Includes bibliographical references and index Electronic reproduction, Boulder, Colo : NetLibrary, 2003 Contents; List of Tables and Figures; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Writing the History of Law, Crime, and Punishment in Latin America; Part I: Legal Mediations: State, Society, and the ConflictiveNature of Law and Justice; Crime in the Time of the Great Fear: Indiansand the State in the Peruvian Southern Andes, 1780-1820; Women, Order, and Progress in Guzmán Blanco'sVenezuela, 1870-1888; Judges, Lawyers, and Farmers: Usesof Justice and the Circulation of Law in Rural Buenos Aires, 1900-1940 Work, Property, and the Negotiation ofRights in the Brazilian Cane Fields: Campos, Rio de Janeiro, 1930-1950Part II: The Social and Cultural Construction of Crime; The Criminalization of the SyphiliticBody: Prostitutes, Health Crimes, and Society in Mexico City, 1867-1930; Healing and Mischief: Witchcraft in Brazilian Lawand Literature, 1890-1922; Passion, Perversity, and the Pace of Justice inArgentina at the Turn of the Last Century; Cuidado con los Rateros: The Making of Criminalsin Modern Mexico City; Part III: Contested Meanings of Punishment The Penalties of Freedom: Punishment in Postemancipation JamaicaDeath and Liberalism: CapitalPunishment after the Fall of Rosas; Disputed Views of Incarceration in Lima,1890-1930: The Prisoners' Agenda for Prison Reform; Girls in Prison: The Role of the Buenos Aires CasaCorreccional de Mujeres as an Institution for Child Rescue, 1890-1940; Remembering Freedom: Life as Seen From thePrison Cell (Buenos Aires Province, 1930-1950); Afterword: Law and Society in Comparative Perspective; Contributors; 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 Mexico City / Pablo Piccato -- The penalties of freedom: punishment in post-emancipation Jamaica / Diana Paton -- Death and liberalism: capital punishment after the fall of Rosas / Ricardo D. Salvatore -- Disputed views of incarceration in Lima, 1890-1930: the prisoners' agenda for prison reform / Carlos Aguirre -- Girls in prison: the role of the Buenos Aires Casa Correccional de Mujeres as an institution for child rescue, 1890-1940 / Donna J. Guy -- Remembering freedom: life as seen from the prison cell (Buenos Aires Province, 1930-1950) / Lila M. Caimari -- Afterword: law and society in comparative perspective / Douglas Hay 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 Mexico City / Pablo Piccato The penalties of freedom: punishment in post-emancipation Jamaica / Diana Paton Death and liberalism: capital punishment after the fall of Rosas / Ricardo D. Salvatore Disputed views of incarceration in Lima, 1890-1930: the prisoners' agenda for prison reform / Carlos Aguirre Girls in prison: the role of the Buenos Aires Casa Correccional de Mujeres as an institution for child rescue, 1890-1940 / Donna J. Guy Remembering freedom: life as seen from the prison cell (Buenos Aires Province, 1930-1950) / Lila M. Caimari Afterword: law and society in comparative perspective / Douglas Hay. Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web |
