Convict in United States
Convict Definition
One who has been condemned by a competent court; one who has been convicted of a crime or misdemeanor. To condemn; to find guilty of a crime or misdemeanor. 4 Bl, Comm. 362.
Convict in Foreign Legal Encyclopedias
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| Convict | Convict in the World Legal Encyclopedia. |
| Convict | Convict in the European Legal Encyclopedia. |
| Convict | Convict in the Asian Legal Encyclopedia. |
| Convict | Convict in the UK Legal Encyclopedia. |
| Convict | Convict in the Australian Legal Encyclopedia. |
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Legal Issue for Attorneys
One who has been condemned by a competent court; one who has been convicted of a crime or misdemeanor. To condemn; to find guilty of a crime or misdemeanor. 4 Bl, Comm. 362.
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Further Reading (Articles)
Representing Convicts: New Perspectives on Convict Forced Labour Migration.(Review) (book reviews), Journal of Australian Studies; September 1, 1998; Evans, Raymond
Convict Workers: Reinterpreting Australia’s Past., Industrial and Labor Relations Review; July 1, 1991; Dufty, Norman F.
Convict Words: Language in Early Colonial Australia.(Book Review), Australian Literary Studies; May 1, 2004; Bremer, Anette
The Convict System of New South Wales: A Review of Archaeological Research since 2001, Archaeology in Oceania; July 1, 2012; Gibbs, Martin
Indian convict workers in Southeast Asia in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries., Journal of World History; June 1, 2003; Yang, Anand A.
Robert Jordan, The Convict Theatres of Early Australia 1788-1840.(Book Review), Journal of Australian Studies; June 1, 2003; Spies, Marion
Monitoring the situation: the `convict journal’, convict protest and convicts’ rights., Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society; June 1, 1999; IHDE, ERIN
One Dies, Get Another: Convict Leasing in the American South, 1866-1928.(Review), The Historian; January 1, 1999; Miller, Randall M.
What do we know about the Scottish convicts?(convicts transported to Australia), Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society; June 1, 2004; Prentis, Malcolm D.
The Wisdom of Executing Death convicts.(Opinion &Amp; Editorial), Manila Bulletin; July 19, 2002
Decorative Bodies: The Significance of Convicts’ Tattoos, Journal of Australian Studies; June 1, 1997; Kent, David
Commanding Men: Masculinities and the Convict System, Journal of Australian Studies; March 1, 1998; Evans, Raymond Thorpe, Bill
The Origins of Irish Convict Transportation to New South Wales.(Book Review), The Historian; June 22, 2003; Hayden, Albert A.;
Beer and Fighting: Some Aspects of Male Convict Leisure in Van Diemen’s Land, Journal of Australian Studies; December 1, 1999; Hindmarsh, Bruce
Bushwhacker breeding is cooler than convict chic, Scotland on Sunday (Edinburgh, Scotland); December 16, 2001; MARK CHIPPERFIELD
‘The valley of swells’: ‘special’ or ‘educated’ convicts on the Wellington Valley settlement, 1827-1830., History Australia; June 1, 2006; Roberts, David Andrew
Babette Smith, Australia’s Birthstain: the startling legacy of the convict era.(Book review), Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society; June 1, 2009; Liston, Carol
ANCESTRY.COM LAUNCHES RECORDS OF AUSTRALIAN CONVICTS., Worldwide Databases; September 1, 2007
Governor Macquarie’s Job Descriptions and the Bureaucratic Control of the Convict Labour Process, Labour History – A Journal of Labour and Social History; May 1, 2009; Robbins, Bill
Well-Behaved Life Convicts Allowed Entry into Semi-Open Jail, Hindustan Times (New Delhi, India); January 22, 2013
Convict Lease System in relation to Crime and Race
Convict Lease System is included in the Encyclopedia of Race and Crime (1), beginning with: The Thirteenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, while effectively ending slavery, eventually authorized the use of freed slaves for involuntary servitude with the following clause: “Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted , shall exist within the United States or any place subject to their jurisdiction” (italics added). Under the convict lease system implemented in the U.S. South after the Civil War, the state took advantage of this clause by leasing prison inmates to private companies that used them as forced laborers. This system of enforced labor ran from 1865 to 1920. This section examines the convict lease system in the United States that emerged after the abolition of legal slavery. A brief history of the convict lease system is discussed, as is the social context surrounding its development.
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Notes and References
- Entry about Convict Lease System in the Encyclopedia of Race and Crime
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