Voices of crime : constructing and contesting social control in modern Latin America / edited by Luz E. Huertas, Bonnie A. Lucero, and Gregory J. Swedberg ; foreword by Ricardo D. Salvatore.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-255) and index.
Contents:
Introduction : Studying the construction, negotiation, and repression of crime / Luz E. Huertas, Bonnie A. Lucero, and Gregory J. Swedberg -- Part 1. Constructing criminality: otherness in the discourses and policies on order and progress : Traveling criminals and transnational police cooperation in South America, 1890-1920 / Diego Galeano -- Imagining criminality: race, identity, and crime in Peru, 1890s-1930s / Luz E. Huertas -- Police imagination: the construction of drug users and drug trafficking in Chile, 1900-1950 / Marcos Fernandez Labbe -- Between fiction and reality: policiales and the beginnings of the yellow press in Lima, 1940-1960 / Sonke Hansen -- Part 2. Navigating criminalization: agency and its limits amid state violence : Order in an occupied city: police and antiblack violence in Cienfuegos, Cuba, circa 1899 / Bonnie A. Lucero -- Visions of order: criminality, class, and community conceptions of the police in 1920s Buenos Aires / Juandrea Bates -- Prosecuting deviance: sexual violence in postrevolutionary Veracruz, 1920-1950 / Gregory J. Swedberg -- Between barbarity and tradition: past and present representations of lynching in Mexico / Gema Santamaria -- Conclusion : Toward an intersectional vision of crime / Bonnie A. Lucero.
Summary:
"The book is a collection of essays looking at histories of crime and justice in Latin America, with a focus on social history and the interactions between state institutions, the press, and social groups. It argues that crime in Latin America is best understood from the "bottom up"--Not just as the exercise of power from the state. The book seeks to document and illustrate the "every day" experiences of crime in particular settings, emphasizing under-researched historical actors such as criminals, victims, and police officers"--Provided by publisher.
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