Topics about Criminality and Delinquency
From: Grÿffffe9mont JOhann <johanngremont@yahoo.fr>
Date: 2008/10/28
To: Vietnam Studies Group <vsg@u.washington.edu>
Dear list,
Does anyone knows topics about criminality / delinquency in Vietnam, especially during the French colonial period ?
Best regards
Johann Grémont
PhD Student
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From: Tobias RETTIG <tobiasrettig@smu.edu.sg>
Date: 2008/10/28
To: johanngremont@yahoo.fr, Vietnam Studies Group <vsg@u.washington.edu>
Dear Johann,
Yes, sure, there are plenty:
Murder (political and not);
Prostitution;
Illegal alcohol production;
Illegal opium production;
Unlawful occupation;
Rape;
Torture;
Illegal demonstrations;
and so forth.
I hope this helps.
Best,
Tobias
PS Where do you do your Ph.D., and with whom?
School of Social Sciences
Singapore Management University
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From: pascal bourdeaux <pascalbourdeaux@yahoo.fr>
Date: 2008/10/28
To: Vietnam Studies Group <vsg@u.washington.edu>, johanngremont@yahoo.fr
Dear Johann,
Have a look on the unpublished research (dissertation?) of :
Nguyen Quang Quynh, La politique criminelle vietnamienne, étude historique et critique de la lutte contre la criminalité au Vietnam, Paris, 1963 (faculté de droit de Paris?)
I've found this study (typescript of around 500 pages) in the "phong han che" in Saigon (Library of General Sciences) but I guess you could find it in France.
Best
Pascal Bourdeaux
EPHE, Paris.
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From: Tobias RETTIG <tobiasrettig@smu.edu.sg>
Date: 2008/10/28
To: johanngremont@yahoo.fr, Vietnam Studies Group <vsg@u.washington.edu>
Dear Johann,
In case you were asking about books, one good starting point would be Peter Zinoman, The Colonial Bastille, and his essay in a book entitled Figures of Criminality in Southeast Asia.
Best,
Tobias
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From: Jason Gibbs <jgibbs@sfpl.org>
Date: 2008/10/28
To: johanngremont@yahoo.fr, Vietnam Studies Group <vsg@u.washington.edu>
Dear Johann,
One very interesting source is the 3 volume collection Phong Su Viet Nam 1932-1945 (published by the Nha Xuat Ban Van Hoc in 2000). It is an extensive collection of literary reportage from the late colonial period where a number of the authors explore the seamier and marginal sides of society (opium dens, dancehalls, nha co dau), particularly in Hanoi.
Jason Gibbs
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From: Nicolas Lainez <niklainez@yahoo.com>
Date: 2008/10/28
To: Vietnam Studies Group <vsg@u.washington.edu>
Dear Johann,
Here is one interesting reference about prostitution, which unfortunately I can’t find anywhere (if someone knows where to access a copy of this work, please let me know).
- Dang Van Chiu, La prostitution a Saigon-Cholon en 1952, Saigon, Imprimerie Française d’Outre-mer, 1952.
A book about human trafficking and prostitution in colonial Indochina is forthcoming :
André Baudrit, Bétail humain. La traite des femmes et des enfants en Chine et en Indochine (1860-1940), Texts edited by Pierre Le Roux & Nicolas Lainez (with a foreword by Gilles de Gantes), Paris : Ed. Connaissances et Savoirs.
Some papers are address prostitution and criminality :
- André Baudrit, “La femme et l’enfant dans l’Indochine française et dans la Chine du sud (rapt -vente - infanticide)”, Bulletin de la Société des études indochinoises (Saigon), XVI (3), p. 5-152, 1941.
Reedition 1943 and 1945: Saigon, Editions de la Société des imprimeries et librairies indochinoises-SILI, under the title : Le Bétail humain, 212 p.
(few copies of this book are available. One can be found at the EFEO library in Paris, another at the IDECAF in HCMC).
- Henri Dartiguenave, “Des ventes d’enfants en Indo-Chine”, Revue indochinoise (Hanoi), IX, p. 239-247, 1908.
- Antony Landes (alcalde de Cholon), “Lettre au gouverneur. Rapport sur la prostitution”,
Excursions et reconnaissances (Saigon), 4, p. 145-147, 1880.
I hope this helps.
Nicolas Lainez
EHESS/LAS
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From: pascal bourdeaux <pascalbourdeaux@yahoo.fr>
Date: 2008/10/29
To: Vietnam Studies Group <vsg@u.washington.edu>
Dear Nicolas,
You can find the Dang Van Chin's study published in 1953 in Saigon (Library of General Sciences, phong han che). The book has been digitalized 2 years by the VALEASE project (valorisation de l'écrit en Asie du Sud-Est).
Pascal Bourdeaux
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From: Oscar Salemink <OJHM.Salemink@fsw.vu.nl>
Date: 2008/10/29
To: Vietnam Studies Group <vsg@u.washington.edu>
Did anyone in this context mention Frank Proschan's wonderful article “Syphilis, Opiomania, and Pederasty”: Colonial Constructions of Vietnamese (and French) Social Diseases, Journal of the History of Sexuality, Vol. 11, No. 4, October 2002?
Oscar Salemink
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From: <frank.proschan@yahoo.com>
Date: 2008/10/29
To: Vietnam Studies Group <vsg@u.washington.edu>
Thanks to Oscar for the plug. There is also the companion piece, which more directly focuses on prostitution:
Proschan, Frank. 2002. Eunuch Mandarins, Soldats Mamzelles, Effeminate Boys, and Graceless Women: French Colonial Constructions of Vietnamese Genders. GLQ 8(4), 435‑467.
Some of the works cited in those articles of relevance to criminality and particularly to "criminal anthropology", in no particular order:
L. Lorion,
Criminalité et médecine judiciaire en Cochinchine (Lyons: Storck, 1887).
Armand Corré,
L’ethnographie criminelle d’après les observations et les statistiques judiciaires recueillies dans les colonies françaises (Paris: Reinwald, 1894).
B. Joyeux, ed., Le Péril vénérien et la prostitution à Hanoi: état actuel, bibliographie, réglementation (Hanoi, 1930),
H. Virgitti and B. Joyeux, “Les Maisons de chanteuses à Hanoi,” Revue du Paludisme et de Médicine Tropicale 5 (1947)
Laurent Gaide and Campunaud, Le Péril vénérien en Indochine (Hanoi, 1930)
Enjoy,
Frank Proschan
37 place Jeanne d'Arc
75013 Paris
FRANCE