Author: Gillian BickleyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 622
Book Description
A Magistrate's Court in 19th Century Hong Kong
Author: Gillian BickleyA Magistrate's Court in Nineteenth Century Hong Kong
Author: Gillian BickleyPublisher:
ISBN: 9789888228294
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 534
Book Description
The Court Cases Reported in The China Mail of The Honourable Frederick Stewart, MA, LLD, Founder of Hong Kong Government Education, Head of the Permanent Hong Kong Civil Service & Nineteenth Century Hong Kong Police Magistrate. Modern Commentary & Background Essays with Selected Themed Transcripts. With additional discussion of "The Opium Ordinance." 2005 edition with new material. "The book has an interesting contribution on English journalism in Hong Kong at the time. The cases deal with incidents ranging from the abduction and sale of young girls for prostitution (something that still happens elsewhere in Asia) to the snatching on the street of women's ear-rings. Behind this book lies a controversy between those who think that, in Jan Morris's words, 'On the whole, with many lapses and exceptions, British government in Hong Kong [was] good government, ' and those who believe that 'the early modern state had to resort to violent and exemplary punishment to demonstrate [its] monopoly of authority' [Samson Chan, in an unpublished UK doctoral thesis quoted here]. In this stand-off, Bickley, a Hong Kong poet and academic of long standing, is on the whole on the pro-British side. Her lengthy introduction, however, is a masterly and impartial survey of her subject-matter. - Bradley Winterton, Taipei Times. "The contributors have written with insight and understanding . . . a most readable book." - Sir T. L. Yang.
Magistrate's Court in Nineteenth Century Hong
Author: A Magistrate's Court in 19th Century Hong Kong
Author: Gillian BickleyPublisher:
ISBN: 9789881772459
Category : Criminal courts
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The Complete Court Cases of Magistrate Frederick Stewart: as Reported in "The China Mail", July 1881 to March 1882
Author: Verner Courtenay BickleyPublisher: Proverse Hong Kong
ISBN: 9789888228775
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 708
Book Description
-Useful for historians and students of colonial law and colonial administration, Hong Kong (China) legal and social history.-Carefully edited and annotated transcription of newspaper reports of magistrate's court cases at a particularly lively period in Hong Kong history, with analyses and background documentation of specific offences, detailed references to historical Ordinances, and a careful index.-Illuminates the interface and parallels between the establishment of a colonial education system and the introduction of colonial law. -Extends our knowledge and understanding of nineteenth century Hong Kong family and social life, law, policing, and court practice. Provides information about hundreds of individuals.-Throws additional light on the Irish Roman Catholic Governor of the time, John Pope Hennessy and the Founder of Hong Kong Government Education, Frederick Stewart.
Foreign Communities in Hong Kong, 1840s–1950s
Author: C. ChuPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 1403980551
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 219
Book Description
This collection of essays describes adaptations of minority ethnic groups to cross-cultural situations in Hong Kong from the 1840s through the 1950s. It aims to portray Hong Kong history through the perspectives of foreign communities - the British, Germans, Americans, Indians and Japanese - and to understand how they perceived the economic situation, political administration and culture of the colony.
Police Courts in Nineteenth-Century Scotland, Volume 1
Author: Professor Susan BroomhallPublisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN: 1472400666
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 537
Book Description
Taking the form of two companion volumes, Police Courts in Nineteenth-Century Scotland represents the first major investigation into summary justice in Scottish towns, c.1800 to 1892. Volume 1, with the subtitle Magistrates, Media and the Masses, provides an institutional, social and cultural history of the establishment, development and practice of police courts. It explores their rise, purpose and internal workings, and how justice was administered and experienced by those who attended them in a variety of roles.
Police Courts in Nineteenth-Century Scotland, Volume 1
Author: David G. BarriePublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317079272
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 534
Book Description
Taking the form of two companion volumes, Police Courts in Nineteenth-Century Scotland represents the first major investigation into the administration, experience, impact and representation of summary justice in Scottish towns, c.1800 to 1892. Each volume explores diverse, but complementary, themes relating to judicial practices, relationships, experiences and discourses through the lens of the same subject matter: the police court. Volume 1, with the subtitle Magistrates, Media and the Masses, provides an institutional, social and cultural history of the establishment, development and practice of police courts. It explores their rise, purpose and internal workings, and how justice was administered and experienced by those who attended them in a variety of roles. Special attention is given to examining how courtroom discourse was represented in print culture, the role of the media in providing a discursive commentary on summary justice, and the ways in which magistrates and the police engaged in a law and order dialogue with the press. Throughout, consideration is given to uncovering the relationship between magistrates, the courts, the police and the wider community, and to charting the implications of the rise of summary justice and the ’police-man’ state for the urban masses (as evidenced through prosecution, conviction and punishment patterns). Volume 2, with the subtitle Boundaries, Behaviours and Bodies, explores, through themed case studies, how police courts shaped conceptual, spatial, temporal and commercial boundaries by regulating every-day activities, pastimes and cultures.
Policing in Hong Kong
Author: Kam C. WongPublisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 1439896445
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 538
Book Description
The HKP (Hong Kong Police),Asia‘s Finest is a battle-tested professional organization with strong leadership, competent staff, and deep culture. It is also a continuously learning and reforming agency in pursuit of organisational excellence. Policing in Hong Kong: History and Reform is the first and only book on the development of the Hong Kong
Punishment and Incarceration
Author: Mathieu DeflemPublisher: Emerald Group Publishing
ISBN: 1783509074
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
This volume in the series Sociology of Crime, Law, and Deviance deals with aspects of punishment, including sentencing, incarceration, and prison conditions, in a variety of settings at local, national, and/or regional levels.