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Convicts: New Zealand's Hidden Criminal Past

Matthew Wright

New Zealand's Pakeha origin as a bolt-hole for convicts escaping Australia, a place where former convicts joined whaling and sealing gangs, and where sea captains thumbed their noses at the law, has been quietly forgotten.

GenresCriminal justice, Administration ofNew ZealandCriminalsHistory19th century

253 pages, 2 editions

English edition · First published 2012 by Penguin Books · ISBN 9780143567646

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2 editions

English

  • Convicts: New Zealand's Hidden Criminal Past · Penguin Books · 2012 · ISBN 9780143567646 This page
  • Convicts: New Zealand's Hidden Criminal Past · Penguin Books Limited · 2012 · ISBN 9781742532493

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