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ISBN-13
9789888528127
Book Title
Crime, Justice and Punishment in Colonial Hong Kong
ISBN
9789888528127
Subject Area
History
Publication Name
Crime, Justice and Punishment in Colonial Hong Kong : Central Police Station, Central Magistracy and Victoria Gaol
Publisher
Hong KONG University Press
Item Length
9.5 in
Subject
Asia / China
Publication Year
2021
Type
Textbook
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Item Height
0.9 in
Author
Christopher Munn, May Holdsworth
Item Weight
0 Oz
Item Width
7.5 in
Number of Pages
340 Pages

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Standing close together in a compound overlooking Victoria Harbour, the Central Police Station, Central Magistracy, and Victoria Prison were a bastion of British colonial power and a symbol of security, law, and punishment. The magistracy administered a form of cheap summary justice heavily adapted to the needs of colonial Hong Kong, which led to well over a million predominantly Chinese people being sentenced between 1841 and 1941. In the overcrowded and unsanitary Victoria Prison, the regime vacillated uneasily between a belief in harsh deterrent punishment and an optimistic faith in reform and rehabilitation. Today, those monumental buildings still stand, forming Hong Kong's "Tai Kwun" complex, an international arts and entertainment hub. Richly illustrated and informed by a wealth of sources, Crime, Justice, and Punishment in Colonial Hong Kong revisits the Tai Kwun complex's past by offering a vivid account of those three institutions from 1841 to the late twentieth century and telling the stories of people whose lives intersected with them, including captains superintendent, and magistrates, jailers and constables, thieves and ruffians, hawkers and street boys, down-and-outs, and prostitutes, gamblers, debtors, and beggars--the guilty as well as the innocent.

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Hong KONG University Press
ISBN-10
9888528122
ISBN-13
9789888528127
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Number of Pages
340 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Crime, Justice and Punishment in Colonial Hong Kong : Central Police Station, Central Magistracy and Victoria Gaol
Publication Year
2021
Subject
Asia / China
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
History
Author
Christopher Munn, May Holdsworth
Format
Hardcover

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Item Height
0.9 in
Item Weight
0 Oz
Item Length
9.5 in
Item Width
7.5 in

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Table of Content
INTRODUCTION PART ONE CENTRAL POLICE STATION 1 Barrack Block and Headquarters Block 2 A Colonial Police Force 3 Turning Points PART TWO CENTRAL MAGISTRACY 4 Building the Magistracy, 1847-1914 5 Magistrates, Society and the Law in Colonial Hong Kong 6 One Million Cases: Glimpses of the Magistracy, 1841-1941 PART THREE VICTORIA GAOL 7 A Relic of Victorian Prison Design 8 'The Question of Insufficient Accommodation' 9 'Hope Dies!' -- Entering the Gaol 10 Punishment, Resistance and Release A Timeline of Key Events Appendix Select Bibliography Illustration Credits Notes Index
Copyright Date
2020

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