Birth of the Penitentiary in Latin America - Essays on Criminology, Prison Reform, and Social Control, 1830-1940

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List of contents

• Introduction
• 1. The Birth of the Penitentiary in Latin America: Toward an Interpretive Social History of Prisons (Ricardo D. Salvatore and Carlos Aguirre)
• 2. The Lima Penitentiary and the Modernization of Criminal Justice in Nineteenth-Century Peru (Carlos Aguirre)
• 3. Vicious Women, Virtuous Women: The Female Delinquent and the Santiago de Chile Correctional House, 1860–1900 (MarÍa Soledad ZÁrate Campos)
• 4. What the Eyes Can’t See: Stories from Rio de Janeiro’s Prisons (Marcos Luiz Bretas)
• 5. “Forcing Them to Work and Punishing Whoever Resisted”: Servile Labor and Penal Servitude under Colonialism in Nineteenth-Century Puerto Rico (Kelvin A. Santiago-Valles)
• 6. Revolutionary Reform: Capitalist Development, Prison Reform, and Executive Power in Mexico (Robert Buffington)
• 7. Penitentiaries, Visions of Class, and Export Economies: Brazil and Argentina Compared (Ricardo D. Salvatore)
• 8. Confinement, Policing, and the Emergence of Social Policy in Costa Rica, 1880–1935 (Steven Palmer)
• Selected Bibliography
• Contributors
• Index

Product details

• Authors: Ricardo Aguirre Salvatore, Ricardo D. Aguirre Salvatore
• Assisted by: Carlos Aguirre (Editor), Carlos A. Aguirre (Editor), Ricardo Salvatore (Editor), Ricardo D. Salvatore (Editor), Ricardo Donato Salvatore (Editor)
• Publisher: University Of Texas Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.08.1996
• EAN: 9780292777071
• ISBN: 978-0-292-77707-1
• No. of pages: 303
• Series: New Interpretations of Latin A; University of Texas Press; Llilas New Interpretations of; LLILAS New Interpretations of Latin America Series
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Law > Criminal law, criminal procedural law, criminology