![]() Keywords Transportation crime reportage ticket-of-leave system legal profession habitual criminality. The attempt to establish a mass-based popular movement to continue transportation failed, but the result was an enduring legacy of public alarm over recidivism and its threat. ![]() ![]() Rowbotham and Stevenson are founders and directors of SOLON: Promoting Interdisciplinary Studies in Bad Behavior and Crime. Kim Stevenson is senior lecturer in law at the University of Plymouth. A number of destinations were suggested, with serious consideration being given to both the Falkland Islands and Vancouver Island. Judith Rowbotham is senior lecturer in history, Nottingham Trent University. To achieve this, the legal profession made use of their influence over the content of crime reportage to challenge the assurances given by figures like Colonel Jebb about the positive early results of domestic penal servitude and to generate widespread concern about the transference of a convict stain back to the UK. ![]() By creating alarm and despondency about the danger posed by introduction of the ticket-of-leave system to the United Kingdom, they hoped to generate popular pressure for a continuation of transportation overseas. Abstract : This article explores the largely forgotten attempts by key members of the legal profession in mid-nineteenth England to bring about a government rethink on the decision to abandon transportation. ![]()
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