Crime and its Punishment in Victorian Hong Kong
In 1842, the Treaty of Nanking gave the island of Hong Kong to the British Crown. The new settlement immediately attracted a population of poor Chinese who flocked there in the hope of making a better living than on the mainland. Not surprisingly, crime was rampant on the fringe on the new colonial...
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openedition-oai:revues.org:rfcb_1613 https://doi.org/10.4000/rfcb.1613 urn:doi:10.4000/rfcb.1613 en https://journals.openedition.org/rfcb/1613 2017-12-14T01:00:00Z info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess article info:eu-repo/semantics/article urn:handle:20.500.13089/k16x https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ Crime and its Punishment in Victorian Hong Kong Revue française de civilisation britannique CRECIB - Centre de recherche et d'études en civilisation britannique info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/issn/2429-4373 info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/issn/0248-9015 URI:https://journals.openedition.org/rfcb Le Pichon, Alain In 1842, the Treaty of Nanking gave the island of Hong Kong to the British Crown. The new settlement immediately attracted a population of poor Chinese who flocked there in the hope of making a better living than on the mainland. Not surprisingly, crime was rampant on the fringe on the new colonial city, and offenders had to be tracked down and punished. This paper investigates the nature of the crimes committed in Hong Kong during the Victorian period, the evolving panoply of punishments designed to rein them in, and the way in which both the common law and the colonial governments adapted to fight types of criminal activity they had never met before. En 1842, le Traité de Nankin cédait l’île de Hong Kong à la couronne britannique. La nouvelle colonie attira aussitôt une population de Chinois pauvres qui s’y installèrent en grand nombre dans l’espoir d’une vie meilleure qu’en Chine. Comme il fallait s’y attendre, le crime se développa rapidement sur les marges de la cité coloniale, et il fallut repérer et punir les criminels. La présente étude s’attache à recenser et à comprendre la nature des crimes commis à Hong Kong pendant la période victorienne, la panoplie des châtiments destinés à les punir, et la manière dont la common law et les gouvernments coloniaux s’adaptèrent dans leur combat contre des formes de criminalité qu’ils n’avaient auparavant jamais rencontrées. |
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In 1842, the Treaty of Nanking gave the island of Hong Kong to the British Crown. The new settlement immediately attracted a population of poor Chinese who flocked there in the hope of making a better living than on the mainland. Not surprisingly, crime was rampant on the fringe on the new colonial city, and offenders had to be tracked down and punished. This paper investigates the nature of the crimes committed in Hong Kong during the Victorian period, the evolving panoply of punishments designed to rein them in, and the way in which both the common law and the colonial governments adapted to fight types of criminal activity they had never met before. |
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Crime and its Punishment in Victorian Hong Kong |
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