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2018
Although Tocqueville and Beaumont acknowledge the political advantage of penal colonies in deporting prisoners far from society, because it is appealing to the masses, they argue that the execution of penal colonies is problematic in execution and maintenance. It would be proportionally unjust for prisoners if used widely across many classifications of
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Although Tocqueville and Beaumont acknowledge the political advantage of penal colonies in deporting prisoners far from society, because it is appealing to the masses, they argue that the execution of penal colonies is problematic in execution and maintenance. It would be proportionally unjust for prisoners if used widely across many classifications of
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Journal of Australian Studies, 2000
What are the periodicities of remembrance shared with others? Writing in the final volume of Les Lieux de memoire,Pierre Nora identifies two primary forms of commemorative time: that of the centenary,'voluntary, deliberate, impossible either to avoid or to manage', and that of the generation,'involuntary and even unconscious, uncontrollable'. These are
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What are the periodicities of remembrance shared with others? Writing in the final volume of Les Lieux de memoire,Pierre Nora identifies two primary forms of commemorative time: that of the centenary,'voluntary, deliberate, impossible either to avoid or to manage', and that of the generation,'involuntary and even unconscious, uncontrollable'. These are
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Hastings Center Report, 2019
AbstractMore than just a jail, Rikers has become a site of shifting discourse on punishment and justice in the United States. In the book Life and Death in Rikers Island, Homer Venters argues that the systematic failures of jails to provide appropriate safety and care constitute human rights violations and public health risks.
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AbstractMore than just a jail, Rikers has become a site of shifting discourse on punishment and justice in the United States. In the book Life and Death in Rikers Island, Homer Venters argues that the systematic failures of jails to provide appropriate safety and care constitute human rights violations and public health risks.
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Leiden Journal of International Law, 2007
Kafka's short story In the Penal Colony depicts the visit of a European traveller to a cruel penal colony. The author uses the story to explore current issues concerning torture. Her particular focus is on the interrelation between torture and empire, and on the limits of humanitarian reform.
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Kafka's short story In the Penal Colony depicts the visit of a European traveller to a cruel penal colony. The author uses the story to explore current issues concerning torture. Her particular focus is on the interrelation between torture and empire, and on the limits of humanitarian reform.
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2009
‘It is a remarkable apparatus,’ said the officer to the enquiring traveller,* surveying the apparatus with some admiration in his eyes, though it must have been long familiar to him.
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‘It is a remarkable apparatus,’ said the officer to the enquiring traveller,* surveying the apparatus with some admiration in his eyes, though it must have been long familiar to him.
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Penal Identities in Russian Prison Colonies
Punishment & Society, 2004This article explores imprisonment in contemporary Russia. Throughout the 20th century prisoners were central to the maintenance of the Soviet Union through forced labour and political correction that operated within a centralized system of management.
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Island Colony and the Penal Settlement
2010In its initial two decades (the 1860s and 1870s), the British had opened the penal colony on an experimental basis and the difficulties that the Settlement officers faced in settling the Andamans had done little to suppress the misgivings regarding the sustainability of the venture.
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