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Reconstructing Criminality in Latin America
About this book
The only reader currently available on criminality in Latin America, Reconstructing Criminality in Latin America reconstructs the way in which different Latin American societies have viewed, described, defined, and reacted to criminal behavior. Crime in Latin America is explored in terms of gender, race, class, and criminological theory. The highly readable essays in this book explore how Catholic notions of sin, natural law, the 'divine' rights of absolutist monarchs, liberal rights of 'man,' positivism, and social Darwinism received a sympathetic, even enthusiastic, endorsement from policy makers throughout Latin America. Reconstructing Criminality in Latin America also shows how new methodologies have given scholars deeper insight into the significance of crime in Latin American societies. The selections testify that the insights of scholars like Eric Hobsbawm and Michel Foucault are the foundations of modern histories of crime in Latin America. This book is ideal for criminal justice, sociology, and Latin American social history courses.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half title
- Title
- Copyright
- Acknowledgments
- About the Editors
- Contents
- Robert Buffington, Introduction: Conceptualizing Criminality in Latin America
- 1 Michael C. Scardaville, (Hapsburg) Law and (Bourbon) Order: State Authority, Popular Unrest, and the Criminal Justice System in Bourbon Mexico City
- 2 Sarah C. Chambers, Crime and Citizenship: Judicial Practice in Arequipa, Peru, during the Transition from Colony to Republic
- 3 Richard Warren, Mass Mobilization versus Social Control: Vagrancy and Political Order in Early Republican Mexico
- 4 Ricardo D. Salvatore, The Crimes of Poor Paysanos in Midnineteenth-Century Buenos Aires
- 5 Thomas H. Holloway, Punishment in Nineteenth-Century Rio de Janeiro: Judicial Action as Police Practice
- 6 Pablo Piccato, Urbanistas, Ambulantes, and Mendigos: The Dispute for Urban Space in Mexico City, 1890–1930
- 7 Kristin Ruggiero, Not Guilty: Abortion and Infanticide in Nineteenth-Century Argentina
- 8 Katherine Elaine Bliss, “Guided by an Imperious, Moral Need”: Prostitutes, Motherhood, and Nationalism in Revolutionary Mexico
- 9 Laura Kalmanowiecki, Police, Politics, and Repression in Modern Argentina
- 10 Alma Guillermoprieto, Medellín, 1991
- Carlos A. Aguirre, Bibliographical Essay
- Selected Filmography
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