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dc.contributor.authorRowbotham, Judith
dc.date.accessioned2019-06-06T09:53:19Z
dc.date.available2019-06-06T09:53:19Z
dc.date.issued2019
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Rowbotham, J. (2019) 'Manipulating the Media: Victorian Lawyers, Transportation, and the Creation of Panic over Habitual Criminals', SOLON Law, Crime and History, 9(1), p. 62-97.

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dc.identifier.issn2045-9238
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10026.1/14246
dc.description.abstract

This article explores the largely forgotten attempts by key members of the legal profession in mid-nineteenth England to bring about a government rethink on the decision to abandon transportation. By creating alarm and despondency about the danger posed by introduction of the ticket-of-leave system to the United Kingdom, they hoped to generate popular pressure for a continuation of transportation overseas. To achieve this, the legal profession made use of their influence over the content of crime reportage to challenge the assurances given by figures like Colonel Jebb about the positive early results of domestic penal servitude and to generate widespread concern about the transference of a convict stain back to the UK. A number of destinations were suggested, with serious consideration being given to both the Falkland Islands and Vancouver Island. The attempt to establish a mass-based popular movement to continue transportation failed, but the result was an enduring legacy of public alarm over recidivism and its threat.

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dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherUniversity of Plymouth
dc.rightsAttribution 3.0 United States*
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/us/*
dc.subjectTransportationen_US
dc.subjectcrime reportageen_US
dc.subjectticket-of-leave systemen_US
dc.subjectlegal professionen_US
dc.subjecthabitual criminalityen_US
dc.titleManipulating the Media: Victorian Lawyers, Transportation, and the Creation of Panic over Habitual Criminalsen_US
plymouth.issue1
plymouth.volume9
plymouth.journalSOLON Law, Crime and History


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