INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP: 'History of Prison Reform in Colonial and Postcolonial Contexts: Hope and Disappointment' - Sapir Academic College, 17-19 June 2024

 

International Workshop

History of Prison Reform in Colonial and Postcolonial Contexts: Hope and Disappointment

17-19 June 2024, Sapir Academic College, Israel

This workshop will explore the history of prison reform in the colonial context, its hopes and failures. It seeks to broaden our understanding of the distinctiveness of penal reform in colonial and postcolonial territories, and to clarify how it differs from its implementation in other, non-colonial settings. The claim of promoting penal reform was often an explicit part of the colonial ‘civilizing mission’ and its application an indicator of progress. Proclaimed reformist intentions, however, were often not fulfilled in practice. Historians have examined the violent and oppressive practices of colonial penal regimes. A considerable part of this scholarship criticizes the Eurocentricity of the progressive reformist narratives, often underpinned by the Foucauldian argument about a shift from corporal punishment to imprisonment, and laced with disciplinary and surveillance knowledge-power technologies. These studies reveal that within the colonial context, the European penal model underwent transformations, both deliberate and unintended ones. Postcolonial accounts of penal regimes critically analyze the implementation of reformist, humanitarian institutions and ideas. While reformist ideology explicitly advocates for humanistic values, in practice it can nonetheless support imperial projects of control over foreign bodies. The proposed workshop will explore the implementation, rejection and manipulation of reform mechanisms of the penal system in colonial settings by the various social players that were involved in these practices. Who were the players advocating for reform and what was their agenda? When reformist practices and institutions were transplanted to colonial settings, how did they change? In what ways were the subalterns able to influence the meaning of these practices? What impact did the broader political, administrative and societal context have on these practices? In what ways are the achievements and failures of reform different in a colonial and non-colonial context? The participants in the proposed international workshop will work together towards providing answers to these fundamental questions that stand at the heart of current debates on colonial punishment and the shortcomings of penal reforms.

Submission Guidelines:

The workshop will be held at Sapir Academic College, Israel on 17-19 June 2024. All participants will be expected to submit a working paper by 10 May 2024, to be distributed to the other participants. Those interested in participating in the workshop are welcome to send a one-page proposal in English, along with a short C.V., by 18 October 2022. The proposal should briefly state the topic and outline how the paper contributes to the aims of the workshop. We hope to publish selected papers from the workshop as a book or a special journal issue. 

Please send the above and refer any questions to Orna Alyagon Darr (oad@mail.sapir.ac.il). Financial assistance for airfare and accommodation will be offered depending on funding.

BOOK: Stratos GEORGOULAS, The Origins of Radical Criminology, Volume II - From Classical Greece to Early Christianity (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021). ISBN 978-3-030-67638-4, 85.59 EUR

 

(Source: Palgrave)

Palgrave is publishing a new book on the history of radical criminology.

ABOUT THE BOOK

This book critically explores the development of radical criminological thought through the social, political and cultural history of three periods in Ancient Greece: the Classical, the Hellenistic and the Greco-Roman periods. It follows on from the previous volume which examined concepts of law, legitimacy, crime, justice and deviance through a range of Ancient Greek works including epic and lyrical poetry, drama and philosophy, across different chapters. This book examines the three centuries that followed which were very important for the history of radical thinking about crime and law. It explores the socio-political struggles and how ruptures produced breaks in knowledge production and developed the field of deviance and social control. It also examines the key literature, religions and philosophers of each period. The gap between social consensus and social conflict deepened during this time and influenced the theoretical discourse on crime. These elements continue to exist in the theoretical quests of the modern age of criminology. This book examines the links between the origins of radical criminology and its future. It speaks to those interested in the (pre)history of criminology and the historical production of criminological knowledge.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Stratos Georgoulas is Professor and Deputy Head of the Department of Sociology at the University of the Aegean, Greece. He is recognized in the scientific field of Critical Criminology, winning international awards for teaching in the USA (Fulbright), Canada, Slovakia, Syria, Jordan and Palestine.

