Pulau Senang The Experiment That Failed

Author : Alex Josey
Publisher : Marshall Cavendish International Asia Pte Ltd
ISBN 13 : 9814893587
Total Pages : 111 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pulau Senang: The Experiment That Failed written by Alex Josey and published by Marshall Cavendish International Asia Pte Ltd. This book was released on 2020-06-15 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1965, 18 convicted criminals were sentenced to death for murder – a haunting testimony to the failure of a bold experiment on Pulau Senang to reform seasoned criminals in a gaol without bars. Right to the end, Daniel Dutton, director of the model penal settlement, could not believe that the men he had befriended and worked so hard to rehabilitate would want to destroy him. Too late he realised the extraordinary hold secret society leaders had over their men. Pulau Senang reconstructs the events that led to the tragedy and the trial, and throws light on a question that has never been answered satisfactorily – Why did the experiment fail?

Author : Alex Josey
Publisher : Marshall Cavendish International Asia Pte Ltd
ISBN 13 : 9814351857
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cold Blooded Murders written by Alex Josey and published by Marshall Cavendish International Asia Pte Ltd. This book was released on 2009-06-30 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Trial of Sunny Ang (1973). Bankrupt and desperately needing money, this is the true story of how a brilliant Singaporean psychopath tried to commit the perfect crime. This landmark trial was the first of its kind in Singapore—without a body, the prosecution had no medical evidence nor witnesses to claim unnatural death, so they caught Ang in a chain of circumstantial evidence he could not break, which ultimately led to his sentence. Pulau Senang—The Experiment That Failed (1980). In 1965, 18 men, all convicted criminals were sent to death for murder. They were to be a haunting testimony to the failure of a bold experiment to transform Pulau Senang into a gaol without bars and a sad realization that ‘creative work in healthy surroundings’ may not reform seasoned criminals. Reconstructing the events leading to the tragedy and trial, Pulau Senang attempts to throw some light to a question that has never been answered satisfactorily: Why did the experiment fail?

Author : Kevin Tan
Publisher : Institute of Southeast Asian Studies
ISBN 13 : 9812308784
Total Pages : 664 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Marshall of Singapore written by Kevin Tan and published by Institute of Southeast Asian Studies. This book was released on 2008 with total page 664 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chronicles the life, times and achievements of David Marshall ('Singapore's Conscience'). This book presents the story of this extraordinary man who was, for many, Singapore's 'missionary of democracy'.

Author : J E Thomas
Publisher : Jessica Kingsley Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1784508845
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Voices from Captivity written by J E Thomas and published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers. This book was released on 2018-07-19 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing together a range of first-hand testimonies of captives, this personal and arresting collection provides an overview of what life inside is actually like. Drawing on memoirs of captives - including those imprisoned for stealing money, murder, illegal protest or no reason at all - this book presents the universal experience of being incarcerated and brings to life the humanity of those behind locked doors. Tracing the career of the captive from the moment the door is first locked behind them, to analysis of the oddities of relationships developed in prison and how the deprivation of sex is dealt with, the book then reflects on the cruelties faced while inside, and concludes by looking at the problems faced when the supposedly happy day of release finally arrives. These insightful accounts help empathise and reflect on the impact of prison practices on inmates.

Author : Shu-Mei Huang
Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
ISBN 13 : 9888754149
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Frontiers of Memory in the Asia-Pacific written by Shu-Mei Huang and published by Hong Kong University Press. This book was released on 2022-08-01 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Frontiers of Memory in the Asia-Pacific explores the making and consumption of conflict-related heritage throughout the Asia-Pacific region. Contributing to a growing literature on ‘difficult heritage’, this collection advances our understanding of how places of pain, shame, oppression, and trauma have been appropriated and refashioned as ‘heritage’ in a number of societies in contemporary East and Southeast Asia and Oceania. The authors analyse how the repackaging of difficult pasts as heritage can serve either to reinforce borders, transcend them, or even achieve both simultaneously, depending on the political agendas that inform the heritage-making process. They also examine the ways in which these processes respond to colonialism, decolonization, and nationalism. The volume shows how efforts to preserve various sites of ‘difficult heritage’ can involve the construction of new borders in the mind between what is commemorated and what is often deliberately obscured or forgotten. Taken together, the studies presented here suggest new directions for comparative research into difficult heritage across Asia and beyond, applying an interdisciplinary and critical perspective that spans history, heritage studies, memory studies, urban studies, architecture, and international relations. ‘Bringing together an excellent range of cases from diverse locations across the Asia Pacific, this book is an important contribution not only to this part of the world but to understandings of heritage struggles, especially in relation to colonial histories, more widely.’ —Sharon Macdonald, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin ‘This collection is an important contribution to our understanding of the place of Asia within global memory culture. Going beyond the “tunnel vision” of national memories, it provides us with a sophisticated examination of the ways the “difficult heritage” of colonialism, revolution, and war intersects with contemporary politics to produce an Asia-Pacific memory sphere.’ —Ran Zwigenberg, Pennsylvania State University

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Total Pages : 884 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Total Pages : 544 pages
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Total Pages : 1012 pages
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Author : Wing Cheong Chan
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 76 pages
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Download or read book The Development of Criminal Law and Criminal Justice in Singapore written by Wing Cheong Chan and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Alex Josey
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book More Personal Opinions written by Alex Josey and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: