Salvatore / Aguirre / Joseph Crime and Punishment in Latin America

Law and Society Since Late Colonial Times
1. Auflage 2001
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8078-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 474 Seiten

Essays in collection argue that Latin American legal institutions were both mechanisms of social control and unique arenas for ordinary people to contest government policies and resist exploitation.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Salvatore, Ricardo D.

Aguirre, Carlos

Joseph, Gilbert M.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Kriminalsoziologie
• Rechtswissenschaften Strafrecht Kriminologie, Strafverfolgung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Ricardo D. Salvatore is Professor of Modern History at the Universidad Torcuato di Tella in Buenos Aires, Argentina.Carlos Aguirre is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Oregon.
Gilbert M. Joseph is Farnam Professor of History and Director of Latin American and Iberian Studies at Yale University.