Aguirre The Criminals of Lima and Their Worlds

The Prison Experience, 1850-1935
1. Auflage 2005
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8643-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 323 Seiten

The first major study of prison reform and the prison system in Peru and one of the few social histories of criminals and their world in Latin America.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Aguirre, Carlos

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Strafrecht Kriminologie, Strafverfolgung
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Kriminalsoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments ix

Introduction 1

I. Apprehending the Criminal

1. The Emergence of the Criminal Question (1850–1890) 17

2. The Science of the Criminal (1890–1930) 40

3. Policing and the Making of a Criminal Case 65

II. Prisons and Prison Communities

4. Lima's Penal Archipelago 85

5. Faites, Rateros, and Disgraced Gentlemen: Lima's Male Prison Communities 110

III. The World They Made Together

6. Daily Life in Prison-Part I: The Customary Order 143

7. Daily Life in Prison-II: Prison Subcultures and Living Conditions 164

8. Beyond the Customary Order 185

Conclusion 213

Appendix 223

Notes 237

Bibliography 277

Index 297

Über Autor(innen)

Carlos Aguirre is Associate Professor of History at the University of Oregon, Eugene. He is the author of Agentes de su propia libertad: Los esclavos de Lima y la desintegración de la esclavitud, 1821–1854. He is the coeditor of several books, including Crime and Punishment in Latin America: Law and Society since Late Colonial Times, also published by Duke University Press.