Description
Book SynopsisThe first major study of prison reform and the prison system in Peru and one of the few social histories of criminals and their world in Latin America.
Trade Review“
The Criminals of Lima and Their Worlds is an exhaustively researched and pathbreaking historical inquiry. It will, I think, stand as the definitive study on the criminal population and prison experience in Lima for many years to come.”—Peter F. Klarén, author of
Peru: Society and Nationhood in the Andes“A comprehensive, well-researched, and insightful study,
The Criminals of Lima and Their Worlds brings together in a single volume a series of issues that other studies have treated separately: attitudes toward criminals and the sociocultural construction of crime; strategies and quotidian practices of policing; the importation and imperfect adoption of European positivist criminology; prison regimes and the birth of the penitentiary; and the relationship between crime, the courts, and broader questions of political power.”—David S. Parker, author of
The Idea of the Middle Class: White-Collar Workers and Peruvian Society, 1900–1950Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix
Introduction 1
I. Apprehending the Criminal
1. The Emergence of the Criminal Question (1850–1890) 17
2. The Science of the Criminal (1890–1930) 40
3. Policing and the Making of a Criminal Case 65
II. Prisons and Prison Communities
4. Lima's Penal Archipelago 85
5. Faites, Rateros, and Disgraced Gentlemen: Lima's Male Prison Communities 110
III. The World They Made Together
6. Daily Life in Prison-Part I: The Customary Order 143
7. Daily Life in Prison-II: Prison Subcultures and Living Conditions 164
8. Beyond the Customary Order 185
Conclusion 213
Appendix 223
Notes 237
Bibliography 277
Index 297
