Juvenile convicts and their colonial familial lives

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Path dependence and jumping tracks: Investigating institutional continuity and change across the Tasmanian convict and pauper systems

“…Such treatment reflected the tightening of control on convicts. Convicts had always been subject to added surveillance and restrictions when compared with free persons, but powers to police and prosecute convicts increased throughout the 19th century as the colony began to see itself as too civilised for its penal associations (Watkins, 2021). This process extended to the ‘care’ of the invalid and aged poor in Tasmania as convict numbers decreased, but there were differences between the north and south.…”