Victoria M Nagy
Biographic Data
| ID | 4437723 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Victoria M Nagy |
| GIVEN NAMES | Victoria M |
| FAMILY NAME | Nagy |
| SIGNATURE | NAGY V M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Tasmania |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2041-1080 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Crime or Failure of Integrity: What is the Problem of Contract Cheating Represented to be in Australia
Contract cheating is a complex, growing, and now criminalised phenomenon, engendering debate and scholarship across academia, politics, law enforcement, and the community. Using Carol Bacchi’s (2012) “What’s the problem represented to be?” framework, this paper interrogates whether cheating is characterised in social, academic, and policy discourses as a problem of individual students’ academic integrity or reveals a more concerning, systematic c…
Life courses, crime and global south migrants: Intercolonial transportation in the Australian historical context
Team and Transformative Teaching in the Criminology Classroom
Since 2021 the level 300 unit at the University of Tasmania, "Working With Offenders", has been offered as a winter-school intensive. This unit is predominantly undertaken by students studying in the Bachelor of Arts specialising in criminology, but also includes students studying law, psychology, social work, meaning there is a very diverse student cohort. This unit is designed to introduce students to the issues and processes associated with wo…
Historical criminology and colonialism
Historical criminology, developing over the last few decades as a defined field of inquiry, has had a recent renaissance, resulting in the publication of leading texts, edited collections and scholarship, setting agendas for its methodologies and impact. We discuss the epistemological and methodological focus of this body of literature, which has been primarily centred on class-based historical criminal justice studies of Britain and the United S…
An Uncommon Hangman: The Life and Deaths of Robert ‘Nosey Bob’ Howard
Citizen Social Science in the Classroom: Criminology Students’ Perceptions of Prisoner Records
Inspired by the longer established citizen science, citizen social science projects in the classroom can have positive effects on student engagement and learning outcomes. This article reports on the incorporation of a citizen social science assessment task requiring students to undertake the transcription of digitised historical prisoner records in Criminology and History courses at two Australian universities in 2020. Analysis of student respon…
Meaningful crime prevention or just an ‘Act’: Discourse Analysis of the criminalisation of contract cheating services in Australia
Contract cheating remains a significant problem for universities and higher education (HE) generally, both within Australia and internationally. In 2020, the Australian Federal Government passed legislation establishing a new criminal offence, criminalising the provision or advertisement of academic cheating services by individuals and businesses. This legislation represents the Australian Government’s formal commitment to a criminal justice resp…
Sexual victimisation histories and rehabilitation in female prisoners: A Tasmanian case study
The Tasmanian female prison population has increased by 57% since 2000. Sexual victimisation is one of the most reported forms of victimisation among female prisoners in Australia. This article explores how seven Tasmanian correctional staff and program facilitators understand the relationship between sexual victimisation, offending and rehabilitation pathways and makes recommendations about how correctional systems can better manage practices th…
Rational choice or strain? A criminological examination of contract cheating
Contract cheating is a significant problem, both within and outside the academy. Responses have largely focused on punitive consequences for tertiary students, and in 2019 the Australian Federal Government proposed legislation that would formally criminalise contract cheating both for the buyer and the seller. Although contract cheating has the hallmarks of white-collar crime, criminological examination of this form (and arguably all forms) of ac…
The Health and Medical Needs of Victoria's Older Female Prisoners, 1860–1920
Victoria M. Nagy, Alana J. Piper, The Health and Medical Needs of Victoria's Older Female Prisoners, 1860–1920, Health and History, Vol. 22, No. 1, History, Medicine, and Incarceration (2020), pp. 67-85
Women, Old Age, and Imprisonment in Victoria, Australia 1860–1920
Older and elderly women predominantly appear in criminological literature as victims of crime. However, a not insignificant portion of those imprisoned, both past and present, were women aged more than 50 years. Even so, research into older and elderly imprisoned women is lacking, in Australia and around the world. Historical prisoner records offer a possibility for beginning to rectify the lack of knowledge about this cohort. Using the Central R…
Homicide in Victoria: Female Perpetrators of Murder and Manslaughter, 1860 to 1920
Records from the Central Register of Female Prisoners permit a longitudinal analysis of ninety-five women convicted of murder and manslaughter in Victoria between 1860 and 1920. The data show the similarities and differences between the women convicted of these homicide offenses. An examination of the women's socioeconomic profiles, occupations, ages, migrations, and victims reveals the links between their crimes and their punishment
