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2 results foundAuthor: Biddulph, Sarah Title: Punishments in the Post Re-Education Through Labour World: Questions About Minor Crime in China Summary: As controversial as it was during its lifetime, the administrative detention power of Re-education through Labour (RETL) after its abolition has continued to create waves in the Chinese system of punishments. RETL was abolished without putting a clear alternative power or powers in its place. In the post-RETL world a number of basic questions about the scope and structure of China's system of punishments remain unresolved. What gaps, if any, has abolition of RETL left in the system of punishments? If these gaps exist, what measures, if any, will fill them? This paper first examines the question of whether there is a gap in the system of punishments left by abolition of RETL, and if so what it looks like. It goes on to discuss reforms in criminal and administrative law and debates circulating around the two concepts of minor crime and security punishments. Details: Melbourne: Melbourne Law School, 2015. 26p. Source: Internet Resource: U of Melbourne Legal Studies Research Paper No. 719 : Accessed October 8, 2015 at: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2664864 Year: 2015 Country: China URL: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2664864 Shelf Number: 136965 Keywords: Hard LaborMisdemeanorsPunishment |
Author: Thompson, Darla Jean Title: Circuits of Containment: Iron Collars, Incarceration and the Infrastructure of Slavery Summary: This dissertation documents the development of New Orleans and Louisiana from 1805-1861. I argue that iron collars emerged in the nineteenth century as technologies of torture, control, coercion, commodity production, and distribution. The use of iron collars by enslavers, in conjunction with chains, jails, the state penitentiary, and forced labor on municipal and state public works shows how technologies shaped enslaved peoples lives as they were captured, contained, and forced to be productive units of labor. By combining insights from scholarship in the fields of US slavery and technology, I argue that enslavers innovative uses of these technologies made the process of extracting labor from enslaved people more efficient and productive. By focusing on the punishing labor practices enslaved people endured in iron collars, jails, chain gangs, forced public works labor, and penitentiaries I show how the old and the new were used to "improve" enslaved people in order to keep them productive and profitable. In Chapter One, I examine the material experience of slaves wearing iron collars, including those with obstructions such as prongs, branches and bells. In Chapter Two, I examine the practices of incarceration in relationship to legislators' rhetoric about constructing a seamless economic circuit exploiting slave labor from plantation to prison factory in order to clothe an independent South. In Chapter Three, I examine how enslaved people who were either privately or publicly owned were used for to build and municipal and state infrastructure. State and city owned slaves, captured and jailed runaway slaves, and convicts from the state penitentiary labored to build roads, levees and clear rivers and bayous. Through these practices, enslaved people's lives embodied hard labor, blurring lines between enslavement and incarceration, as they were loaned, rented, borrowed, and bought, captured, and recaptured through spaces of punishment and labor in support of building and maintaining the infrastructure necessary for the production and distribution of commodities. Together, a range of technical practices were socially and economically shaped and produced through networks of people, objects, knowledge and ideology forming a socio-technical system for the control and containment of enslaved people as they struggled to be free. Details: Ithaca, NY: Cornell University, 2014. 233p. Source: Internet Resource: Dissertation: Accessed February 27, 2018 at: https://ecommons.cornell.edu/bitstream/handle/1813/36009/djt36.pdf?sequence=1 Year: 2014 Country: United States URL: https://ecommons.cornell.edu/bitstream/handle/1813/36009/djt36.pdf?sequence=1 Shelf Number: 149265 Keywords: Chain GangsForced LaborHard LaborHuman Rights AbusesSlavery |