Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1972. / Typescript. Vita. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Chicago, Irving B. Harris School of Public Policy Studies, June 2002. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 104-107). Also available on the Internet.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Texas at Austin, 2007. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references.

This is a qualitative research project about the experiences of forty-six former drug detainees who had been incarcerated because of illicit drug use. I examine their painful experiences of being arrested, imprisoned, and their experiences of post-released lives. I did the formal fieldwork in 2012. I have adopted a qualitative approach for my study. I stayed in Zhiyang for six months and Motai, another Chinese city, for one week in 2012 (both Zhiyang and Motai are not the real name of the cities). In 2013, I went back to Zhiyang again to reconfirm some of the data that I had collected. I had met forty-six former prisoners who were willing to share their stories with me. I have done semi-structured interviews with forty-three of them and participated in their formal and informal social gatherings. Behind their painful experiences, I would demonstrate, is a fundamental contradiction between the unrealistically ideal Party propaganda, which is made according to “exemplary norms”, and the everyday actual practices of the police officers and the prisoner officers. These realities are based on a variety of practical norms guided by different bureaucratic rules and regulations. Throughout the process, I will show, former drug detainees had suffered from physical pain, shame and degradation instead of being “rehabilitated”. The discussion in this thesis is first and foremost about a failed system of rehabilitation, but also mirrors a more general system of hypocrisy as it unfolds in contemporary China. / published_or_final_version / Sociology / Doctoral / Doctor of Philosophy

Research Doctorate - Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) / This thesis examines the lives of 142 convict men and boys who were assigned to the Tocal estate in the Hunter Valley of New South Wales. The study is based on a detailed reconstruction of their assignment and punishment records that were destroyed in the nineteenth century, complemented by other, personal information. The study tests the findings of previous, broader studies of New South Wales convicts against the data collected for the Tocal estate, develops an in-depth understanding of the day-to-day operation of the estate’s nearly all-convict workforce, and demonstrates how changes in policies of colonial convict administration impacted on the individual lives of Tocal’s convicts and on the estate itself. Case studies and micro-narratives reveal a picture of the lives of the convict men and boys assigned to Tocal and provide a window through which to glimpse their inner, personal worlds, to listen for the faint echoes of their voices and to appreciate their individual responses to their bondage, their heartbreaks and hopes, joys and fears, pleasures and pain as they served their time at Tocal. The thesis exposes the dynamics of assignment in action, explores convict working conditions, lifestyle and interaction with Aborigines at Tocal. It reveals the complex web of power relations between master and convict servants, the nature and extent of secondary punishment, the struggle for many to achieve emancipation and their fate once free. The level of local detail and analysis provided is uncommon among studies of convicts in New South Wales, enabling a closer examination of some of the more contentious and problematic claims of convict historiography, and in the process, partly supporting and partly disputing some revisionist interpretations. The thesis proposes that the complex and diverse individual experiences of Tocal's convicts are best understood, not by sweeping generalisations, but by a conceptual framework encompassing a series of dualisms or dichotomies that include paternalism and punishment, domination and resistance, deference and defiance, mateship and collaboration, trust and betrayal, freedoms and restraints, and cruelty and comfort.

Thesis (M.A.)--Eastern Illinois University, 2008. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 96-99).

Thesis (doctoral)--Universität Hamburg, 1973. / Includes bibliographical references (p. ix-xxiii).

Thesis (M.S.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison. / Typescript. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 65-71).

Thesis (M.A.)--Bowling Green State University, 2006. / Document formatted into pages; contains vi, 57 p. Includes bibliographical references.

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