About the Author & the Site The author is a teacher and PhD candidate at the Dept. of Economic History, Stockholm University.Previously connected to the Seminar of Development Studies, at the Development Studies Unit of the Dept of Government, Uppsala University (1993-1997), he is now in the process of completing his doctoral thesis on colonial crime and the institutional economy of criminal processing and disciplining agencies in US occupied Philippines anno 1900-1935. On this site, the author will publish research project-related reports on an on-going basis. Financial support to the research project has been extended by the university-administered Kinanders Foundation (2001-2004), the Dept. of Economic History, Stockholm University (for archival work, Fall 2003), and Sida/Sarec (for archival works, Spring & Fall 1998). To know more about the author log on his departmental website: http://w1.880.telia.com/~u88003049/ Technical Report # 3 Penal Case Directory & Data-Base. (Spring 2004) This 230 pp penal case directory and data-base covers a total of 750 randomly sampled criminal cases drawn on a five-year interval basis from the pubished proceedings of the Supreme Court of the Philippines during the American occupation between 1900-1935. It collates sets of relevant parametric data which in sundry ways and levels help trace and track down structural and agency changes in late colonial criminal behavior and criminal processing and disciplining institutions. Three data sets are designed to address this task: a) Data set 1, gears towards structural trace elements of criminality, all of which feed into a randomly sampled statistical reconstruction over time of as it were the broad landscape of late colonial criminal economy. b) Data set 2 has to do with trace elements designed to map out and probe into what may analytically be labeled as the landscape of the institutional economy of late colonial criminal processing and disciplining agencies. This set analytically employs the analogy of the integrated processing firm, manufacturing and transacting relatively legally and procedurally secure and sustainable verdicts and disciplinary measures to contain and control criminal action and behavior. In this sense, the court hierarchy, police and penitentiary form interlocking divisions or departments in a syndicated criminal justice transaction and throughput system. According to this model hence, the "life cycle" of judicial-disciplinary "products" (i.e. criminal acts transformed formally into penal cases transacted throughout the late colonial criminal justice system) is tracked down through 3 sub-accounts or "logs": the product velocity log (pvl), product standardization log (psl), and the product logistics log (pll). c) Data set 3, straddles the landscapes depicted in the preceding two sets, by exploring psychic (affect) structures and their relationship with the changing character of social interaction and space as a consequence of colonial encounters. It traces such socio-psychic landscapes through individual case profiling of inter alia: criminal motives, forensic (argumentative) assignment of liabilities and penalties, the social features of crime scenes. Finally, a directory and data-base key followed by critical notes on source, data-retrieval and processing will round off the introductory text; the former to facilitate data search, the latter, to indicate source limitations, including a detailed inventory of explicit and implicit material-specific biases. Besides noted data-base key, the respective page locations of the data-base columns (A-W) appear in the table of Contents in the title page. Technical Report # 1 Parts 1-2, An Annotated Bibliography of Contemporary Primary and Secondary Sources. (Spring 2004) This 150 pp annotated bibliography tabulates and condenses information on the content and relevance of selected sources central to the thematic concerns of the current research project: colonial criminality, criminal processing and disciplining institutions in late colonial Philippines. It aims to raise research transparency in three crucial senses: 1) as a referential compass and guide into the main sources for both researcher and readers; 2) as a venue for raising the latter's field of vision even in terms of the process of raw data generation; 3) as a devise for facilitating in a more open and visible manner the process of finetuning or reformulating preliminary theoretical questions against the available empirical evidence. Digital Archive: Late Colonial Historiography, The Philippines Under US Occupation, 1900-1935 This electronic log (http://w1.880.telia.com/~u88003049/archivalwork.html)gives a thumbnail account of the author's recent archival work in Manila, Philippines, and an inventory of the titles available in his newly built digital library as a result thereof. "Civilizing Colonialism and Taming the Criminal Savage"- Impression Management and the Making and Un-Making of Deviance and Discipline in Late Colonial Philippines, 1900-1935." (Fall 2002) This paper was presented at the Graduate Seminar (February 28 2002), Dept. of Economic History, Stockholm University. It is an initial blacksmithing report to the current dissertational project, critically juxtaposing and analyzing three contemporary accounts on criminality in early 1900 American occupied Philippines. These accounts are negotiated within the frame of Erving Goffman's socio-psychological concept of "impression management," to problematize recent scholarship's tendency to literally apply fashionable Foucauldian concepts like (power-knowledge) technologies of disciplinary power in historical and cultural studies of colonial crime and punishment. It argues i.a. that the compulsion to enhance reputation on both teacher (American colonial bureaucrats) and student (native subalterns in the colonial bureaucracy) in the institutional shift towards more modern, rational disciplinary technologies of social control does make a difference in terms of relatively constraining and hybridizing if you like the concomitant nature and forms of deployment and applications of such technologies. To illustrate the potential effects of impression management on bureaucratic performance, the paper makes a comparative forensic analysis of two statistically-grounded and widely quoted if mutually validating accounts of what appeared to be declining ratios of criminality and low racial propensity to criminal behavior among natives during the first decade of American rule in the Philippines (one given by an (American Director of Census) and another by a native bureaucrat (an attorney general)); the latter are then counterpoised to a critical third, more anecdotal deposition (by an American academic) on bureaucratic praxis and social problems following in the wake of colonial occupation.