Tahqiqāt-e Tārikh-e Ejtemā’i (Social History Studies)

Hunger Strike in Modern Prisons (1925-1941)

Document Type : Research Article

Authors

Foad Pur Arian
Parvindokht ohadi
Shahram Yusefifar 1
Hossein Ali Nozari 2
Yaghub Khazaei 3

1 Associate Professor History, IHCS

2 Assistant Professor, Azad Islamic University of Karaj

3 Ph.d Student of History, Kharazmi University (responsible author)

Abstract
Prison is one of the oldest institutions in human society that can be used to sentence criminals. This punishment was used less and more during the pre-modern era in which physical punishment was used. by breakdown in social constructions including intellectual and physical construction those punishments also changed in prison. Prisoners are entitled to rights that even the first Pahlavi dictatorship could not ignore all of them.
In this paper the development and continuity of a phenomenon as ‘hunger strike’in prison has been investigated by using the theory of Anthony Giddens: ‘structuration’.

Keywords

prison
hunger strike
the First Pahlavi
ghasr prison
structuraction

  • Receive Date 04 May 2012
  • Revise Date 30 May 2012
  • Accept Date 15 August 2012

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