Vice in a Vicious Society

Vice in a Vicious Society Drawing on sociological and criminological material, the author provides a new insight into the nature and extent of crime in New South Wales, from bushranging, sex offenses to drunkenness and obscene language. A well written and most readable book University of Queensland Press, St. Lucia, 1983. First Edition. Hardcover. Good Condition/Very Good. Illustrator: graphs. previous owner has stapled reviews of the front page, and there is some underlining. Otherwise, apart from fading of spine section of the dust jacket, there is no damage to describe. Both contemporaries and historians have generally viewed colonial New South Wales as a “vicious society,” seeing its crime rate as the legacy of convicts who corrupted community morals,…ISBN0702219118