‘A paradise for rascals’: Colonialism, punishment and the prison in Hong Kong (1841-1898)
Hong Kong was widely regarded as a colonial enclave in which the lash and the rattan were used far more frequently than in any other part of the world. This article shows that the custodial sentence never entirely superseded corporal punishment: the idea that legal sanctions should deter rather than...
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| Publicado no: | URI:https://journals.openedition.org/chs, |
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| Formato: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
| Idioma: | Anglais |
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Crime, Histoire & Sociétés
2009
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| Acesso em linha: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |