期刊名称：International Institute for Asian Studies Annual Report
出版年度：2005
期号：39
出版社：International Institute for Asian Studies
摘要：The Pentonville model, most dramatically the Pentonvillearchitecture, could soon be found across the world, and notjust in the colonial world. Aerial photographs of the RangoonCentral Jail (now demolished) and Insein Prison clearly showthe central hub, from which radiate, like spokes of a wheel, thelong prison wings in which the convicts were held and observed.As the 'modern' prison was transported to the colonial world,it was transformed, or modified, partly by local circumstances,including colonial attitudes to the potential for reforming thecharacter of 'native' peoples. But innovation had to take accountof existing indigenous practices of punishment, and in manycases had to adjust substantially to them
