Figures of Criminality in Indonesia, the Philippines, and Colonial Vietnam / / ed. by Vicente L. Rafael.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Archive (pre 2000) eBook Package
• MitwirkendeR: Barker, Joshua,; Hau, Caroline S.,; Lev, Daniel S.,; Maier, Hendrik M. J.,; Mrázek, Rudolf,; Nordholt, Henk Schulte,; Pemberton, John,; Rafael, Vicente L.,; Sidel, John,; Siegel, James T.,; Till, Margreet van,; Zinoman, Peter,
• HerausgeberIn: Rafael, Vicente L.,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018]; ©1999
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (259 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS --; INTRODUCTION: CRIMINALITY AND ITS OTHERS --; FROM DARKNESS TO LIGHT: OPTICS OF POLICING IN LATE-COLONIAL NETHERLANDS EAST INDIES --; COLONIAL CRIMINALS IN JAVA, 1870-1910 --; THE USUAL SUSPECTS: NARDONG PUTIK, DON PEPE OYSON, AND ROBIN HOOD --; SURVEILLANCE AND TERRITORIALITY IN BANDUNG --; "WHO WILL SAVE Us FROM THE LAW'?": THE CRIMINAL STATE AND THE ILLEGAL ALIEN IN POST-1986 PHILIPPINES --; THE HISTORY OF THE MODERN PRISON AND THE CASE OF INDOCHINA --; THE CRIMINAL REGIME: CRIMINAL PROCESS IN INDONESIA --; OPEN SECRETS: EXCERPTS FROM CONVERSATIONS WITH A JAVANESE LAWYER, AND A COMMENT --; A NEW CRIMINAL TYPE IN JAKARTA: THE NATIONALIZATION OF "DEATH" --; FLYING A KITE: THE CRIMES OF PRAMOEDYA ANANTA TOER --; NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781501718878; 9783110649680; 9783110536171
• DOI: 10.7591/9781501718878
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Vicente L. Rafael.

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.