Prisons in the Late Ottoman Empire : Microcosms of Modernity /
The Western world stereotypically associates Ottoman or 'Turkish' prisons with images of torture, narcotics and brutal sexual behaviour. Now, Kent F. Schull argues that these prisons were actually a site of immense reform and contestation during the 19th century. Schull shows that prisons...
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| Lingua: | inglese |
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Edinburgh :
Edinburgh University Press,
[2014]
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| Serie: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Sommario:
- Ottoman criminal justice and the transformation of Islamic criminal law and punishment in the age of modernity, 1839-1922
- Prison reform in the late Ottoman Empire : the state's perspectives
- Counting the incarcerated : knowledge, power and the prison population
- The spatialisation of incarceration : reforms, response and the reality of prison life
- Disciplining the disciplinarians : combating corruption and abuse through the professionalisation of the prison cadre
- Creating juvenile delinquents : redefining childhood in the late Ottoman Empire.