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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.
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- Book
- Series:
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Crime--Latin America--History.
- Crime.
- Justice, Administration of--Latin America--History.
- Justice, Administration of.
- Punishment--Latin America--History.
- Punishment.
- Physical Description:
- xxiv, 448p. ; ill.
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2001.
- 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.
- 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 Guzman Blanco's Venezuela, 1870-1888 / Arlene J. Diaz
- 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. Gonzalez
- 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.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786612903649
- 9781282903647
- 1282903640
- 9780822380788
- 0822380781
- OCLC:
- 52590059
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