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Asia


Frank Dikötter. Crime, Punishment and the Prison in Modern China. New York: Columbia University Press. 2002. Pp. xvi, 441. $38.00.
After studying race, eugenics, and sexuality, Frank Dikötter offers an account of the birth of the prison in late imperial and republican China. This is a field into which very few researchers have ventured, generally by focusing on law and regulation rather than on real practice. Thanks to painstaking work in the archives, Dikötter is able to usher his readers into the Chinese prison. He follows individual inmates and provides many details on their daily life, social and educational backgrounds, health, and sanitary conditions. He also analyzes the introduction of new corpus of knowledge as the sciences of crime (criminology) and punishment (penology) developed from the 1920s on. . . .
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