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Dr

Mark Brown

Honorary
Social and Political Sciences
Corrections
Penology
Penal Theory
Parole
Risk
Penal History
Colonial India
Colonial Law and Justice
social sciences
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Dr

Mark Brown

 
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Primary Interest
Colonial Penal History
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THE PRISON PROJECT: PENAL CULTURE AND THE RE-INVENTION OF THE PRISON IN AUSTRALIA

The Prison Project addresses the issue of increased use of imprisonment over recent decades. It is the first comprehensive Australian invest..

2008 - 2011
Completed
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POST-RELEASE SUPPORT OF WOMEN PRISONERS-PROCESSES OF PSYCHOLOGICAL AND SOCIAL TRANSITION

The failure of women prisoners to make a successful transition back to the community is one of the most significant problems of modern penol..

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Crime, governance and the colonial state: a study of the criminal tribes act 1871

Today as in the nineteenth century governments struggle with the challenges posed by communities marginalised from mainstream social and eco..

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POST-RELEASE SUPPORT OF WOMEN PRISONERS-PROCESSES OF PSYCHOLOGICAL AND SOCIAL TRANSITION

The failure of women prisoners to make a successful transition back to the community is one of the most significant problems of modern penol..

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Project Types

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Research Grant

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Scholarly Works

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Imperial legacies and southern penal spaces: A study of hunting nomads in postcolonial India

Mark Brown, Vikas Keshav Jadhav, Vijay Raghavan, Mayank Sinha

Journal article  |  2021  |  PUNISHMENT & SOCIETY-INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PENOLOGY

Southern penal spaces are marked by resemblances and affinities with colonial regimes of control, yet they also reflect quite dist..

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Truth and Method in Southern Criminology

Mark Brown

Journal article  |  2021  |  Critical Criminology

What does it mean to “do” southern criminology? What does this entail and what demands should it place on us as criminologists eth..

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Imprisonment and Detention

Diana Johns, Mark M Brown

Book Chapter  |  2020

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"An Unqualified Human Good"? On Rule of Law, Globalization, and Imperialism

M Brown

Journal article  |  2018  |  Law & Social Inquiry

Forty years ago, E. P. Thompson praised the English rule of law forged during the bloody and fractious eighteenth century, calling..

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COLONIAL STATES, COLONIAL RULE, COLONIAL GOVERNMENTALITIES: IMPLICATIONS FOR THE STUDY OF HISTORICAL STATE CRIME

Mark Brown

Journal article  |  2018  |  STATE CRIME

The colonial state has been an object of intense study and debate among historians and postcolonial scholars. In this special issu..

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Southern criminology in the post-colony: More than a 'derivative discourse'?

M Brown

Book Chapter  |  2018

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Postcolonial penality: Liberty and repression in the shadow of independence, India c. 1947

Mark Brown

Journal article  |  2017  |  THEORETICAL CRIMINOLOGY

This article reports primary archival data on the colonial penal history of British India and its reconfiguration into the postcol..

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The Birth of Criminology in Colonial South Asia: 1765–1947

Mark Brown

Book Chapter  |  2017

This chapter has explored the nature and development of colonial criminology in British India. It analysed a series of moments dur..

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Imprisonment and Detention

MM BROWN, D JOHNS

Book Chapter  |  2017

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Penal culture and hyperincarceration: The revival of the prison

C Cunneen, E Baldry, D Brown, M Brown, M Schwartz, A Steel

Book  |  2016

What are the various forces influencing the role of the prison in late modern societies? What changes have there been in penality ..

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Scholarly Works

Keyword Analysis

Criminology
Justice and the Law
Expanding Knowledge
Historical Studies
Law in Context
Government and Politics
International and Comparative Law
International Relations
Policy and Administration
Political Science

Credentials

Positions

Honorary

Social and Political Sciences

Member

Australian and New Zealand Society of Criminology

Member

Australian and New Zealand Law and History Society

Education

Bachelor of Arts (Honours)(First Class)(Psychology)

Massey University

Bachelor of Arts (Psychology and Criminology)

Victoria University of Wellington

Doctor of Philosophy

Victoria University of Wellington

Links

International Linkages

University of London

United Kingdom