The politics of penal excess and the echo of colonial penality

Punishment & Society

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 403-423

  Brown, Mark ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

colonial India; criminal tribes; governance; penal excess; penal modernity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84993709945     PISSN: 14624745     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1462474502004004044     Document Type: Article

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