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To Preserve and Protect

Policing Colonial Brisbane
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To Preserve and Protect by Anastasia Dukova explores the history and evolution of policing methods and practices in Queensland, Australia. The book delves into the challenges faced by the police force over time, examining their role in maintaining public order while navigating societal changes and crises. It's a detailed journey through the stories and experiences that have shaped modern law enforcement in the region.
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This book may appeal to you if you're interested in understanding the evolution of law enforcement and societal protection through a historical lens. Written by Anastasia Dukova, it offers an insightful exploration into the intricate connections between history and military practices, shedding light on how societies have striven to maintain order and security.

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An engaging history of policing and justice in colonial-era Australia.

Early Australian policing had its roots on the streets of Dublin and London, where many of Australia's first law and order enforcers hailed from.

Intrigued by this connection, historian Anastasia Dukova has researched and recreated the lives of colonial police officers and criminals in her adopted home city of Brisbane. Through exploring their personal stories, Dukova highlights how biography and history are inextricably linked and reveals the differences between metropolitan aspirations and colonial reality.

To Preserve and Protect also exposes political power abuse, corruption, mismanagement, professional burnout and gendered justice, issues which continue to challenge police forces.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780702260148

Publisher: University of Queensland Press

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 16 June 2020

Country: Australia

Imprint: University of Queensland Press

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 22.0mm

Width: 153.0mm

Height: 226.0mm

Weight: 333g

Pages: 248

About the Author

Anastasia Dukova holds a PhD in crime and policing history from the University of Dublin, Trinity College. She is a member of the Irish Association of Professional Historians and the Professional Historians Association Queensland. Her research on nineteenth-century Irish and Australian policing history and historical criminology has been published widely, and her doctoral and postdoctoral findings were published in 2016 as A History of the Dublin Metropolitan Police and its Colonial Legacy in Palgrave Macmillan's World Histories of Crime, Culture and Violence series. She has held fellowships with the State Library of Queensland, Harry Gentle Resource Centre and Griffith Criminology Institute, as well as a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Toronto and a postgraduate scholarship with the Irish Research Council. Anastasia is a partner investigator on an Australian Research Council Discovery Project that investigates the policing of migrant communities in Britain and Australia throughout the twentieth century (DP180102200). She also lends her historical crime and policing expertise to public and professional lectures, as well as popular history projects such as Century Ireland, RT and Who Do You Think You Are? www.policingcolonialbrisbane.com

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