Ricardo D. Salvatore, Carlos Aguirre, and Gilbert M. Joseph, eds.

List of Tables and Figures

Preface / Gilbert M. Joseph

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Writing the History of Law, Crime, and Punishment in Latin America / Carlos Aguirre and Ricardo D. Salvatore

Part I. Legal Mediations: State, Society, and the Conflictive Nature of Law and Justice

Crime in the Time of the Great Fear: Indians and the State in the Peruvian Southern Andes, 1780-1820 / 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

Part II. The Social and Cultural Construction of Crime

The Criminalizaton 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

Part III / Contested Meanings of Punishment

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’ Agena 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

Contributors

Index