City of Suspects- PB
Autor Pablo Piccato, Piccatoen Limba Engleză Paperback – 25 sep 2001
By investigating post-revolutionary examples of corruption and organised crime, Piccato shines light on the historical foundations of a social problem that remains the main concern of Mexico City today. Emphasising the social construction of crime and the way it was interpreted within the moral economy of the urban poor, he describes the capital city during the early twentieth century as a contested territory in which a growing population of urban poor had to negotiate the use of public spaces with more powerful citizens and the police. Probing official discourse on deviance, Piccato reveals how the nineteenth-century rise of positivist criminology-which asserted that criminals could be readily distinguished from the normal population based on psychological and physical traits-was used to lend scientific legitimacy to class stratifications and to criminalise working-class culture. Furthermore, he argues, the authorities' emphasis on punishment, isolation, and stigmatisation effectively created cadres of professional criminals, reshaping crime into a more dangerous problem for all inhabitants of the capital.
This unique investigation into crime in Mexico City will interest Latin Americanists, sociologists, and historians of twentieth-century Mexican history.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780822327479
ISBN-10: 0822327473
Pagini: 376
Ilustrații: 7 b&w photographs, 17 tables, 1 map, 1 figure
Dimensiuni: 160 x 225 x 27 mm
Greutate: 0.6 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: Duke University Press
ISBN-10: 0822327473
Pagini: 376
Ilustrații: 7 b&w photographs, 17 tables, 1 map, 1 figure
Dimensiuni: 160 x 225 x 27 mm
Greutate: 0.6 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: Duke University Press
Cuprins
Contents:
Introduction
Part 1: The context
The modern city
The policed city
The construction of Mexican criminology
Part 2: The practices
Honor and violent crime
Violence against women
Money, crime, and social reactions to larceny
Part 3: The consequences
The invention of rateros
Penal experience in Mexico City
Crime contested: conclusions and epilogue
Introduction
Part 1: The context
The modern city
The policed city
The construction of Mexican criminology
Part 2: The practices
Honor and violent crime
Violence against women
Money, crime, and social reactions to larceny
Part 3: The consequences
The invention of rateros
Penal experience in Mexico City
Crime contested: conclusions and epilogue
Recenzii
"An important, accessible book on a difficult and significant subject. City of Suspects will be warmly appreciated by historians of modern Mexico and historically-minded sociologists and political scientists who sympathise with Piccato's ambition to keep crime and the state within the same field of inquiry."- William B. Taylor, University of California, Berkeley
Notă biografică
Pablo Piccato is Assistant Professor of History at Columbia University.
Textul de pe ultima copertă
""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
Descriere
An analysis of the complex moral interpretations crime was given by Mexico's urban poor and of the evolving institutional responses to crime and punishment in modern Mexico.