TY - BOOK ID - 71989316 TI - Prisons in the late Ottoman Empire PY - 2014 SN - 9780748677696 9780748641734 0748641734 0748677690 1474400884 PB - Edinburgh Edinburgh University Press DB - UniCat KW - Prisons KW - History KW - Dungeons KW - Gaols KW - Penitentiaries KW - Correctional institutions KW - Imprisonment KW - Prison-industrial complex KW - Prisons - Turkey - History - 20th century KW - Prisons - Turkey - History - 19th century KW - civilisation KW - penal reform KW - Ottoman Empire KW - Ottoman prisons KW - Turkish prisons KW - Middle East history KW - defensive modernisation KW - Istanbul KW - Sharia UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:71989316 AB - The Western world stereotypically associates Ottoman or 'Turkish' prisons with images of torture, narcotics and brutal sexual behaviour. Now, Kent F. Schull argues that these prisons were actually a site of immense reform and contestation during the 19th century. It was within these prisons' walls that many of the pressing questions of Ottoman modernity were worked out; questions of administrative centralisation, Islamic criminal law and punishment, gender and childhood, prisoner rehabilitation, bureaucracy, identity and social engineering. By juxtaposing them with the reality of prison life, Schull investigates how state-mandated reforms affected the lives of local prison officials and inmates. He shows how these individuals actively conformed to, contested and manipulated new penal policies and practices for their own benefit. ER -