Victoria. Includes name, offence, trial date and location, judge, verdict, sentence and some cases include links to reports published in colonial newspapers accessible in the Trove (nla.gov.au) database of digitised newspapers
Queensland Supreme Court Trials 1850-1899
No full textQueensland Supreme Court trials by indictment 1850-1899. Prior to the establishment of the Queensland Supreme Court in 1861 this dataset includes trials at the Moreton Bay Circuit of the NSW Supreme Court and other transitional courts during the period before and after the separation of Queensland from NSW in 1859. This dataset includes name, offence charged, verdict, sentence, judge, trial date, location of trial. Some cases include links to press reports of the cases in the Trove (NLA) database of digitised newspapers
Western Australia Criminal Trials 1830-1861
No full textCriminal Trials at Quarter Sessions, Western Australia 1830-1861. Prior to the establishment of the Supreme Court in 1861 all criminal trials were at Quarter Sessions from 1830. Data taken from Prosecution Project collection of Western Australia Supreme Court trials. Data includes name, sex, offence, verdict, sentence, trial judge, trial date, and links to press reports in Trove (NLA) database of digitised newspaper
A death in Alice Springs
No full textThe 2010 prosecution of five white men in Alice Springs following the death of an Aboriginal man resulted in their conviction on manslaughter and subsequent sentencing to custodial terms of up to six years each. This article reviews the circumstances of the death and its aftermath to question whether another recent account of the case as an instance of ‘white supremacist settler violence’ in Central Australia can be sustained. Far from being typical of Central Australian homicides, this case was exceptional in its inter-racial character, and far from being exceptional in its sentencing result, this article shows that the prosecution resulted in outcomes for the defendants that appear consistent with the principles in other manslaughter cases. It is argued that interpretation of these events demands an account sensitive to the changing political and social contexts of Central Australia, as well as a contextual account of sentencing practices and outcomes in the Northern Territory jurisdiction.
Mark Finnane is ARC Australian Professorial Fellow, ARC Centre of Excellence in Policing and Security, Griffith University. Kieran Finnane is a writer and journalist with the Alice Springs News, and Alice Springs resident for more than 20 years.
Image: Alice Springs News
Caption: The family of Kwementyaye Ryder call for calm in August 2009 as court proceedings commence. Thomas Buzzacott, cousin of the dead man, reads a prepared statement. Mr Ryder\u27s fiancee and mother are immediately behind him. Karen Liddle, who became the family\u27s main spokesperson during the proceedings, is in white at the far left
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