Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Western Sydney, Macarthur, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, 1996. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 407-419).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Catholic University of America, 1964. / Typescript. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 400-412). Also issued in print.

Thesis (M.A.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 2007. / The entire dissertation/thesis text is included in the research.pdf file; the official abstract appears in the short.pdf file (which also appears in the research.pdf); a non-technical general description, or public abstract, appears in the public.pdf file. Title from title screen of research.pdf file (viewed on October 26, 2007) Vita. Includes bibliographical references.

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This dissertation examines the development of poor relief and child welfare policy in Jamaica during the interwar years. It establishes the paradigms for accessing relief and how this influenced broader discussions of poverty, class and citizenship in society. As such it shows how these concerns about poverty, in the public sphere, influenced state policy as it related to tackling juvenile delinquency and destitution in society. Currently, the historiography of the 1930s emphasizes the role of labor unrest as a propelling force to political change in the Caribbean. My thesis, while accepting this premise, uses the poor relief administration to elaborate upon the response of colonial administrators to pauperism in Jamaica. Financial difficulties restricted the amount of assistance provided to the aged and infirm, single mothers, orphans and juvenile delinquents. Inevitability, access to assistance became tinged with tensions of race, class and gender in the island. I conclude, therefore, that colonial administrators used the poor relief administration to intervene in the dialectic of poverty, class, citizenship and gender especially in the rehabilitation of destitute, displaced and delinquent children.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Canterbury. / Typescript (photocopy). Includes bibliographical references (p. 419-488). Also available via the World Wide Web.

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Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-25T20:21:19Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Antonio Jonas Dias Filho.pdf: 4948509 bytes, checksum: 591f08db205a4509e148a38514fc76ee (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-03-06 / This thesis is the result of research work done in two phases: first in the graduation when we had first contact with this theme and now when we do our doctorate. This work is about an episode of repression in Military Dictatorship against indigenous peoples who were taken from their lands for two federal prisons in the state of Minas Gerais between the years 1967 and 1979. The reasons given by FUNAI for prisons were generally crimes like theft, murder and assault but research has shown that the actual and specific reasons were linked: first the participation of the same in meetings against the occupation of their land by development projects created by Military regime and; second to face due to the internal rules of the FUNAI in the indigenous areas. The theoretical discussion is set in the environment of dictatorships in South America over the years 60, 70 and 80 whose motto was development and national security. We compared the Argentine, Chilean and Brazilian scenarios to show the similarities and differences of regimes lived in those countries pointed out that there was a common project that led to armed repression and intelligence against all groups and individuals considered subversive by those governments. We call this type of totalitarianism as "Development of dictatorships in Latin America" because we understand that the military that took power believed in the binomial economic control-growth. Then we discuss the role of Development Projects and National Integration as factors that have led, during that period, the occupation of indigenous lands not only by Brazil and his great works but also by the northeastern and southern migrants and multinational companies attracted by military government. The reaction of indigenous peoples led the military regime to take repressive measures. First the Indians were arrested for a paramilitary unit formed by members of various indigenous peoples. Were then transferred to the reformatory (in Indian Post Krenak between 1967 and 1972 and Guarany Farm, between 1972 and 1979). In these places suffered confinement in solitary, forced labor, torture, disappearances and deaths. Both repression in areas as prisons are human rights violations and the Indian Statute itself. The importance and originality of this thesis not only in the fact to go public this little-known story of our recent history, we believe that merit is to discuss the failure of the state and civil society as the non-inclusion of the case in the laws that make up the Amnesty process initiated in 1979 with Law 6.683 and continued in 1995 with the Law 9.140 of the Dead and Disappeared / Esta tese resulta de um trabalho de pesquisa feito em duas fases: a primeira na graduação quando tivemos o primeiro contato com esse tema e agora quando realizamos nosso doutorado. Trata de um episódio de repressão na Ditadura Militar contra os povos indígenas que foram levados de suas terras para duas prisões federais no Estado de Minas Gerais entre os anos de 1967 e 1979. Os motivos alegados pela FUNAI para as prisões eram em geral crimes como roubo, homicídios e agressões, mas a pesquisa mostrou que os motivos reais e concretos estavam ligados: primeiro, à participação dos mesmos em Assembleias contra a ocupação de suas terras pelos projetos de desenvolvimento criados pelo Regime Militar e; segundo, ao enfrentamento diante das regras internas da FUNAI nas áreas indígenas. A discussão teórica tem como cenário o ambiente das Ditaduras na América do Sul ao longo dos anos 60, 70 e 80 cujo mote era desenvolvimento e segurança nacional. Comparamos os cenários argentino, chileno e brasileiro para mostrar as semelhanças e diferenças dos regimes vividos nesses países para assinalar que havia um projeto comum que levou à repressão armada e de inteligência contra todos os grupos e indivíduos considerados subversivos por esses governos. Denominamos esse tipo de totalitarismo como Ditaduras de Desenvolvimento na América Latina porque entendemos que os militares que tomaram o poder acreditavam no binômio controle-crescimento econômico. Em seguida discutimos o papel dos Projetos de Desenvolvimento e de Integração Nacional como fatores que propiciaram, durante o referido período, a ocupação das terras indígenas não apenas pelo Estado brasileiro e suas grandes obras, mas também pelos migrantes nordestinos e sulistas e pelas empresas multinacionais atraídas pelo governo militar. A reação dos povos indígenas levou o Regime Militar a tomar medidas repressivas. Primeiro os índios eram presos por uma unidade paramilitar formada por integrantes de vários povos indígenas. Depois eram transferidos para os Reformatórios (no Posto Indígena Krenak entre 1967 e 1972 e na Fazenda Guarany, entre 1972 e 1979). Nesses locais sofreram com confinamentos em solitárias, trabalhos forçados, torturas, desaparecimentos e mortes. Tanto a repressão nas áreas quanto as prisões são violações dos direitos humanos e do próprio Estatuto do Índio. A importância e a originalidade desta tese não reside apenas no fato de trazer a público este episódio pouco conhecido da nossa história recente, acreditamos que o seu mérito é discutir a omissão do estado e da sociedade civil quanto à não inclusão do caso nas leis que compõem o processo de Anistia iniciado em 1979 com a Lei 6.683 e continuado em 1995 com a Lei 9.140 dos Mortos e Desaparecidos

