Reconstructing Criminality in Latin America

The only reader currently available on criminality in Latin AmericaReconstructing Criminality in Latin America reconstructs the way in which different Latin American societies have viewed, described, defined, and reacted to criminal behavior. Crime in Latin America is explored in terms of gender, race, class, and criminological theory.

The highly readable essays in this book explore how Catholic notions of sin, natural law, the "divine" rights of absolutist monarchs, liberal rights of "man," positivism, and social Darwinism received a sympathetic, even enthusiastic, endorsement from policy makers throughout Latin America.

Reconstructing Criminality in Latin America also shows how new methodologies have given scholars deeper insight into the significance of crime in Latin American societies. The selections testify that the insights of scholars like Eric Hobsbawm and Michel Foucault are the foundations of modern histories of crime in Latin America. This book is ideal for criminal justice, sociology, and Latin American social history courses.

The only reader currently available on criminality in Latin AmericaReconstructing Criminality in Latin America reconstructs the way in which different Latin American societies have viewed, described, defined, and reacted to criminal behavior. Crime in Latin America is explored in terms of gender, race, class, and criminological theory.

The highly readable essays in this book explore how Catholic notions of sin, natural law, the "divine" rights of absolutist monarchs, liberal rights of "man," positivism, and social Darwinism received a sympathetic, even enthusiastic, endorsement from policy makers throughout Latin America.

Reconstructing Criminality in Latin America also shows how new methodologies have given scholars deeper insight into the significance of crime in Latin American societies. The selections testify that the insights of scholars like Eric Hobsbawm and Michel Foucault are the foundations of modern histories of crime in Latin America. This book is ideal for criminal justice, sociology, and Latin American social history courses.

Chapter 1 Introduction: Conceptualizing Criminality in Latin America
Chapter 2 (Hapsburg) Law and (Bourbon) Order: State Authority, Popular Unrest, and the Criminal Justice System in Bourbon Mexico City
Chapter 3 Crime and Citizenship: Judicial Practice in Arequipa Peru, during the Transition from Colony to Republic
Chapter 4 Mass Mobilization versus Social Control: Vagrancy and Political Order in Early Republican Mexico
Chapter 5 The Crimes of Poor "Paysanos" in Midnineteenth-Century Buenos Aires
Chapter 6 Punishment in Nineteenth-Century Rio de Janeiro: Judicial Action as Police Practice
Chapter 7 Urbanistas, Ambulantes. and Mendigos: The Dispute for Urban Space in Mexico City, 1890-1930
Chapter 8 . Not Guilty: Abortion and Infanticide in Nineteenth-Century Argentina
Chapter 9 "Guided by an Imperious, Moral Need": Prostitutes, Motherhood, and Nationalism in Revolutionary Mexico
Chapter 10 Police, Politics, and Repression in Modern Argentina
Chapter 11 MedellÌn
Chapter 12 Bibliographical Essay
Chapter 13 Selected Filmography