{"product_id":"the-criminals-of-lima-and-their-worlds-the-prison-experience-18501935-9780822334699","title":"The Criminals of Lima and Their Worlds  The","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eThe Criminals of Lima and Their Worlds\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003ePeru: Society and Nationhood in the Andes\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A comprehensive, well-researched, and insightful study, \u003ci\u003eThe Criminals of Lima and Their Worlds\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eThe Idea of the Middle Class: White-Collar Workers and Peruvian Society, 1900–1950\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments ix\u003cbr\u003e Introduction 1\u003cbr\u003e I. Apprehending the Criminal \u003cbr\u003e 1. The Emergence of the Criminal Question (1850–1890) 17\u003cbr\u003e 2. The Science of the Criminal (1890–1930) 40\u003cbr\u003e 3. Policing and the Making of a Criminal Case 65\u003cbr\u003e II. Prisons and Prison Communities \u003cbr\u003e 4. Lima's Penal Archipelago 85\u003cbr\u003e 5. Faites, Rateros, and Disgraced Gentlemen: Lima's Male Prison Communities 110\u003cbr\u003e III. The World They Made Together \u003cbr\u003e 6. Daily Life in Prison-Part I: The Customary Order 143\u003cbr\u003e 7. Daily Life in Prison-II: Prison Subcultures and Living Conditions 164\u003cbr\u003e 8. Beyond the Customary Order 185\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion 213\u003cbr\u003e Appendix 223\u003cbr\u003e Notes 237\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography 277\u003cbr\u003e Index 297","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406037360983,"sku":"9780822334699","price":25.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780822334699.jpg?v=1730494326","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-criminals-of-lima-and-their-worlds-the-prison-experience-18501935-9780822334699","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}