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Seeking to redress the traditional focus of historical criminology on the West and Global North, Imperial Crime and Punishment brings a fresh perspective to this burgeoning field by drawing instead on imperial contexts.
Chapters focus on the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, which witnessed the development of the recognisably ‘modern’ institutions of the criminal justice system, including policing and institutions of punishment and care. The collection broadly covers punishment and its institutions, enforcement, a reflection on methodological considerations for digital crime history, and more. Examining imperial contexts such as India and Australia beyond their immediate geographical context, authors highlight the global and imperial context including the movement of ideas between the British state and colonies, the international dimension of global punishments, and movement of labour in this period.
Offering empirically-based studies from the archives in order to understand and question beliefs about crime and social harm today, as well as ongoing practices both in, and outside of, the criminal justice system, Imperial Crime and Punishment provides a broad temporal and spatial scope to build the historical criminology literature and better understand and critique the world as it currently is.
This fascinating collection directly addresses the urgent need to understand crime and its control within historical and global contexts. Engaging with migration, settlement, race, policy transfer and more, its chapters reveal how the patterns and practices of crime, policing and punishment were – and are -frequently interwoven with the wider historical forces of imperialism and colonialism. This book resonates with many profound contemporary issues and deserves a wide audience amongst all who care about the future of criminal justice and social justice, as well as their pasts.
Emma D. Watkins is Associate Professor in Criminology at the University of Birmingham, UK.
Eleanor Bland is Associate Professor and Programme Lead for Criminology at Oxford Brookes University, UK.
Foreword; Barry Godfrey
Introduction; Emma D. Watkins and Eleanor Bland
Section 1. Institutions and Punishment
Chapter 1. Pauper-Emancipists: Poverty, Criminalisation and Control; Emma D. Watkins
Chapter 2. Mary Carpenter: The Transportation of Victorian Ideology and Juvenile Reform to Colonial India during the Nineteenth Century, Comparison and Contradictions; Tahaney Alghrani
Chapter 3. Challenging Colonial Myths with Archival Datasets: Cockatoo Island Prison, 1839-69; Katherine Roscoe
Section 2. Policing and Enforcement
Chapter 4. Capital, Settler Colonialism, and Police Violence In Imperial Queensland; Paul Bleakley
Chapter 5. Agents of Colonial Rule: Policing Practices in Western Australia and Queensland, and their Contemporary Legacies, c.1864-1914; Eleanor Bland
Chapter 6. Protectors and Predators: 19th Century Indigenous Bhil Policing in Company India; Nishant Gokhale
Section 3. (Un)Free Mobilities
Chapter 7. Colonial Australia and Criminal Deportation: Inter-Colonial Free Migrant Transportation; Victoria Nagy and Kristyn Harman
Chapter 8. Imperial Farbrekhers: Jewish Men and Crime in Tsarist Russia and Progressive New York City; Alex Tepperman
Reflection; David Churchill