A History of Infamy : Crime, Truth, and Justice in Mexico / Pablo Piccato.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Piccato, Pablo, author.

Series:

Violence in Latin American history ; Volume 4.

Violence in Latin American History ; 4

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Crime--Mexico--History--20th century.

Crime.

Crime--Press coverage--Mexico--History--20th century.

Crime writing--History and criticism.

Crime writing.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (387 pages).

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2017]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

A History of Infamy explores the broken nexus between crime, justice, and truth in mid-twentieth-century Mexico. Faced with the violence and impunity that defined politics, policing, and the judicial system in post-revolutionary times, Mexicans sought truth and justice outside state institutions. During this period, criminal news and crime fiction flourished. Civil society's search for truth and justice led, paradoxically, to the normalization of extrajudicial violence and neglect of the rights of victims. As Pablo Piccato demonstrates, ordinary people in Mexico have made crime and punishment central concerns of the public sphere during the last century, and in doing so have shaped crime and violence in our times.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: A National History of Infamy

Part One: Spaces

1. From Transparency to Darkness: Justice and Publicity in the Mirror of Criminal Juries

2. A Look at the Crime Scene: The Nota Roja and the Public Pursuit of Truth

Part Two: Actors

3. Lost Detectives: Policemen, Torture, Ley Fuga

4. Horrible Crimes: Murderers as Authors

5. Careful Guys: Pistoleros and the Business of Politics

Part Three: Fictions

6. Our Times, Our Perspectives: The Emergence of Mexican Crime Fiction

7. Our Models of Dread: Crime as Revenge, Justice, and Art

Conclusion: Trying to Keep Our Eyes Open

Appendix: Quantitative Evidence about Crime in Mexico in the Last Century

Abbreviations for Archival Sources

Notes

Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 20. Sep 2019)

ISBN:

9780520966079

0520966074

OCLC:

959080939