 

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WEBINAR: Souveraineté et peine de mort: du modèle romain antique aux réalités contemporaines - 22.01.2021 - Faculté de Droit, Université de Toulon

 

(Source: Storia del diritto medievale e moderno)

JOURNAL: Glossae: European Journal of Legal History, nº 17, 2020, OPEN ACCESS

(Source: http://www.glossae.eu/glossae-17-2020/)

STUDIES

The Theory of Social Defence and the Italian Positive School of Criminal Law, pp. 22-46
Michele Pifferi

Bernardino Alimena and Emanuele Carnevale: The third school of criminal law searching for a compromise, pp. 47-82
Stefano Vinci

Argentina’s Participation in the International Penal and Penitentiary Congress (1872-1950), pp. 83-118
Esteban González, Jorge Núñez

About the concept of the ‘dangerous individual’ in turn-of-the-century penal reform: Debates on recidivism, état dangereux, indeterminate sentencing, and civil liberty in the International Union of Penal Law, 1889-1914, pp. 119-149
Richard F. Wetzell

Zweckgedanke, Social Defence and Transnational Criminal Law: Franz von Liszt and the Network of Positivist Criminology (1871-1918), pp. 150-175
Karl Härter

Adolphe Prins and social defence in Belgium: The reform in the service of maintaining social order, pp. 176-210
Yves Cartuyvels

Gerhardus Antonius van Hamel (1842-1917) and the new horizons of criminal justice under penal positivism, pp. 211-232
John A.E. Vervaele

Echoes of Karl Binding and Franz von Liszt? The Discussion between the ‘Classical School’ and the ‘Positivist School’ in Austria, pp. 233-258
Martin P. Schennach

Toward New Horizons: Penal Positivism and Swiss Criminal Law Reform in the late 19th and early 20th Centuries, pp. 259-276
Urs Germann

The hybrid construction of a European form of penal thinking. From Italian positivism to the birth of French criminology Reception, resistance and appropriation, pp. 277-302
Martine Kaluszynski

The reception of the positivist school in the Spanish criminal doctrine (1885-1899), pp. 303-352
Aniceto Masferrer

Pedro Dorado Montero: A Transitioning Figure, pp. 353-395
José Franco-Chasán

A frantic mayfly at the turn of the century: The positivist movement and Portuguese criminal law, pp. 396-439
Pedro Caeiro, Frederico de Lacerda da Costa Pinto

Reception of social defense in the RSFSR and the USSR, pp. 440-468
Maria Filatova, Tatiana Alekseeva

Ascension and decline of positivism in Argentina, pp. 469-485
Enrique Roldán Cañizares, Matías J. Rosso

The Italian Scuola Positiva in Brazil between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries: the problematic issue of “influence”, pp. 486-516
Ricardo Sontag

MISCELLANEA

La peste en Constantinopla, pp. 517-549
The Plague in Constantinople
María José Bravo Bosch

Tratamiento jurídico de las lesiones en la Edad Media, pp. 550-568
Legal regime of injuries in the Middle Ages
Adolfo A. Díaz-Bautista Cremades

Oficiales competentes para reprimir la exportación de bienes prohibidos en Castilla hasta finales del Antiguo Régimen, pp. 569-596
Competent officials to repress the export of prohibited goods in Castile until the end of the Old Regime
Miguel Pino Abad

Ius commune and juridical conflicts in the early-modern almotaçaria of Lisbon on construction laws and disputes between neighbours, pp. 597-627
Sandra M. G. Pinto


Incumplimiento de la donación promisoria y beneficium competentiae: Bases romanistas de su recepción en el Código civil de Bello, pp. 628-672
Breach of promising donation and beneficium competentiae: The Roman law legacy and its reception in the Civil code of Bello
Juan Carlos Prado Rodríguez

Bans on Combinations: Nineteenth-Century France, Great Britain and Spain, pp. 673-696
Isabel Ramos Vázquez

Los estudios de Leyes durante el Barroco. El primer manual para la enseñanza de la Iurisprudentia, escrito en castellano, pp. 697-720
The studies of Law in the Baroque period. The first textbook written in Spanish to teach the Iurisprudentia
Marina Rojo Gallego-Burín

La influencia del Derecho romano en Estados Unidos en el ámbito académico y jurisprudencial, pp. 721-743
The influence of Roman law in the United States in the scholarly and jurisprudential field
José Luis Zamora Manzano

BOOK REVIEWS

Hylkje de Jong, ’Εντολή (mandatum) in den Basiliken, Leiden – Boston: Brill, 2020, XII + pp. 239 [ISBN: 978-90-04-41011-4], pp. 744-746
Francisco J. Andrés Santos

Aniceto Masferrer (ed.), Tradición e influencias extranjeras en la codificación penal española. Parte especial, Cizur Menor (Navarra): Thomson Reuters-Aranzadi, 2020, pp. 1130 [ISBN: 978-84-1346-572-2], pp. 747-749
Álex Corona Encinas

