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Reconstructing Criminality in Latin America
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2001
Summary
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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Bibliographic data
Copyright year
2001
ISBN-Print
978-0-8420-2620-8
ISBN-Online
978-1-4616-4187-2
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
255
Product type
Edited Book
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Acknowledgments No access
About the Editors No access
Table of Contents No access
Introduction: Conceptualizing Criminality in Latin America No access
1: (Hapsburg) Law and (Bourbon) Order: State Authority, Popular Unrest, and the Criminal Justice System in Bourbon Mexico City No access Pages 1 - 18
2: Crime and Citizenship: Judicial Practice in Arequipa, Peru, during the Transition from Colony to Republic No access Pages 19 - 40
3: Mass Mobilization versus Social Control: Vagrancy and Political Order in Early Republican Mexico No access Pages 41 - 58
4: The Crimes of Poor Paysanos in Midnineteenth-Century Buenos Aires No access Pages 59 - 84
5: Punishment in Nineteenth-Century Rio de Janeiro: Judicial Action as Police Practice No access Pages 85 - 112
6: Urbanistas, Ambulantes, and Mendigos: The Dispute for Urban Space in Mexico City, 1890–1930 No access Pages 113 - 148
7: Not Guilty: Abortion and Infanticide in Nineteenth-Century Argentina No access Pages 149 - 166
8: "Guided by an Imperious, Moral Need": Prostitutes, Motherhood, and Nationalism in Revolutionary Mexico No access Pages 167 - 194
9: Police, Politics, and Repression in Modern Argentina No access Pages 195 - 218
