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Author : Arthur George Frederick Griffiths
language : en
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
Release Date : 2020-09-28
The History And Romance Of Crime Oriental Prisons From The Earliest Times To The Present Day written by Arthur George Frederick Griffiths and has been published by Library of Alexandria this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-09-28 with categories.
It is as true of crime in the Orient as of other habits, customs and beliefs of the East, that what has descended from generation to generation and become not only a tradition but an established fact, is accepted as such by the people, who display only a passive indifference to deeds of cruelty and violence. Each country has its own peculiar classes of hereditary criminals, and the influence of tradition and long established custom has made the eradication of such crimes a difficult matter. Religion in the East has had a most notable influence on crime. In India the Thugs or professional stranglers were most devout and their criminal acts were preceded by religious rites and ceremonies. In China the peculiar forms of animism pervading the religion of the people has greatly influenced criminal practices. Murder veiled in obscurity is frequently attributed to some one of the legion of evil spirits who are supposed to be omnipresent; and to satisfy and appease these demons innocent persons are made to suffer. So great, too, is the power of the spirit after death to cause good or ill, that many stories are related of victims of injustice who have hanged themselves on their persecutors’ door-posts, thus converting their spirits into wrathful ghosts to avenge them. The firm belief in ghosts and their power of vengeance and reward is a great restraint in the practice of infanticide, as the souls of murdered infants may seek vengeance and bring about serious calamity. Oriental prison history is one long record of savage punishments culminating in the death penalty, aggravated by abominable tortures. The people are of two classes, the oppressed and the oppressors, and the last named have invented many devices for legal persecution. In early China and Japan, relentless and ferocious methods were in force. One of the emperors of China invented a new kind of punishment, described by Du Halde in 1738, at the instigation of a favourite wife. It was a column of brass, twenty cubits high and eight in diameter, hollow in the middle like Phalaris’s Bull, with openings in three places for putting in fuel. To this they fastened the criminals, and making them embrace it with their arms and legs, lighted a great fire in the inside; and thus roasted them until they were reduced to ashes. The first slaves in China were felons deprived of their liberty. Later the very poor with their families sold themselves to the rich. Although slavery has never been largely prevalent owing to the patriarchal nature of society, all modern writers agree that it exists in a loathsome form to-day. Parents sell their children and girls bring a higher price than boys. Who does not know of the peculiar sufferings and wrongs inflicted for so many generations on the gentle peasant in the proud land of the Pharaohs, of whom it is said “that the dust which fills the air about the Pyramids and the ruined temples is that of their remote forefathers, who swarmed over the land, working under the fiery sun and the sharp scourge for successive races of task-masters—the Ethiopian, the Persian, the Macedonian, the Roman, the Arab, the Circassian and the Turk.” During the reign of Ismail Pasha we hear of 150,000 men, women and children driven forth from their villages with whips to perform work without wages on the Khedive’s lands or in his factories. It is a heartrending picture. In earlier times the administration of the country districts was in the hands of governors appointed by the Pasha and charged by him with the collection of taxes and the regulation of the corvêé, or system of enforced labour, at one time the universal rule in Egypt. The present system established by Great Britain is in striking contrast to past cruelties.
The History And Romance Of Crime
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Author : Arthur Griffiths
language : en
Publisher: anboco
Release Date : 2017-07-05
The History And Romance Of Crime written by Arthur Griffiths and has been published by anboco this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-07-05 with True Crime categories.
Oriental Prisons: Prisons and crime in India, the Andaman Islands, Burmah, China, Japan, Egypt and Turkey. It is as true of crime in the Orient as of other habits, customs and beliefs of the East, that what has descended from generation to generation and become not only a tradition but an established fact, is accepted as such by the people, who display only a passive indifference to deeds of cruelty and violence. Each country has its own peculiar classes of hereditary criminals, and the influence of tradition and long established custom has made the eradication of such crimes a difficult matter. Religion in the East has had a most notable influence on crime. In India the Thugs or professional stranglers were most devout and their criminal acts were preceded by religious rites and ceremonies. In China the peculiar forms of animism pervading the religion of the people has greatly influenced criminal practices. Murder veiled in obscurity is frequently attributed to some one of the legion of evil spirits who are supposed to be omnipresent; and to satisfy and appease these demons innocent persons are made to suffer. So great, too, is the power of the spirit after death to cause good or ill, that many stories are related of victims of vi injustice who have hanged themselves on their persecutors' door-posts, thus converting their spirits into wrathful ghosts to avenge them. The firm belief in ghosts and their power of vengeance and reward is a great restraint in the practice of infanticide, as the souls of murdered infants may seek vengeance and bring about serious calamity. Oriental prison history is one long record of savage punishments culminating in the death penalty, aggravated by abominable tortures. The people are of two classes, the oppressed and the oppressors, and the last named have invented many devices for legal persecution. In early China and Japan, relentless and ferocious methods were in force.
The History And Romance Of Crime
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Author : Arthur Griffiths
language : en
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Release Date : 2017-05-24
The History And Romance Of Crime written by Arthur Griffiths and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-05-24 with History categories.
Griffiths (1838-1908) was a prison administrator and author who published over 60 books. As a military historian he wrote extensively about the wars of the 19th century, then later turned to accounts of crime and punishment.The success of the latter led in turn to a number of mystery crime novels. This title is part of his series on 'The Romance and History of Crime from the Earliest Times to the Present Day' and includes three illustrations.
Oriental Prisons
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Author : Arthur Griffiths
language : en
Publisher: [London] : Grolier Society, [19--]
Release Date : 1910
Oriental Prisons written by Arthur Griffiths and has been published by [London] : Grolier Society, [19--] this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1910 with Crime categories.
Prisons In The Late Ottoman Empire
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Author : Kent F. Schull
language : en
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Release Date : 2014-04-11
Prisons In The Late Ottoman Empire written by Kent F. Schull and has been published by Edinburgh University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-04-11 with History categories.
Contrary to the stereotypical images of torture, narcotics and brutal sexual abuse traditionally associated with Ottoman or 'Turkish' prisons, Kent Schull argues that, during the Second Constitutional Period (1908-1918), they played a crucial role in attempts to transform the empire.
Captivating Subjects
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Author : Julia M. Wright
language : en
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Release Date : 2005-01-01
Captivating Subjects written by Julia M. Wright and has been published by University of Toronto Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-01-01 with Literary Criticism categories.
This volume is the first sustained examination of the ways in which the diverse kinds of confinement intersect with Western ideologies of subjectivity, investigating the modern nation-state's reliance on captivity as a means of consolidating notions of individual and national sovereignty.
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Author : Arthur Griffiths
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A Catalog Of Books Represented By Library Of Congress Printed Cards Issued To July 31 1942
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language : en
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Release Date : 1942
A Catalog Of Books Represented By Library Of Congress Printed Cards Issued To July 31 1942 written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1942 with American literature categories.
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Author : Arthur George Frederick Griffiths
language : en
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Release Date : 2016-07-05
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Excerpt from The History and Romance of Crime: From the Earliest Time to the Present Day The records of this fortress-prison are largely the history of early and mediaeval Rome, and in the severity of its punishments and the ruthless cruelty of its methods it stands as the type writ large of the prisons of Italy, for which, as it were, it set the pace. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Dictionary Catalog Of The Research Libraries Of The New York Public Library 1911 1971
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Author : New York Public Library. Research Libraries
language : en
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Release Date : 1979
Dictionary Catalog Of The Research Libraries Of The New York Public Library 1911 1971 written by New York Public Library. Research Libraries and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1979 with Library catalogs categories.