Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Tables and Figures vii
4. Preface ix
5. Acknowledgments xxiii
6. Introduction 1
7. Part I. Legal Mediations: State, Society, and the Conflictive Nature of Law and Justice
8. Crime in the Time of the Great Fear: Indians and the State in the Peruvian Southern Andes, 1780–1820 35
9. Women, Order, and Progress in Guzmán Blanco’s Venezuela, 1870–1888 56
10. Judges, Lawyers, and Farmers: Uses of Justice and the Circulation of Law in Rural Buenos Aires, 1900–1940 83
11. Work, Property, and the Negotiation of Rights in the Brazilian Cane Fields: Campos, Rio de Janeiro, 1930–1950 113
12. Part II. The Social and Cultural Construction of Crime
13. The Criminalization of the Syphilitic Body: Prostitutes, Health Crimes, and Society in Mexico City, 1867–1930 147
14. Healing and Mischief: Witchcraft in Brazilian Law and Literature, 1890–1922 181
15. Passion, Perversity, and the Pace of Justice in Argentina at the Turn of the Last Century 211
16. Cuidado con los Rateros: The Making of Criminals in Modern Mexico City 233
17. Part III. Contested Meanings of Punishment
18. The Penalties of Freedom: Punishment in Postemancipation Jamaica 275
19. Death and Liberalism: Capital Punishment after the Fall of Rosas 308
20. Disputed Views of Incarceration in Lima, 1890–1930: The Prisoners’ Agenda for Prison Reform 342
21. Girls in Prison: The Role of the Buenos Aires Casa Correccional de Mujeres as an Institution for Child Rescue, 1890–1940 369
22. Remembering Freedom: Life as Seen From the Prison Cell, Buenos Aires Province, 1930–1950 391
23. Afterword
24. Law and Society in Comparative Perspective 415
25. Contributors 431
26. Index 435