ISBN:
9780822327349
,
0822327341
,
9780822380788
,
0822380781
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource
Series Statement:
EBSCOhost eBook Collection
DDC:
364.98
Keywords:
Crime History
;
Latin America
;
Justice, Administration of History
;
Latin America
;
Punishment History
;
Latin America
;
Criminalité Histoire
;
Amérique latine
;
Justice Administration
;
Histoire
;
Amérique latine
;
Peines Histoire
;
Amérique latine
;
Latin America
;
Lateinamerika
;
Justice, Administration of History
;
Punishment History
;
Crime History
;
Crime History.
;
Justice, Administration of History.
;
Punishment History.
;
Kriminalisierung
;
Kriminalität
;
Minderheit
;
Randgruppe
;
Strafverfolgung
;
Lateinamerika
;
Electronic books.
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Aufsatzsammlung
;
Lateinamerika
;
Kriminalität
;
Strafverfolgung
;
Kriminalisierung
;
Randgruppe
;
Minderheit
;
Geschichte 1850-1950
;
Lateinamerika
;
Kriminalität
;
Strafverfolgung
;
Kriminalisierung
;
Randgruppe
;
Minderheit
;
Geschichte 1850-1950
Abstract:
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
Description / Table of Contents:
Contents; List of Tables and Figures; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Writing the History of Law, Crime, and Punishment in Latin America; Part I: Legal Mediations: State, Society, and the ConflictiveNature of Law and Justice; Crime in the Time of the Great Fear: Indiansand the State in the Peruvian Southern Andes, 1780-1820; Women, Order, and Progress in Guzmán Blanco'sVenezuela, 1870-1888; Judges, Lawyers, and Farmers: Usesof Justice and the Circulation of Law in Rural Buenos Aires, 1900-1940
Description / Table of Contents:
Work, Property, and the Negotiation ofRights in the Brazilian Cane Fields: Campos, Rio de Janeiro, 1930-1950Part II: The Social and Cultural Construction of Crime; The Criminalization of the SyphiliticBody: Prostitutes, Health Crimes, and Society in Mexico City, 1867-1930; Healing and Mischief: Witchcraft in Brazilian Lawand Literature, 1890-1922; Passion, Perversity, and the Pace of Justice inArgentina at the Turn of the Last Century; Cuidado con los Rateros: The Making of Criminalsin Modern Mexico City; Part III: Contested Meanings of Punishment
Description / Table of Contents:
The Penalties of Freedom: Punishment in Postemancipation JamaicaDeath and Liberalism: CapitalPunishment 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 CasaCorreccional de Mujeres as an Institution for Child Rescue, 1890-1940; Remembering Freedom: Life as Seen From thePrison Cell (Buenos Aires Province, 1930-1950); Afterword: Law and Society in Comparative Perspective; Contributors; Index
Description / Table of Contents:
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 Guzmán Blanco's Venezuela, 1870-1888 / Arlene J. Díaz -- 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. González -- 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
Description / Table of Contents:
Introduction: writing the history of law, crime, and punishment in Latin America / Carlos Aguirre and Ricardo D. SalvatoreCrime in the time of the great fear: Indians and the state in the Peruvian Southern Andes / Charles F. Walker -- Women, order, and progress in Guzmán Blanco's Venezuela, 1870-1888 / Arlene J. Díaz -- 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. González -- 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.
Description / Table of Contents:
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 Guzmán Blanco's Venezuela, 1870-1888 / Arlene J. Díaz -- 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. González -- 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
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Introduction: writing the history of law, crime, and punishment in Latin America
,
Crime in the time of the great fear: Indians and the state in the Peruvian Southern Andes
,
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
,
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
,
The penalties of freedom: punishment in post-emancipation 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
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