Prisons in the late Ottoman Empire: Microcosms of modernity

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dc.contributor.authorMaksudyan, Nazan
dc.date.accessioned2021-05-15T12:40:33Z
dc.date.available2021-05-15T12:40:33Z
dc.date.issued2015
dc.departmentİktisadi, İdari ve Sosyal Bilimler Fakültesi, Siyaset Bilimi ve Kamu Yönetimi Bölümüen_US
dc.description.abstractIn 1851 and again in 1918–19 British officials assigned to the Ottoman Empire conducted extensive inspections of the empire’s prisons and drew up detailed reports of what they found. Notwithstanding their imperialist and orientalist undertones, these reports describe Ottoman prisons as being in a serious state of disrepair.1 Stratford Canning, the famous British Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire, commissioned the 1851 inspections with the intent to assist the Ottomans in reforming their criminal justice system. He ordered British Foreign Office representatives stationed throughout the empire to undertake a comprehensive inspection of prisons in order to ascertain their deficiencies and to report back to him. Canning justified prison improvement and inspection according to civilisational principles: But in the present advanced state of human knowledge and public opinion no government which respects itself and claims a position among civilised communities can shut its eyes to the abuses which prevail. Or to the horrors which past ages may have left in that part of its administration which separate the repression of crime and the personal constraint of the guilty or the accused.2en_US
dc.identifier.doi10.1017/S0020743814001706
dc.identifier.endpage204en_US
dc.identifier.issn0020-7438
dc.identifier.issn1471-6380
dc.identifier.issue1en_US
dc.identifier.startpage202en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1017/S0020743814001706
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12939/608
dc.identifier.volume47en_US
dc.identifier.wosWOS:000354048600030
dc.identifier.wosqualityQ1
dc.indekslendigikaynakWeb of Science
dc.institutionauthorMaksudyan, Nazan
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherCambridge Univ Pressen_US
dc.relation.ispartofInternational Journal of Middle East Studies
dc.relation.publicationcategoryDiğeren_US
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccessen_US
dc.subjectLate Ottoman Empireen_US
dc.subjectMicrocosms of Modernityen_US
dc.subjectHistoryen_US
dc.titlePrisons in the late Ottoman Empire: Microcosms of modernity
dc.typeReview Article

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