Risk Factors and Pathways to Imprisonment among Incarcerated Women in Victoria, 1860–1920
Criminological studies have found that men’s and women’s pathways to imprisonment differ, with risk factors such as substance abuse, mental illness, socioeconomic circumstances and past victimisation more strongly associated with female prisoners. However, limited quantitative or longitudinal research exists on how the risk factors associated with female offending may have shifted over time. This article investigates the criminal careers and path…
Versatile Offending: Criminal Careers of Female Prisoners in Australia, 1860-1920
The use of longitudinal data from the criminal records of a sample of 6,042 female prisoners in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Victoria reveals limitations in the traditional method of examining criminality within specific offense categories. Investigations devoted exclusively to particular categories of women's offenses potentially obscures the extent to which women resorted to multiple forms of offending. Such versatile activity challenges c…
Legalising Sex Work: The Regulation of ‘Risk’ in Australian Prostitution Law Reform
Debates about the legalisation of sex work in Australia have tended to focus on the ‘risks’ of sex work that need managing and regulating. However, in some states, the framing of these risks has been dominated by socio-cultural and political concerns, such as morality and suburban serenity, rather than the concerns of workers in the industry. In this article we discuss how the risks of sex work have been envisaged and debated in two case study st…
Motherhood, Stereotypes, and South Park
Mothers are a constant staple of laughs for the adult, cartoon audience. Laughing at the maternal has negative connotations— after all, knowing the sacrifices that many mothers make for their child
Versatile Offending: Criminal Careers of Female Prisoners in Australia, 1860-1920
The use of longitudinal data from the criminal records of a sample of 6,042 female prisoners in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Victoria reveals limitations in the traditional method of examining criminality within specific offense categories. Investigations devoted exclusively to particular categories of women's offenses potentially obscures the extent to which women resorted to multiple forms of offending. Such versatile activity challenges c…
Historical criminology and colonialism
Historical criminology, developing over the last few decades as a defined field of inquiry, has had a recent renaissance, resulting in the publication of leading texts, edited collections and scholarship, setting agendas for its methodologies and impact. We discuss the epistemological and methodological focus of this body of literature, which has been primarily centred on class-based historical criminal justice studies of Britain and the United S…
Homicide in Victoria: Female Perpetrators of Murder and Manslaughter, 1860 to 1920
Records from the Central Register of Female Prisoners permit a longitudinal analysis of ninety-five women convicted of murder and manslaughter in Victoria between 1860 and 1920. The data show the similarities and differences between the women convicted of these homicide offenses. An examination of the women's socioeconomic profiles, occupations, ages, migrations, and victims reveals the links between their crimes and their punishment
Motherhood, Stereotypes, and South Park
Mothers are a constant staple of laughs for the adult, cartoon audience. Laughing at the maternal has negative connotations— after all, knowing the sacrifices that many mothers make for their child
Motherhood, Stereotypes, and South Park
Mothers are a constant staple of laughs for the adult, cartoon audience. Laughing at the maternal has negative connotations— after all, knowing the sacrifices that many mothers make for their child
Legalising Sex Work: The Regulation of ‘Risk’ in Australian Prostitution Law Reform
Debates about the legalisation of sex work in Australia have tended to focus on the ‘risks’ of sex work that need managing and regulating. However, in some states, the framing of these risks has been dominated by socio-cultural and political concerns, such as morality and suburban serenity, rather than the concerns of workers in the industry. In this article we discuss how the risks of sex work have been envisaged and debated in two case study st…
Versatile Offending: Criminal Careers of Female Prisoners in Australia, 1860-1920
The use of longitudinal data from the criminal records of a sample of 6,042 female prisoners in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Victoria reveals limitations in the traditional method of examining criminality within specific offense categories. Investigations devoted exclusively to particular categories of women's offenses potentially obscures the extent to which women resorted to multiple forms of offending. Such versatile activity challenges c…
Risk Factors and Pathways to Imprisonment among Incarcerated Women in Victoria, 1860–1920
Criminological studies have found that men’s and women’s pathways to imprisonment differ, with risk factors such as substance abuse, mental illness, socioeconomic circumstances and past victimisation more strongly associated with female prisoners. However, limited quantitative or longitudinal research exists on how the risk factors associated with female offending may have shifted over time. This article investigates the criminal careers and path…
