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Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP140102231 [ 2014-01-01 - 2017-12-31 ]

Research Grant

[Cite as https://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/DP140102231]

Researchers: A/Prof Hamish Maxwell-Stewart (Chief Investigator) ,  Prof Barry Godfrey (Partner Investigator) ,  Prof Kris Inwood (Partner Investigator)

Brief description Cornstalks and new chums: crime and nutritional status in settler Australia. The project will use records for 200,000 Australian-born and migrant prisoners released from Tasmanian and Victorian gaols between 1853 and 1924 to probe links between childhood well-being and the propensity to re-offend. It will explore the extent to which childhood nutrition (inferred from adult height), the timing and place of birth, and adult occupation can explain migration advantages, the impact of large cities like Melbourne on child health, and the circumstances that gave rise to recidivism? This project will also explore changes in the composition of offenders over time and the extent to which different penal systems helped offenders to ‘go straight’.

Funding Amount $229,000

Funding Scheme Discovery Projects

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