Crime and punishment in Latin America : law and society since late colonial times

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Tables and Figures -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 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 -- Wo...
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Tables and Figures -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 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 -- Women, Order, and Progress in Guzmán Blanco’s Venezuela, 1870–1888 -- Judges, Lawyers, and Farmers: Uses of Justice and the Circulation of Law in Rural Buenos Aires, 1900–1940 -- Work, Property, and the Negotiation of Rights in the Brazilian Cane Fields: Campos, Rio de Janeiro, 1930–1950 -- 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 -- Healing and Mischief: Witchcraft in Brazilian Law and Literature, 1890–1922 -- Passion, Perversity, and the Pace of Justice in Argentina at the Turn of the Last Century -- Cuidado con los Rateros: The Making of Criminals in Modern Mexico City -- Part III. Contested Meanings of Punishment -- The Penalties of Freedom: Punishment in Postemancipation Jamaica -- Death and Liberalism: Capital Punishment after the Fall of Rosas -- Disputed Views of Incarceration in Lima, 1890–1930: The Prisoners’ Agenda for Prison Reform -- Girls in Prison: The Role of the Buenos Aires Casa Correccional de Mujeres as an Institution for Child Rescue, 1890–1940 -- Remembering Freedom: Life as Seen From the Prison Cell, Buenos Aires Province, 1930–1950 -- Afterword -- Law and Society in Comparative Perspective -- Contributors -- Index Ausführliche Beschreibung