Re Doug's story about corrupt convict police, you can read Margaret Dillon's PhD thesis about convict police in Campbelltown online at http://eprints.utas.edu.au/7777/2/02Whole1.pdf. It's worth noting that the system that rewarded them financially for making arrests would have contributed to a culture of corruption. Susan Geason

That is wonderful Susan. Thsnk you for the link. Hadn't seen it before. Helen Brown Sent from my iPad > On 3 Jan 2015, at 12:31 pm, Susan Geason via <aus-tasmania@rootsweb.com> wrote: > > Re Doug's story about corrupt convict police, you can read Margaret > Dillon's PhD thesis about convict police in Campbelltown online at > http://eprints.utas.edu.au/7777/2/02Whole1.pdf. It's worth noting that the > system that rewarded them financially for making arrests would have > contributed to a culture of corruption. > > Susan Geason > > > ------------------------------- > AUS-Tasmania Mailing List Website http://www.rootsweb.com/~austashs/ > Contact Admin AUS-Tasmania-Admin@rootsweb.com > Search the Archive (type AUS-Tasmania in the list box) > http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to AUS-TASMANIA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message