03566nam 22005174a 450 991047355560332120080401102445.09780822380788 : (ebk : Heinonline)10.1515/9780822380788(DE-B1597)552058(OCoLC)52590059(DE-B1597)9780822380788(MiAaPQ)EBC1167479(CKB)111087028002196(EXLCZ)9911108702800219620080318d2001 uy 0engurun#|||uuuuutxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierCrime and punishment in Latin America law and society since late colonial times /edited by Ricardo D. Salvatore, Carlos A. Aguirre, and Gilbert M. JosephDurham Duke University Press2001xxiv, 448p. ;illDescription based upon print version of record.Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction: writing the history of law, crime, and punishment in Latin America / Carlos Aguirre and Ricardo D. Salvatore -- Crime in the time of the great fear: Indians and the state in the Peruvian Southern Andes / Charles F. Walker -- Women, order, and progress in Guzman Blanco's Venezuela, 1870-1888 / Arlene J. Diaz -- 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. Gonzalez -- The criminalization 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 -- 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' agenda 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.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.e-Duke books scholarly collection.CrimeLatin AmericaHistoryJustice, Administration ofLatin AmericaHistoryPunishmentLatin AmericaHistoryCrimeHistory.Justice, Administration ofHistory.PunishmentHistory.364.98364.98Salvatore Ricardo Donato977417Aguirre Carlos1958-1222783Joseph G. M(Gilbert Michael),1947-1222784MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQ9910473555603321Crime and punishment in Latin America2836596UNINA