Capital Offending: Income, Work and Crime in Australia’s Convict Era

澳大利亚目前的监狱人口中，至少有60%曾经坐过牢。相比之下，只有18%的被转移罪犯在释放后再次被监禁。该项目旨在利用罪犯在服刑期间保留的银行账户信息来衡量资本形成与判刑后结婚、移民和再定罪率之间的关系。它将特别关注技能、就业机会和资产积累在多大程度上使曾经被流放的罪犯改行。它还将改进档案搜索引擎，使公众能够访问迄今由不同机构持有的国际认可的记录组。

At least 60 per cent of Australia’s current prison population has been in prison before. By contrast a mere 18 per cent of transported convicts were re-incarcerated following release. This project aims to use information on the bank accounts maintained for convicts while under sentence to measure the relationship between capital formation and post-sentence marriage, migration and reconviction rates. It will look in particular at the extent to which skills, employment opportunities and asset accumulation enabled former transported convicts to go straight. It will also result in improved archival search engines enabling access for members of the public to internationally recognised record groups hitherto held by different institutions.