Prisons in the Late Ottoman Empire

Microcosms of Modernity

Kent F. Schull (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

240 Seiten

2014
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
978-0-7486-4173-4 (ISBN)

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Contrary to the stereotypical images of torture, narcotics and brutal sexual abuse traditionally associated with Ottoman or 'Turkish' prisons, Kent Schull argues that, during the Second Constitutional Period (1908–1918), they played a crucial role in attempts to transform the empire. 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.

Kent F. Schull is an Assistant Professor of Ottoman and modern Middle East history at Binghamton University. He has graduate degrees in Jewish Studies (Oxon) and in Ottoman and modern Middle East history (UCLA) and is a twice Fulbright scholar to Turkey. His publications include several articles, scholarly contributions, and a forthcoming co-edited volume on Ottoman sociolegal history and identity.

List of Illustrations; List of Abbreviations; Note on Transliteration and Pronunciation; Preface; Introduction; 1. Ottoman Criminal Justice & the Transformation of Islamic Criminal Law and Punishment in the Age of Modernity, 1839-1922; 2. Prison Reform in the Late Ottoman Empire: the State’s Perspectives; 3. Counting the Incarcerated: Knowledge, Power & the Prison Population; 4. The Spatialisation of Incarceration: Reforms, Response & the Reality of Prison Life; 5. Disciplining the Disciplinarians: Combating Corruption and Abuse through the Professionalisation of the Prison Cadre; 6. Creating Juvenile Delinquents: Redefining Childhood in the late Ottoman Empire; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index

Reihe/Serie	Edinburgh Studies on the Ottoman Empire
Zusatzinfo	6 black and white illustrations, 10 black and white tables
Verlagsort	Edinburgh
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	500 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Islam
ISBN-10	0-7486-4173-4 / 0748641734
ISBN-13	978-0-7486-4173-4 / 9780748641734
Zustand	Neuware