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Figures of Criminality in Indonesia, the Philippines, and Colonial Vietnam (1999)

Figures of Criminality in Indonesia, the Philippines, and Colonial Vietnam (1999)

American Council of Learned Societies

Year: 1999
Authors: American Council of Learned Societies
Publishers: SEAP Publications
Pages: 276
Print type: BOOK

Description:

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.