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Figures of Criminality in Indonesia, the Philippines, and Colonial Vietnam /

Figures of Criminality in Indonesia, the Philippines, and Colonial Vietnam / ed. by Vicente L. Rafael. - 1 online resource (259 p.)

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION: CRIMINALITY AND ITS OTHERS -- FROM DARKNESS TO LIGHT: OPTICS OF POLICING IN LATE-COLONIAL NETHERLANDS EAST INDIES -- COLONIAL CRIMINALS IN JAVA, 1870-1910 -- THE USUAL SUSPECTS: NARDONG PUTIK, DON PEPE OYSON, AND ROBIN HOOD -- SURVEILLANCE AND TERRITORIALITY IN BANDUNG -- "WHO WILL SAVE Us FROM THE LAW'?": THE CRIMINAL STATE AND THE ILLEGAL ALIEN IN POST-1986 PHILIPPINES -- THE HISTORY OF THE MODERN PRISON AND THE CASE OF INDOCHINA -- THE CRIMINAL REGIME: CRIMINAL PROCESS IN INDONESIA -- OPEN SECRETS: EXCERPTS FROM CONVERSATIONS WITH A JAVANESE LAWYER, AND A COMMENT -- A NEW CRIMINAL TYPE IN JAKARTA: THE NATIONALIZATION OF "DEATH" -- FLYING A KITE: THE CRIMES OF PRAMOEDYA ANANTA TOER -- NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS

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A complex examination of "criminality" and "the criminal" as constructs and active presences in Southeast Asia. Contributors explore such themes as surveillance, incarceration, law and custom, secrecy, and corruption. A fascinating study of power and subversion in the modern postcolonial nation-state. Contributors include Daniel S. Lev, Henk M. J. Maier, Rudolf Mrazek, James T. Siegel, and others.


Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.


In English.

9781501718878

10.7591/9781501718878 doi


Crime--Indonesia--Case studies.
Crime--Philippines--Case studies.
Crime--Vietnam--Case studies.
Criminals--Indonesia--Biography.
Criminals--Philippines--Biography.
Criminals--Vietnam--Biography.
Asian Studies.
Legal History & Studies.
Sociology & Social Science.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology.

HV7375.F53 1999

364.109598092