232 Pages
by
Routledge
232 Pages
by
Routledge
226 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book provides an account of the distinctive way in which penal power developed outside the metropolitan centre. Proposing a radical revision of the Foucauldian thesis that criminological knowledge emerged in the service of a new form of power – discipline – that had inserted itself into the very centre of punishment, it argues that Foucault’s alignment of sovereign, disciplinary and... Read more
Preface 1. Introduction 2. Colonial Governmentality 3. Immanence and Discovery: Thugs and Native Subjectivity 4. Between History and Nature: Visions of Native Crime and Social Marginality 5. The Temptations of Domination: Framing Disorder 6. Liberal Ontologies: Fashioning the Criminal Tribe 7. The State as Practice: Establishing a Modern Milieu 8. Penal Power and Colonial Rule
Biography
Mark Brown is an Honorary Senior Fellow in the School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Melbourne, and a Visiting Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Criminal Policy Research, Birkbeck, University of London.
