Crime and punishment in Latin America

eng

Crime and punishment in Latin America

law and society since late colonial times

edited by Ricardo D. Salvatore, Carlos A. Aguirre, and Gilbert M. Joseph

Durham

Duke University Press

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Lateinamerika / Kriminalität / Strafverfolgung / Kriminalisierung / Randgruppe / Minderheit / Geschichte 1850-1950

NT 7500

Includes bibliographical references and index

Enthält bibliografische Hinweise und Index

Introduction: writing the history of law, crime, and punishment in Latin America / Carlos Aguirre and Ricardo D. Salvatore -- Crime in the time of the great fear: Indians and the state in the Peruvian Southern Andes / Charles F. Walker -- Women, order, and progress in Guzmán Blanco's Venezuela, 1870-1888 / Arlene J. Díaz -- Judges, lawyers, and farmers: uses of justice and the circulation of law in rural Buenos Aires, 1900-1940 / Juan Manuel R. Palacio -- Work, property, and the negotiation of rights in the Brazilian cane fields: Campos, Rio de Janeiro, 1930-1950 / Luis A. González -- The criminalization of the syphilitic body: prostitutes, health crimes, and society in Mexico City, 1867-1930 / Christina Rivera-Garza -- Healing and mischief: witchcraft in Brazilian law and literature, 1890-1922 / Dain Borges -- Passion, perversity, and the pace of justice in Argentina at the turn of the last century / Kristin Ruggiero -- Cuidado con los rateros: the making of criminals in modern

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