Crime and Punishment in Latin America

by Salvatore, Ricardo D.; Aguirre, Carlos; Joseph, Gilbert M.

• ISBN13: 9780822327448
• ISBN10: 0822327449
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-11-01
• Publisher: Duke Univ Pr

Summary

"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

Table of Contents

List of Tables and Figures	vii
Preface	ix
Gilbert M. Joseph
Acknowledgments	xxiii
Introduction Writing the History of Law, Crime, and Punishment in Latin America	1	(34)
Carlos Aguirre
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	35	(21)
Charles F. Walker
Women, Order, and Progress in Guzman Blanco's Venezuela, 1870-1888	56	(27)
Arlene J. Diaz
Judges, Lawyers, and Farmers: Uses of Justice and the Circulation of Law in Rural Buenos Aires, 1900-1940	83	(30)
Juan Manuel R. Palacio
Work, Property, and the Negotiation of Rights in the Brazilian Cane Fields: Campos, Rio de Janeiro, 1930-1950	113	(34)
Luis A. Gonzalez
PART II The Social and Cultural Construction of Crime
The Criminalization of the Syphilitic Body: Prostitutes, Health Crimes, and Society in Mexico City, 1867-1930	147	(34)
Cristina Rivera-Garza
Healing and Mischief: Witchcraft in Brazilian Law and Literature, 1890-1922	181	(30)
Dian Borges
Passion, Perversity, and the Pace of Justice in Argentina at the Turn of the Last Century	211	(22)
Kristin Ruggiero
Cuidado can los Rateros: The Making of Criminals in Modern Mexico City	233	(42)
Pablo Piccato
PART III Contested Meanings of Punishment
The Penalties of Freedom: Punishment in Post-emancipation Jamaica	275	(33)
Diana Paton
Death and Liberalism: Capital Punishment after the Fall of Rosas	308	(34)
Ricardo D. Salvatore
Disputed Views of Incarceration in Lima, 1890-1930: The Prisoners' Agenda for Prison Reform	342	(27)
Carlos Aguirre
Girls in Prison: The Role of the Buenos Aires Casa Correccional de Mujeres as an Institution for Child Rescue, 1890-1940	369	(22)
Donna J. Guy
Remembering Freedom: Life as Seen From the Prison Cell (Buenos Aires Province, 1930-1950)	391	(24)
Lila M. Caimari
Afterword Law and Society in Comparative Perspective	415	(16)
Douglas Hay
Contributors	431	(4)
Index	435