Western Australian Museum

Location	Library	Shelf no	Status	Year	Volume	Copy
Geraldton	Western Australian Museum	994.1 WES	Available

Justice on the edge : crime and punishment in Western Australia / Thomas A. Lawson

Author: Lawson, Thomas A., 1940-

Call no: 364.9941 LAW

Year: 1999

Book

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Main Library	Western Australian Museum	364.9941 LAW	Available

Orphaned as a child and brought up by a housekeeper, Sir Ronald left school at fourteen to earn a living as a messenger in the local Geraldton courthouse, before subsequently enjoying a meteoric rise in the legal profession to become

a Justice in the highest court in Australia. Best known for Bringing Them Home (his moving and controversial 1997 report on the 'Stolen Generations' of Aboriginal children), Sir Ronald was also Crown Prosecutor in a number of high profile, important criminal and civil cases, including the trials of Eric Cooke (the last man hanged in Western Australia), John Button and Darryl Beamish.

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History	Western Australian Museum	920.0941 BUT	Available

Prosecuting crime in nineteenth-century Western Australia

Author: Handford, Peter

Call no: P994.1 (BayS3)

Year: 2019

Journal Article

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Location	Library	Shelf no	Status
History	Western Australian Museum	994.1 PUR	Available
Kalgoorlie	Western Australian Museum	994.1 PUR	Available
Main Library	Western Australian Museum	994.1 PUR	Available

This collection details the use of gum trees and logs as gaols in the Western Australian country and bush. It also details the chaining of native prisoners by bush police, similar conditions applied to white men at the same time.

Location	Library	Shelf no	Status	Year	Volume	Copy
Kalgoorlie	Western Australian Museum	365.9941 BRI	Available

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