Reconstructing criminality in Latin America

Aguirre, Carlos, 1958- (Added Author). Buffington, Robert, 1952- (Added Author).

Summary: The only reader currently available on criminality in Latin America, Reconstructing Criminality in Latin America reconstructs the way in which different Latin American societies have viewed, described, defined, and reacted to criminal behavior. Crime in Latin America is explored in terms of gender, race, class, and criminological theory. The highly readable essays in this book explore how Catholic notions of sin, natural law, the ""divine"" rights of absolutist monarchs, liberal rights of ""man, "" positivism, and social Darwinism received a sympathetic, even enthusiastic, endorsement from pol.

Record details

ISBN: 146164187X
ISBN: 9781461641872
Physical Description: 1 online resource (xix, 254 pages).
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Publisher: Wilmington, Del : Scholarly Resources, [2000]
Copyright: ©2000

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references.
Formatted Contents Note:	(Hapsburg) law and (Bourbon) order : state authority, popular unrest, and the criminal justice system in Bourbon Mexico City / Michael C. Scardaville -- Crime and citizenship : judicial practice in Arequipa, Peru, during the transition from colony to republic / Sarah C. Chambers -- Mass mobilization versus social control : vagrancy and political order in early republican Mexico / Richard Warren -- The crimes of poor Paysanos in midnineteenth-century Buenos Aires / Ricardo D. Salvatore -- Punishment in nineteenth-century Rio de Janeiro : judicial action as police practice / Thomas H. Holloway -- Urbanistas, ambulantes, and mendigos : the dispute for urban space in Mexico City, 1890-1930 / Pablo Piccato -- Not guilty : abortion and infanticide in nineteenth-century Argentina / Kristin Ruggiero -- "Guided by an imperious, moral need" : prostitutes, motherhood, and nationalism in revolutionary Mexico / Katherine Elaine Bliss -- Police, politics, and repression in modern Argentina / Laura Kalmanowiecki -- Medellín, 1991 / Alma Guillermoprieto.
Restrictions on Access Note:	NLC staff and students only.
Source of Description Note:	Print version record.