This dissertation, “Wayward Reading: Women’s Crime and Incarceration in the United States, 1890-1935” illuminates the literary stakes of a crucial, yet overlooked, moment in the history of American incarceration: the development of the women’s prison and the unique body of literature that materialized alongside that development. In the late 19th and early 20th century, the women’s prison became a testing ground for the study of women’s sexuality: social scientists sought to assimilate their “patients” into gendered and racialized citizenship by observing the minutiae of women’s everyday lives and policing their sexual and social associations. Ultimately, this experimental study of women’s sexuality served to reinforce racial stratification: sociologists figured white women’s waywardness as necessitating rescue and rehabilitation into domesticity, and depicted black women’s waywardness as confirming their essential criminality, justifying their harsher punishment and consignment to contingent labor. I argue that women’s imprisonment also sparked another kind of experimentation, however, one based in literary form. A wide range of writers produced a body of literature that also focused on the “wayward girl’s” life trajectory. I contend that these authors drew on social science’s classificatory system and cultural authority to offer alternate scales of value and to bring into focus new forms of relationship that had the potential to unsettle the color line. In Jennie Gerhardt, for instance, Theodore Dreiser invokes legitimate kinship outside the racialized boundaries of marriage, while women incarcerated in the New York State Reformatory for Women exchanged love poetry and epistles that imagine forms of romance exceeding the racial and sexual divides that the prison sought to enforce. Wayward Reading thus draws together an unexpected array of sociological, legal and literary texts that theorize women’s crime and punishment to imagine alternate directions that modern social experience might take: popular periodicals such as the Delineator magazine, criminological studies by Frances Kellor and Katharine Bement Davis, the poetry and letters of women incarcerated at the New York State Reformatory for Women, and novels by W.E.B Du Bois and Theodore Dreiser. To understand how both social difference and social intimacy were reimagined through the space of the women’s prison, I model what I call “wayward” reading, tracing the interchange between social scientific and literary discourses. I draw attention to archives and texts that are frequently sidelined as either purely historical repositories (such as institutional case files from the New York State Reformatory) or as didactic and one-dimensional (such as Frances Kellor’s sociological exploration of women’s crime), as well as to literary texts not traditionally associated with women’s imprisonment (such as W.E.B. Du Bois’ The Quest of the Silver Fleece). Reading “waywardly” thus allows me to recover a diverse set of aesthetic experiments that developed alongside women’s imprisonment, and also to reconsider critical assumptions about the status of “prison writing” in literary studies. A number of critics have outlined the prison as a space of totalizing dehumanization that in turn reflects a broader logic of racialized domination structuring American culture. As such, scholars have read literary texts that describe incarceration as either enforcing or critiquing carceral violence. However, by turning our attention to the less-explored formation of the women’s prison, I argue that authors mobilized social science not only to critique the prison’s violence and expose how it produced social difference, but also to re-envision the relationships that comprised modern social life altogether.