Description
Book SynopsisReconstructs the way in which different Latin American societies have viewed, described, defined, and reacted to criminal behavior.
Trade ReviewReconstructing Criminality is a smart, coherent, and highly readable anthology that should reach a broad audience. -- Chuck Walker, University of California-Davis
Table of ContentsChapter 1 Introduction: Conceptualizing Criminality in Latin America Chapter 2 (Hapsburg) Law and (Bourbon) Order: State Authority, Popular Unrest, and the Criminal Justice System in Bourbon Mexico City Chapter 3 Crime and Citizenship: Judicial Practice in Arequipa Peru, during the Transition from Colony to Republic Chapter 4 Mass Mobilization versus Social Control: Vagrancy and Political Order in Early Republican Mexico Chapter 5 The Crimes of Poor "Paysanos" in Midnineteenth-Century Buenos Aires Chapter 6 Punishment in Nineteenth-Century Rio de Janeiro: Judicial Action as Police Practice Chapter 7 Urbanistas, Ambulantes. and Mendigos: The Dispute for Urban Space in Mexico City, 1890-1930 Chapter 8 . Not Guilty: Abortion and Infanticide in Nineteenth-Century Argentina Chapter 9 "Guided by an Imperious, Moral Need": Prostitutes, Motherhood, and Nationalism in Revolutionary Mexico Chapter 10 Police, Politics, and Repression in Modern Argentina Chapter 11 MedellÌn Chapter 12 Bibliographical Essay Chapter 13 Selected Filmography
