RE: Transportation to Australia, here are a few references:
A. Frost, *Convicts & Empire...* (Melbourne 1980)
M. Gillen, "The Botany Bay Decision...," *EHR* (1982) 740-66
R. Hughes, *The Fatal Shore* [any bookstore would have]
A. Shaw, *Convicts & the Colonies* (London, 1966)
M. Weidenhofer, *The Convict Years* (Melbourne, 1973)
The English context is discussed in the superb book by John Beattie, *Crime
and the Courts in England, 1660-1800* (Princeton, 1986)--he cites some of the
above.
Also, S. McConville, *A History of English Prison Administration* Vol. I
(London, 1981)
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R.D. Storch, Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison Institute For Research in the
Humanities, [rstorch@macc.wisc.edu]