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Criminal Boys in a Remote Landscape: The Archaeology of Point Puer (1834-1849), an Experimental Reform Institution in Colonial Australia (2021)
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This is an abstract from the session entitled "Environmental and Social Issues within Historical Archaeology (General Sessions)" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Criminal children formed a notable proportion of the convict population transported to colonial Australia. During a global shift in the ideology of the treatment of criminal youth, an experimental institution for the training and reform of colonial boy prisoners was established at Point Puer in...