The result of all of these factors is that there were in fact well over 200 crimes that could result in a sentence of transportation (Bruce Kercher, An Unruly Child. Take, for example, the case of Henry and Susannah Kable, who were transported to Australia after a prison turnkey begged for their lives and drummed up enough support for people to donate a variety of goods for them in their new, Australian lives. Over time, mostly through social opposition, the law was gradually reformed throughout the Nineteenth Century, but in the meantime, convict transportation was often used as a way to reduce prison congestion (which was soaring) and commute death sentences which saw public appeal. The result was a very formulaic, strict approach to the law that saw capital punishment reach staggering new numbers. At the time, there were only 12 superior court judges with a case load of 10 000 per year, each. Given the laissez-faire approach to provision of social services, the population of urban poor skyrocketed, as did petty crime.
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