Crime and Punishment in Latin America - Law and Society Since Late Colonial Times

"This volume marks a breakthrough in the historical study of criminality, social deviance, punishment, and legal systems in Latin America. The contributions are empirically deep, interestingly theorized, and brought together by a very sophisticated introductory essay. The essays immerse us in such vital themes as modernization and the law, the medicalization of crime and deviance, and the modes by which ordinary people faced the state and its institutions--in the broad issue of legal culture, in other words."--Eric Van Young, University of California, San Diego

List of contents

List of Tables and Figures

Preface / Gilbert M. Joseph

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Writing the History of Law, Crime, and Punishment in Latin America / Carlos Aguirre and Ricardo D. Salvatore

Part I. Legal Mediations: State, Society, and the Conflictive Nature of Law and Justice

Crime in the Time of the Great Fear: Indians and the State in the Peruvian Southern Andes, 1780-1820 / 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

Part II. The Social and Cultural Construction of Crime

The Criminalizaton 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

Part III / Contested Meanings of Punishment

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’ Agena 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

Contributors

Index

About the author

Ricardo D. Salvatore, Carlos Aguirre, and Gilbert M. Joseph, eds.

Summary

Representing a wave of legal history that has emerged in recent years, this title presents essays about the relationship between ordinary people and the law. It discuses other topics that include the need for more studies on women's shifting legal status and the ways in which legal systems in England, Western Europe, and the United States.

Product details

• Authors: Salvatore
• Assisted by: Carlos Aguirre (Editor), Carlos A. Aguirre (Editor), Gilbert M Joseph (Editor), Gilbert M. Joseph (Editor), Ricardo D Salvatore (Editor), Ricardo D. Salvatore (Editor), Ricardo Donato Salvatore (Editor)
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 20.09.2001
• EAN: 9780822327349
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-2734-9
• No. of pages: 480
• Dimensions: 162 mm x 236 mm x 27 mm
• Weight: 848 g
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Law > Criminal law, criminal procedural law, criminology; 20. Jahrhundert (1900 bis 1999 n. Chr.), 19. Jahrhundert (1800 bis 1899 n. Chr.), Amerikanische Geschichte, Verbrechen und Kriminologie (Kriminalistik), Süd- und Zentralamerika (inklusive Mexiko), Lateinamerika, Geschichte allgemein und Weltgeschichte, 18. Jahrhundert (1700 bis 1799 n. Chr.), Recht bestimmter Jurisdiktionen und bestimmter Rechtsgebiete