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What are some social and physical impacts of convicts in Western Australia?

What are some positive and negative social and physical impacts of convicts in western australia? Examples - Social: Having an unsafe community with criminals wandering around Physical: Land was cleared faster and more effectively, damaging local wildlife.

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1. Heres some information about your topic some of these already have conclusions, but some need you to make a conclusion of them. Good Luck. Western Australian Convicts Impacts Before 1915 1 in 4 convicts were women Between 815 and 1840 1 in 8 convicts were women After 1840 1 in 5 were women 59% of women convicts were from Ireland Most ancestors of these convicts have Irish ancestry. (19, Jupp) Women Convict Statistics are more reliable because they received more bureaucratic attention (30, Jupp) “many Irish women convicted of arson in the years after the Famine had committed their offense deliberately and were using transportation as a form of emigration and family reunion. Overall, Irish transportation was an important stimulus to free emigration.” (450, Jupp) Page 21 of Jupp's book talks about the fact that most of the convicts had marketable skills such as brick layers, bootmakers, blacksmiths, clerks and ploughmen implying that most of the convicts were workers at some point. The convicts general working ability was similar to the british urban working class with“Some 44 per cent had worked in 'skilled' jobs and another 23 per cent in 'semi-skilled' occupations. Some of these skills were as irrelevant to the colonial economy as they were fast becoming to industrial England, for instance handloom weavers. But many more artisans, especially those who had been employed in the construction trades, possessed work experience of great value to building the social infrastructure essential to colonial development. “ (21, Jupp)