In the Penal Colony

circumstances in a penal colony in Van Diemen's Land, he maintains his sense of humor and complacency. I knew the story was fiction, but I still was inspired by his outlook on his own circumstances. Gould is subjected to numerous punishments at the hands of the warden and guards, yet he still holds a strong sense of humility throughout his internment. Often in the novel, his humor goes beyond…

The meaning of penal servitude is ‘serving a sentence that is meant to punish the prisoner’ (http://vcp.e2bn.org/justice/page11360-types-of-punishment-transportation-and-penal-servitude.html) The convicts serving penal servitude, usually worked on public works and they were sentenced to a minimum of 3 years to life, and were the most serious of offenders. This sentence…

lower-class political mobilizations: Native or Negro-Slave uprisings. The Spanish Crown wanted a community of economic interests to develop in the America’s. This idea failed because the Crown did not comprehend that it was rubbing off the elite of the colonies the wrong way because the revolution's the Crown would put in place were imposed from the government, not from the will or debate of the governed…

correction has its roots from social structure and the culture. The politics of the day, economic realities, class, race, and gender are the factors that influence act of punishment and rehabilitation. Through correction of offenders, the role of penal code is achieved. Obeying the rule of law is very…

One concept discussed was assimilation. In his book, “Multiculturalism, A Very Short Introduction”, professor Ali Rattansi says there is a “growing acceptance within Western liberal democratic states that ethnic minorities have the right to retain their distinctive cultures, although always within certain limits” (Rattansi 11). Most of the book discusses the evolving debate and attempts to pin down a definition of multiculturalism. However, in my personal experience, multiculturalism is not the…

18th century, the concept of incarcerating offenders in prisons as a means of punishment didn’t exist in American colonies. In this era, criminal offenders were held temporarily in jails until their time of trial. Only the felony offenders who saw their stay in jails extended due to the seriousness of the act committed. This didn’t means that the criminal justice in the American colonies took the offences lightly. All civil, religious, and criminal misdemeanors were undertaken by the justice…

During the time period of 1700-1900 there were many changes and continuities in long distance migrations in both Europe as well as in the Americas. The continuity during this time period in long distance migrations was that there was a constant flow of foreign migrator’s that were coming into the United States looking for economic gain. However the change in long distance migrations in both Europe and the Americas was that at first there was a diaspora of Africans coming into the United States…

Society has a set of high social norms, which are formally written, also known as laws. If one disobeys the rights of others, that individual has broken the social norms and society has the right to punish. The concept proposes that every individual freely and willingly enter an agreement to build up society, but giving up a portion of their individual freedom for the return of some protection. These types of confinements include jail, prison, rehabilitation, parole, and probation. Throughout…

forests in 1830 and was used as a penal colony. Reoffenders from Ireland and Britain were sent here. There are a variety of jobs available for the convicts. If convicts misbehave, they will get harsh punishments so that they will not repeat what they have done. Some of the punishments were too harsh and caused injury to the convicts or caused convicts to have health issues. If the injuries or health issues were not cured in time, the convict could die. The penal colony was started in 1830. The…

Australia was once an undiscovered island inhabited by Australian Indigenous natives. That was before white settlement in 1788. For middle school students at Kimberley College, the unit for this term has been about the hidden Indigenous history and reconciliation. We studied the book, Deadly Unna? and its connection and relevance to young men and women of Australia. We studied the mockumentary BabaKiueria to help us step into the shoes of an Indigenous Australian and help in the understanding of…