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Title Crime and punishment in Latin America : law and society since late colonial times / edited by Ricardo D. Salvatore, Carlos A. Aguirre, and Gilbert M. Joseph
Published Durham ; London : Duke University Press, 2001
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Description 1 online resource (xxiv, 448 pages) : illustrations
Contents Introduction: writing the history of law, crime, and punishment in Latin America / Carlos Aguirre and Ricardo D. Salvatore -- Crime in the time of the great fear: Indians and the state in the Peruvian Southern Andes / Charles F. Walker -- Women, order, and progress in Guzmán Blanco's Venezuela, 1870-1888 / Arlene J. Díaz -- Judges, lawyers, and farmers: uses of justice and the circulation of law in rural Buenos Aires, 1900-1940 / Juan Manuel R. Palacio -- Work, property, and the negotiation of rights in the Brazilian cane fields: Campos, Rio de Janeiro, 1930-1950 / Luis A. González -- The criminalization of the syphilitic body: prostitutes, health crimes, and society in Mexico City, 1867-1930 / Christina Rivera-Garza -- Healing and mischief: witchcraft in Brazilian law and literature, 1890-1922 / Dain Borges -- Passion, perversity, and the pace of justice in Argentina at the turn of the last century / Kristin Ruggiero -- Cuidado con los rateros: the making of criminals in modern Mexico City / Pablo Piccato -- The penalties of freedom: punishment in post-emancipation Jamaica / Diana Paton -- Death and liberalism: capital punishment after the fall of Rosas / Ricardo D. Salvatore -- Disputed views of incarceration in Lima, 1890-1930: the prisoners' agenda for prison reform / Carlos Aguirre -- Girls in prison: the role of the Buenos Aires Casa Correccional de Mujeres as an institution for child rescue, 1890-1940 / Donna J. Guy -- Remembering freedom: life as seen from the prison cell (Buenos Aires Province, 1930-1950) / Lila M. Caimari -- Afterword: law and society in comparative perspective / Douglas Hay
Summary Essays in collection argue that Latin American legal institutions were both mechanisms of social control and unique arenas for ordinary people to contest government policies and resist exploitation
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
Online resource (HeinOnline, viewed February 7, 2018)
SUBJECT Lateinamerika gnd
Subject Crime -- Latin America -- History
Justice, Administration of -- Latin America -- History
Punishment -- Latin America -- History
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Criminology.
Crime
Justice, Administration of
Punishment
Kriminalität
Aufsatzsammlung
Strafverfolgung
Criminaliteit.
Rechtspraak.
Latin America
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Salvatore, Ricardo Donato, editor.
Aguirre, Carlos, 1958- editor.
Joseph, G. M. (Gilbert Michael), 1947- editor.
ISBN 0822380781
9780822380788
0822327341
9780822327349
1282903640
9781282903647
9786612903649
6612903643