Crime, Justice and Punishment in Colonial Hong Kong: Central Police Station, Central Magistracy and Victoria Gaol

by Christopher Munn and May Holdsworth

Standing close together in a compound overlooking Victoria Harbor, the Central Police Station, Central Magistracy, and Victoria Jail were a bastion of British colonial power and a symbol of security, law, and punishment. The magistracy administered a form of cheap summary justice heavily adapted to the needs of colonial Hong Kong, which led to well over a million predominantly Chinese people being sentenced between 1841 and 1941. In the overcrowded...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9888528122
• ISBN13: 9789888528127
• Release Date: January 2021
• Publisher: Hong Kong University Press
• Length: 340 Pages
• Weight: 2.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 7.5" x 9.7"