Incredible Hulks: Ship Schools and the Reformatory Movement

Smith, Colin

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“…In Australia, reformatory schools in Victoria as well as Queensland were initially housed in ship hulks. These schools were progressive institutions for their time (Smith, 1998).…”

Section: A Queensland Reformatorymentioning

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A breakdown of reformatory education: remembering Westbrook

Carden¹

2018

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Purpose Westbrook Farm Home for Boys in Queensland, Australia, existed in various forms for over 100 years. As such, it offers a valuable window into Australian approaches to managing and reforming boys through the twentieth century. The purpose of this paper is to examine its approach to reforming teenage boys during a period marked by a mass escape in 1961. It argues that the reformatory education initially intended was no longer tenable during this moment in history, and that this period represents a breakdown of that approach. Design/methodology/approach This paper draws on material including newspaper reports, memoirs, and the report of an inquiry into an escape by inmates in 1961. These are analysed in order to construct a picture of the type of reformatory education during this period and the public and official responses to this. Findings Westbrook Farm Home for Boys was, during this period, an institution attempting to provide a reformatory education at a historical moment when such an education was no longer viewed as appropriate means of addressing the criminal behaviour of youths. This, combined with the leadership of a domineering figure in Superintendent Roy Golledge, led to a culture of abuse, rather than education. The uncovering of this culture was a pivotal moment in the transition of Westbrook into an institution explicitly dealing with criminal youths. Originality/value No academic work relating to this moment in Westbrook’s history has been previously published.

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“…In Australia, reformatory schools in Victoria as well as Queensland were initially housed in ship hulks. These schools were progressive institutions for their time (Smith, 1998).…”

Section: A Queensland Reformatorymentioning

confidence: 99%

A breakdown of reformatory education: remembering Westbrook

Carden¹

2018

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“…The government-operated reformatory which would eventuate from this legislation began its life in 1871 as the Reformatory School for Boys on the former prison hulk, Proserpine. This was no anomaly -ship hulks were used as reformatory schools in England, most notably Liverpool (Smith, 1998). In 1890 eleven ships housed either industrial or reformatory schools in England.…”

Section: Child Removal and The Reformatorymentioning

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Reformatory schools and Whiteness in danger: An Australian case

Carden

2018

Childhood

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The Queensland Reformatory and Industrial Schools Act (1865) provided for the creation of a system of reformatory and industrial schools. This paper explores the early years of the reformatory for boys. The Act defined Aboriginal children as 'neglected' and eligible to be sent to this institution. However, of the first thousand children admitted, all but thirty-three were white. This paper explains this contradiction by positioning the reformatory as a space in which fears about the fragility of whiteness were enacted.

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The Politics of Neglect: Policing, Institutionalising, and Providing for ‘Neglected Children’ in Late Nineteenth-Century Queensland

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Wimshurst

2021

Cultural and Social History

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Incredible Hulks: Ship Schools and the Reformatory Movement

Cited by 3 publications

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A breakdown of reformatory education: remembering Westbrook

A breakdown of reformatory education: remembering Westbrook

Reformatory schools and Whiteness in danger: An Australian case

The Politics of Neglect: Policing, Institutionalising, and Providing for ‘Neglected Children’ in Late Nineteenth-Century Queensland

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