Prisons in the late Ottoman Empire : microcosms of modernity / / Kent F. Schull [[electronic resource]]

• Autore: Schull Kent F.
• Pubblicazione: Edinburgh University Press, 2014; Edinburgh : , : Edinburgh University Press, , 2014
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xiii, 226 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Disciplina: 365.956109041
• Soggetto topico: Prisons - Turkey - History - 20th century; Prisons - Turkey - History - 19th century
• Soggetto non controllato: History; civilisation; penal reform; Ottoman Empire; Ottoman prisons; Turkish prisons; Middle East history; defensive modernisation; Istanbul; Sharia
• Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-216) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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. It was within these prisons' walls that many of the pressing questions of Ottoman modernity were worked out; questions of administrative centralisation, Islamic criminal law and punishment, gender and childhood, prisoner rehabilitation, bureaucracy, identity and social engineering. By juxtaposing them with the reality of prison life, Schull investigates how state-mandated reforms affected the lives of local prison officials and inmates. He shows how these individuals actively conformed to, contested and manipulated new penal policies and practices for their own benefit.
• Titolo autorizzato: Prisons in the late Ottoman Empire
• ISBN: 1-4744-0088-4; 0-7486-7769-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910255446603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II