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dc.contributor.authorFinnane, Mark
dc.date.accessioned2017-05-03T11:23:54Z
dc.date.available2017-05-03T11:23:54Z
dc.date.issued2009
dc.date.modified2011-06-06T06:00:44Z
dc.identifier.issn1043-9463
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/10439460903281562
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/30200
dc.description.abstractThe capacity of police to manage immigrant populations in times of conflict was developed in the course of the twentieth century through a multiplicity of techniques and strategies. Inter-agency and cross-jurisdictional capability for the ends of population surveillance and crime control was historically contingent on institutional initiatives that are rarely explored. An important origin of such capability in Australia was the Conference of Police Commissioners, first held in 1903. Its agenda after the First World War was pre-occupied with the management of aliens, the immigrant populations of Australia. This paper explores the institutional and political contexts that shaped the control of 'aliens' in Australia's early and mid-twentieth century with particular interest in the development of policing powers and techniques that operated within and without the crime control and prevention mandates that are most commonly associated with the modern public police. During these decades Australian police leaders, drawing on their own and international experience in two World Wars, expanded their vision of what policing of the alien demanded. By the early post-war years they sought universal surveillance of migrants through the still developing technologies of fingerprint and photographic databases. Their failure to achieve what they demanded at this time was a signal of their subordination in a politics of immigration that prioritised assimilation and integration of large new populations as a national undertaking.
dc.description.peerreviewedYes
dc.description.publicationstatusYes
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dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherRoutledge
dc.publisher.placeUnited Kingdom
dc.relation.ispartofstudentpublicationN
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom442
dc.relation.ispartofpageto467
dc.relation.ispartofissue4
dc.relation.ispartofjournalPolicing and Society
dc.relation.ispartofvolume19
dc.relation.urihttp://purl.org/au-research/grants/ARC/DP0771492
dc.relation.grantIDDP0771492
dc.relation.fundersARC
dc.rights.retentionY
dc.subject.fieldofresearchCriminology
dc.subject.fieldofresearchPolice administration, procedures and practice
dc.subject.fieldofresearchPolicy and administration
dc.subject.fieldofresearchSocial work
dc.subject.fieldofresearchAustralian history
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode4402
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode440211
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode4407
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode4409
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode430302
dc.titleControlling the ‘alien’ in mid-twentieth century Australia: the origins and fate of a policing role
dc.typeJournal article
dc.type.descriptionC1 - Articles
dc.type.codeC - Journal Articles
gro.facultyArts, Education & Law Group, School of Humanities, Languages and Social Sciences
gro.rights.copyright© 2009 Routledge. This is an electronic version of an article published in Policing and Society, Volume 19, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 442 - 467. Policing and Society is available online at: http://www.informaworld.com with the open URL of your article.
gro.date.issued2009
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gro.griffith.authorFinnane, Mark J.


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