Convict

required for those organizations to make a judgement call. Therefore, the court system is the most important component of the criminal justice system due to ensuring criminal rights towards convicts. Unlike law enforcement and corrections system, the court system is the only component where both criminals and convicts are provided with equality. Without fairness and equality, many people would not have full confidence in the criminal justice system. According to Spratt (2014), “It is only when

of opportunity. For both convicts and free settlers life in Australia was extremely harsh. The lifestyle of Australia was extremely different to the environment that they were used to back home in England and it would have been hard for them to adapt to. However life in Australia wasn’t all that bad, for most of the convicts it was a second chance at life and for the free settlers it was a great opportunity to make their fortune. The working conditions that the convicts in early colonial Australia

core groups: the convicts and the authoritative ship crew. The play centers around crime and punishment, and whether the right punishments are really being issued. It seems that for the crimes being committed, the punishments are too extreme. Wertenbaker’s characters begin to question morality. Members of the crew question if flogging/hanging is really the best form of “entertainment”, and rather putting on a play could possibly provide some healing and redemption for the convicts. Second Lieutenant

life Ages ago many people came to Australia due to many reasons. They came as convicts, as people who were searching for opportunities, gold and for a better life. Another main reason was the expansion of British colonies all around the world. On 18 January 1788, the First Fleet arrived at Botany Bay, from Britain, which Joseph Banks had

mood. He describes the churchyard as 'bleak' and 'overgrown', stressing the grimness and the isolation of the churchyard during Pip's encounter with the convict. Dickens uses repetition of 'nettles' and 'tombstones' to perhaps suggest that the churchyard is a place of pain and death. This emphasizes the sinister mood of Pip's encounter with the convict by creating anxiety in the reader. Dickens mentions that the afternoon was heading towards evening, suggesting that it was cold and fairly dark in the

with his sister Mrs Joe Gargery and her husband who is a blacksmith. The story is set in the graveyard in the time of the Industrial Revolution. In the opening chapter we also see Pip being introduced to a convict who is very poor but very rude to the child. The convict threatens Pip and warns him that if he does not get any food for him, he will be in serious trouble. In the opening chapter we see Charles Dickens (the author) use a range of different language techniques

Kingston Penitentiary were about reformation of the convicts within. In the Sundry Documents the author explains that the penitentiary is place for a convict to repent on his sins and deter him from future crime. The document explains that a penitentiary is place for punishment and not the source of revenue or manufactory. Although this document does add the idea that a penitentiary is meant to deter, not necessarily reform, one can assume that a convict would receive both benefits once being placed in

Triangular Trade   Convicts Although the convicts of the first fleet arrived in relatively good condition, the same cannot be said for those that followed during the rest of

In 1884 the Hyde Park Barracks changed from to a Female Immigration Depot. The convicts in Hyde Park were relocated to Cockatoo Island. Orphan girls from Ireland, females from the jailhouses of Britain, young women looking for new prospects, and women and children of convicts were provided with short-term shelter until they were collected by family or friends or waiting to be employed. At dusk, they slept on iron beds in dormitories. In 1862 the main buildings top floor was transformed into an asylum

Britain’s Penal System Why are Australia’s founding fathers convicts? Many of the criminals in Victorian England were sent to Australia in exile. There was not enough money to build more prisons in England, so they were transported somewhere where Britain would not have to deal with them. There are multiple reasons for overpopulating the continent with lawbreakers other than just Britain’s financial problems. A majority of the convicts were thieves or women who were out past curfew. Researching