A complex examination of "criminality" and "the criminal" as constructs and active presences in Southeast Asia. Contributors explore such themes as surveillance, incarceration, law and custom, secrecy, and corruption. A fascinating study of power and subversion in the modern postcolonial nation-state. Contributors include Daniel S. Lev, Henk M. J. Maier, Rudolf Mrazek, James T. Siegel, and others.
- ISBN10 0877277249
- ISBN13 9780877277248
- Publish Date 1 January 1999
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Publisher Cornell University Press
- Imprint Southeast Asia Program Publications, Cornell University
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 259
- Language English