Crime and Punishment in Latin America

"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

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

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