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Crime and Punishment in Latin America
Law and Society Since Late Colonial Times
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Edited by:
Ricardo D. Salvatore
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English
Published/Copyright:
2001
About this book
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.
Author / Editor information
Ricardo D. Salvatore is Professor of Modern History at the Universidad Torcuato di Tella in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Carlos Aguirre is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Oregon.
Gilbert M. Joseph is Farnam Professor of History and Director of Latin American and Iberian Studies at Yale University.
Reviews
“This collection makes clear, through well-researched case studies and specific examples, that the law and legal institutions have had a more important role in maintaining the social order and the regulation of contention in Latin American history than previously revealed. As such, it will have a crucial impact on this and other fields.”——Thomas H. Holloway, University of California, Davis
“This volume marks a breakthrough in the historical study of criminality, social deviance, punishment, and legal systems in Latin America. The contributions are empirically deep, interestingly theorized, and brought together by a very sophisticated introductory essay. The essays immerse us in such vital themes as modernization and the law, the medicalization of crime and deviance, and the modes by which ordinary people faced the state and its institutions—in the broad issue of legal culture, in other words.”—Eric Van Young, University of California, San Diego
"A very useful introduction. . . . This volume offers many insights into comparative histories with other formative legal orders. . .. A real milestone for historians wanting to take legal institutions seriously without portraying them in some of the rigid ways they once were."
-- Jeremy Adelman Journal of Latin American Studies
"Fascinating. . . . Valuable for Latin Americanists precisely because the editors and authors succeed in making connections across time and space, and it is an important resource for nonspecialists looking for comparative examples and new perspectives to bring to their studies."
-- Joan Bristol Journal of Social History
"This volume's primary contribution is . . . a broadly comparative perspective on the ascendance of 'modernizing' liberal ideologies. Perhaps most importantly, these essays expose the disunity and incompleteness of Latin America's liberal project, as well as the marked divergence between the political liberalism of consolidating Latin American and the market liberalism of the United States and Britain."
-- Jocelyn Olcott EIAL
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Writing the History of Law, Crime, and Punishment in Latin America Carlos Aguirre and Ricardo D. Salvatore Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed |
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Part I. Legal Mediations: State, Society, and the Conflictive Nature of Law and Justice
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Crime in the Time of the Great Fear: Indians and the State in the Peruvian Southern Andes, 1780–1820
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Arlene J. Díaz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed |
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Juan Manuel Palacio Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed |
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Luis A. González Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed |
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Part II. The Social and Cultural Construction of Crime
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Dain Borges Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed |
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Kristin Ruggiero Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed |
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Pablo Piccato Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed |
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Part III. Contested Meanings of Punishment
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Carlos Aguirre Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed |
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Donna J. Guy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed |
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Lila M. Caimari Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed |
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Afterword
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eBook published on:
September 20, 2001
eBook ISBN:
9780822380788
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
Main content:
480
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11 tables, 5 figures
