Foreword  1. Crime and Empire: Introduction  2. The Changes in Policing and Penal Policy in Nineteenth-century Europe  3. Explaining the History of Punishment  4. Crimes of Violence, Crimes of Empire? by Mark Finnane  5. Colonialism and the Rule of Law  6. Colonial History and Theories of the Present: Some Reflections upon Penal History and Theory  7. Crime, the Legal Archive, and Postcolonial Histories  8. Traces and Transmissions: Techno-scientific Symbolism in Early Twentieth-century Policing  9. The English Model? Policing in Late Nineteenth-century Tasmania  10. The Growth of Crime and Crime Control in Developing Towns: Timaru and Crewe, 1850-1920  11. (Re)presenting Scandal: Charles Reade's Advocacy of Professionalism within the English Prison System  12. 'Saving our Unfortunate Sisters'?: Establishing the First Separate Prison for Women in New Zealand  13. Maori Police Personnel and the Rangitiratanga Discourse  14. 'To Make the Precedent Fit the Crime': British Legal Responses to Sati in Early Nineteenth-century North India  15. 'Everyday Life' in Boer Women's Testimonies of the Concentration Camps of the South African War, 1899-1902  16. Codification of the Criminal Law: The Australasian Parliamentary Experience