‘Us Girls Won’t Put One Another Away’: relations among Melbourne’s prostitute pickpockets, 1860–1920

Piper, AJ

‘Us Girls Won’t Put One Another Away’: relations among Melbourne’s prostitute pickpockets, 1860–1920

Piper, AJ

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Citation:: Women's History Review, 2018, 27 (2), pp. 247 - 265
Issue Date:: 2018-02-23

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dc.contributor.author	Piper, AJ https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9369-5862	en_US
dc.date.available	2020-05-25T19:15:02Z
dc.date.issued	2018-02-23	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	Women's History Review, 2018, 27 (2), pp. 247 - 265	en_US
dc.identifier.issn	0961-2025	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/122195
dc.description.abstract	© 2017 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. Larceny from the person, or pickpocketing, was the most common form of indictable crime committed by female offenders in turn-of-the-century Melbourne. It was an offence particularly likely to appear within the criminal careers of recidivist female offenders. Female pickpocketing, however, was notoriously difficult to prosecute. The usual differences found in trial outcomes for men and women were exacerbated by the specific contexts in which such robberies occurred, that is in the context of solicitation or sex work. This not only meant victims were reluctant to prosecute, but that women’s offending often took place within criminal subcultures that fostered interpersonal relationships between women that served to support them throughout the commission of the crime and during the trial process.	en_US
dc.relation.ispartof	Women's History Review	en_US
dc.relation.isbasedon	10.1080/09612025.2017.1321613	en_US
dc.subject.classification	History	en_US
dc.title	‘Us Girls Won’t Put One Another Away’: relations among Melbourne’s prostitute pickpockets, 1860–1920	en_US
dc.type	Journal Article
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utslib.citation.volume	27	en_US
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pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
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© 2017 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. Larceny from the person, or pickpocketing, was the most common form of indictable crime committed by female offenders in turn-of-the-century Melbourne. It was an offence particularly likely to appear within the criminal careers of recidivist female offenders. Female pickpocketing, however, was notoriously difficult to prosecute. The usual differences found in trial outcomes for men and women were exacerbated by the specific contexts in which such robberies occurred, that is in the context of solicitation or sex work. This not only meant victims were reluctant to prosecute, but that women’s offending often took place within criminal subcultures that fostered interpersonal relationships between women that served to support them throughout the commission of the crime and during the trial process.

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