Crime and punishment in Latin America : law and society since late colonial times / / edited by Ricardo D. Salvatore, Carlos A. Aguirre, and Gilbert M. Joseph
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| Titolo: |
Crime and punishment in Latin America : law and society since late colonial times / / edited by Ricardo D. Salvatore, Carlos A. Aguirre, and Gilbert M. Joseph
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| Pubblicazione: | Durham, : Duke University Press, 2001 |
| Descrizione fisica: | xxiv, 448p. ; : ill |
| Disciplina: | 364.98 |
| Soggetto topico: | Crime - Latin America - History |
| Justice, Administration of - Latin America - History | |
| Punishment - Latin America - History | |
| Altri autori: |
SalvatoreRicardo Donato
AguirreCarlos <1958->
JosephG. M <1947-> (Gilbert Michael)
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| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Crime and punishment in Latin America |
| ISBN: | 9780822380788 : (ebk : Heinonline) |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910473555603321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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