NO TAN LEJANO. Una visión de la mujer romana a través de temas de actualidad (María José Bravo Bosch, Alicia Valmaña Ochaíta, Rosalía Rodríguez López, eds.), Valencia: Tirant lo Blanch, 2020, 502 pp. [ISBN: 978-84-17203-00-9], pp. 750-762
Juan Alfredo Obarrio Moreno

Daniel Schwartz, The Political Morality of the Late Scholastics. Civil Life, War and Conscience, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019, XIII + pp. 234 [ISBN: 978-1-108-49245-4], pp. 763-766
Francisco J. Andrés Santos

Daniel L. Dreisbach & Mark David Hall (eds.), Great Christian jurists in American history, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019, XXII + pp. 336, £99,99 [ISBN: 978-1-108-47535-8], pp. 767-768
Fernando Hernández Fradejas

Diccionario jurídico bizantino griego-español. Sobre la base de la Introducción al derecho del patriarca Focio y de las Novelas de León VI el Sabio, redacción y coordinación de Juan Signes Codoñer, José-Domingo Rodríguez Martín y Francisco Javier Andrés Santos, Granada: Comares, 2018, pp. 632 [ISBN: 978-84-9045-789-4], pp. 769-771
Álex Corona Encinas

Giuseppe Mecca, Il governo rappresentativo. Cultura politica, sfera pubblica e diritto costituzionale nell’Italia del XIX secolo, Macerata Edizioni Università di Macerata (EUM), Biblioteca del Giornale di Storia costituzionale, 2019, 240 pp. [ISBN 978-88-6056-623-2], pp. 772-776
Belinda Rodríguez Arrocha

Bernardo Bayona Aznar, Pactismo y Teocracia. Las dos caras del pensamiento político de Francesc Eiximenis, Madrid: Tecnos, 2019, pp. 237 [ISBN: 978-84-309-7792-5], pp. 777-778
Fernando Hernández Fradejas

Manuel Ángel Bermejo Castrillo (ed.), La memoria del jurista español. Estudios, Madrid: Dykinson, 2020, pp. 416 [ISBN: 978-84-1324-413-6], pp. 779-780
Álex Corona Encinas

Modesto Barcia Lago, LA ARENA VISCOSA DEL FORO: El mundo de la justicia ante el espejo de la sátira, Madrid: Ed. Dykinson (Colección Monografías de Derecho romano y Cultura clásica), 2020, pp. 303 [ISBN: 978-84-1324-546-1], pp. 781-784
María José Bravo Bosch

George L. Priest, The rise of law and economics: an intellectual history, Abingdon- New York: Routledge, 2020, XII + pp. 118 [ISBN: 978-0-367-33938-8], pp. 785-786
Fernando Hernández Fradejas

Richard J. Dougherty (ed.), Augustine’s political thought. Rochester studies in medieval political thought, 2, Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer Ltd., 2019, IX + pp. 290 [ISBN: 978-1580469241], pp. 787-788
Álex Corona Encinas

Beatriz García Fueyo, Amador Rodríguez Salamanca, creador de la categoría jurídica “concurso de acreedores” (1570-c. 1622), Oviedo: Servicio de Publicaciones, Universidad de Oviedo, 2019 [ISBN 978-84-16343-82-9], pp. 789-792
Juan Alfredo Obarrio Moreno

Jörg Alejandro Tellkamp (ed.), A companion to Early Modern Spanish imperial political and social thought, Leiden-Boston: Brill, 2020, X + pp. 376 [ISBN: 978-9004412798], pp. 793-795
Fernando Hernández Fradejas

NEWS

Nuevos catedráticos y profesores titulares de Historia del Derecho y de las Instituciones, p. 796
Fernando Hernández Fradejas

Dolores Guillot Aliaga (1960-2019): Requiescat in pace, pp. 797-801
Aniceto Masferrer

Enrique Gómez Royo: In Memoriam, pp. 802-804
Juan Alfredo Obarrio Moreno

I Congreso de la Sociedad Española de Historia del Derecho, 14-15 May 2020, p. 805
Fernando Hernández Fradejas

6th European Society for Comparative Legal History Biennial Conference, 1-3 July 2020 p. 806
Fernando Hernández Fradejas

2020 Annual Meeting of the American Society of Comparative Law, 15-16 October 2020, pp. 807-808
Fernando Hernández Fradejas

2020 Annual Meeting of the American Society for Legal History, 13-14 November 2020, pp. 809-810
Fernando Hernández Fradejas

Concesión del Premio Internacional «Galileo Galilei», en su LVIII edición, al profesor Carlos Manuel Petit Calvo, p. 811
Fernando Hernández Fradejas