Pablo Piccato

City of Suspects

Crime in Mexico City, 1900-1931

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

""City of Suspects" offers a perceptive and original analysis of crime and punishment in early twentieth-century Mexico City. Spanning the authoritarian twilight of the Porfiriato, the violent catharsis of the Revolution, and the flawed social reformism of the 1920s, it roams the streets and households, barrios and penitentiaries of the city, exploring changing state policy and social mores, while illuminating concerns--crime, policing, moral panics--which are as relevant today as they were a century ago."--Alan Knight, Oxford University

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 376
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. September 2001
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 232mm x 159mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 708g
• ISBN-13: 9780822327509
• ISBN-10: 0822327503
• Artikelnr.: 21489501

Autorenporträt

Pablo Piccato is Assistant Professor of History at Columbia University.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments ix
Introduction 1
I. The Context 13
1. The Modern City 17
2. The Policed City 34
3. The Construction of Mexican Criminology 50
II. The Practices 73
4. Honor and Violent Crime 77
5. Violence Against Women 103
6. Money, Crime, and Social Reactions to Larceny 132
III. The Consequences 161
7. The Invention of Rateros 163
8. Penal Experience in Mexico City 189
Conclusions: Crime Contested 211
Appendix: Statistics of Crime 221
Notes 237
Bibliography 319
Index 349