Penal Power and Colonial Rule

by Mark Brown, Brown Mark, Mark Brown

Book Overview

This book provides an account of the distinctive way in which penal power developed outside the metropolitan centre. Proposing a radical revision of the Foucauldian thesis that criminological knowledge emerged in the service of a new form of power - discipline - that had inserted itself into the very centre of punishment, it argues that Foucault's alignment of sovereign, disciplinary and governmental power will need to be reread and rebalanced...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138944815
• ISBN13: 9781138944817
• Release Date: July 2015
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 218 Pages
• Weight: 0.73 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"