6 Creating Juvenile Delinquents: Redefining Childhood in the Late Ottoman Empire
Journal: Edinburgh University Press eBooks
Year: 2014

Creating Juvenile Delinquents: RedefiningChildhood in the Late Ottoman EmpireAccording to the results of the 1912 Ottoman prison survey, Beni Saab's prison in Beirut province contained 447 prisoners -two females and 445 males.The local nizamiye court convicted 373 prisoners of less serious offences (cnha ve kabahat), and the other seventy-four individuals were awaiting trial.Among the 373 sentenced inmates, three males were convicted of deviant sexual behaviour (fi'ili sni). 1 In modern Turkish