Armed Robbers: Identity and Cultural Mythscapes in the Lucky Country (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780198855132)

Notoriously difficult to access, armed robbers have mostly eluded the attempts of authors to access their lives. Aside from biographies of the most infamous, the stories of armed robbers, as varied, bizarre, and captivating as they are, have rarely been told. This has resulted in robbers being considered as largely homogenous; their unique pathways to crime ignored or lumped into ill-defined stereotypes. Yet their routes into one of the most serious violent crimes could not be more varied. Written by a leading female criminologist, Armed Robbers relays the powerful, sometimes amusing, often harrowing stories of 42 convicted criminals in Australia. Their accounts are interwoven with historical events and national folk tales - colonial settlement, convict ancestry, gold rushes, and a sometimes-ferocious hyper-masculinity born of frustration and constructed in forgotten towns - each contribute threads that when sewn together produce a uniquely Australian criminal identity.

Author: Emmeline Taylor
ISBN-10: 0198855133
ISBN-13: 9780198855132
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Language: English
Published: 06/30/2022
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 9.00h x 5.70w x 0.90d