These pages provide introductions to the different datasets (document types) in the Digital Panopticon. You should review this background material in order to make sense of the records and find out how to locate the information you are looking for.
For useful contextual information on London, Australia, crime, justice and punishment between the later eighteenth and early twentieth centuries, see the Historical Background pages.
For how to search and analyse these datasets in the Digital Panopticon in order to study a range of different subjects - including women, juvenile offenders and family history - see the Research and Teaching pages.