Carlos Aguirre

The Criminals of Lima and Their Worlds

The Prison Experience, 1850-1935

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Januar 2005
• Englisch
• Gewicht: 594g
• ISBN-13: 9780822334576
• ISBN-10: 0822334577
• Artikelnr.: 21027474

Autorenporträt

Carlos Aguirre

Inhaltsangabe

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