Gangland : the great escapes / James Morton & Susanna Lobez.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Morton, James, author.

Lobez, Susanna, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Escapes.

Fugitives from justice.

True crime stories--Australia.

True crime stories.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (234 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Carlton, Victoria : Melbourne University Press, 2018.

Summary:

Since the arrival of the First Fleet, thousands of prisoners have escaped from prison, police stations, courts, prison vans and hospitals—even dentists' chairs. They have driven, walked, pedalled, swum or sailed away from custody. Some have killed or been killed in the process; a few have gone overseas or escaped from foreign prisons, and a handful have remained at home, undetected. Gangland: The Great Escapes is filled with tall tales of crims—Ronald Ryan, Jockey Smith, Brenden Abbott, Julie Wright and Annie Davis, and many others—who have been recaptured in minutes and those who have stayed on the run.

Contents:

Intro

Title

Copyright

Contents

Introduction: The third way

1 Early bolters

2 Row the boat away

3 The killers

4 Dying with their boots on

5 Breaking out or in is (sometimes) hard to do

6 Just as deadly

7 Up and away

8 In and out of court

9 Taking hostages

10 Comers and goers

11 Again, and again, and again …

12 One step ahead

13 Staying and still out

14 The last great escapes

15 And still they try

Notes

Acknowledgements

Select bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780522870244

0522870244

OCLC:

47092572