The Health and Medical Needs of Victoria's Older Female Prisoners, 1860–1920
Victoria M. Nagy, Alana J. Piper, The Health and Medical Needs of Victoria's Older Female Prisoners, 1860–1920, Health and History, Vol. 22, No. 1, History, Medicine, and Incarceration (2020), pp. 67-85
Women, Old Age, and Imprisonment in Victoria, Australia 1860–1920
Older and elderly women predominantly appear in criminological literature as victims of crime. However, a not insignificant portion of those imprisoned, both past and present, were women aged more than 50 years. Even so, research into older and elderly imprisoned women is lacking, in Australia and around the world. Historical prisoner records offer a possibility for beginning to rectify the lack of knowledge about this cohort. Using the Central R…
Homicide in Victoria: Female Perpetrators of Murder and Manslaughter, 1860 to 1920
Records from the Central Register of Female Prisoners permit a longitudinal analysis of ninety-five women convicted of murder and manslaughter in Victoria between 1860 and 1920. The data show the similarities and differences between the women convicted of these homicide offenses. An examination of the women's socioeconomic profiles, occupations, ages, migrations, and victims reveals the links between their crimes and their punishment
Rational choice or strain? A criminological examination of contract cheating
Contract cheating is a significant problem, both within and outside the academy. Responses have largely focused on punitive consequences for tertiary students, and in 2019 the Australian Federal Government proposed legislation that would formally criminalise contract cheating both for the buyer and the seller. Although contract cheating has the hallmarks of white-collar crime, criminological examination of this form (and arguably all forms) of ac…
Meaningful crime prevention or just an ‘Act’: Discourse Analysis of the criminalisation of contract cheating services in Australia
Contract cheating remains a significant problem for universities and higher education (HE) generally, both within Australia and internationally. In 2020, the Australian Federal Government passed legislation establishing a new criminal offence, criminalising the provision or advertisement of academic cheating services by individuals and businesses. This legislation represents the Australian Government’s formal commitment to a criminal justice resp…
Sexual victimisation histories and rehabilitation in female prisoners: A Tasmanian case study
The Tasmanian female prison population has increased by 57% since 2000. Sexual victimisation is one of the most reported forms of victimisation among female prisoners in Australia. This article explores how seven Tasmanian correctional staff and program facilitators understand the relationship between sexual victimisation, offending and rehabilitation pathways and makes recommendations about how correctional systems can better manage practices th…
Citizen Social Science in the Classroom: Criminology Students’ Perceptions of Prisoner Records
Inspired by the longer established citizen science, citizen social science projects in the classroom can have positive effects on student engagement and learning outcomes. This article reports on the incorporation of a citizen social science assessment task requiring students to undertake the transcription of digitised historical prisoner records in Criminology and History courses at two Australian universities in 2020. Analysis of student respon…
Team and Transformative Teaching in the Criminology Classroom
Since 2021 the level 300 unit at the University of Tasmania, "Working With Offenders", has been offered as a winter-school intensive. This unit is predominantly undertaken by students studying in the Bachelor of Arts specialising in criminology, but also includes students studying law, psychology, social work, meaning there is a very diverse student cohort. This unit is designed to introduce students to the issues and processes associated with wo…
Historical criminology and colonialism
Historical criminology, developing over the last few decades as a defined field of inquiry, has had a recent renaissance, resulting in the publication of leading texts, edited collections and scholarship, setting agendas for its methodologies and impact. We discuss the epistemological and methodological focus of this body of literature, which has been primarily centred on class-based historical criminal justice studies of Britain and the United S…
An Uncommon Hangman: The Life and Deaths of Robert ‘Nosey Bob’ Howard
Crime or Failure of Integrity: What is the Problem of Contract Cheating Represented to be in Australia
Contract cheating is a complex, growing, and now criminalised phenomenon, engendering debate and scholarship across academia, politics, law enforcement, and the community. Using Carol Bacchi’s (2012) “What’s the problem represented to be?” framework, this paper interrogates whether cheating is characterised in social, academic, and policy discourses as a problem of individual students’ academic integrity or reveals a more concerning, systematic c…
Life courses, crime and global south migrants: Intercolonial transportation in the Australian historical context
Criminology (13 works) · Psychology (12 works) · Sociology (12 works) · Political science (9 works) · Law (7 works) · Historical Economic and Social Studies (5 works) · Medicine (5 works) · Australian History and Society (4 works) · Criminal justice (4 works) · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis (4 works)