Beyond Papillon
Beyond Papillon For French criminologists and colonialists of the mid-nineteenth century, the penal colonies of Guiana and New Caledonia seemed to satisfy two needs, namely, to incarcerate a growing…
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Beyond Papillon
For French criminologists and colonialists of the mid-nineteenth century, the penal colonies of Guiana and New Caledonia seemed to satisfy two needs, namely, to incarcerate a growing number of criminals and to supply manpower for these developing colonies. Was the primary purpose of the penal colonies to punish or to colonize? But were these two goals not contradictory?
Back in the metropole, journalistic expos s catered to the public's fascination with the penal colonies' horror and exoticism. In the prisons, inmates found means of subversion, guards resisted militaristic discipline, and camp commanders fought physicians for authority. An understanding of modern France is not complete without an examination of this institution, which existed for more than a century and imprisoned more than one hundred thousand people.
Stephen A. Toth invites readers to experience the prisons
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