| A History of Infamy: Crime, Truth, and Justice in Mexico Volume 4 Contributor(s): Piccato, Pablo (Author) |
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ISBN: 0520292626 ISBN-13: 9780520292628 Publisher: University of California Press OUR PRICE: $34.60 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 2017 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Latin America - Mexico - Social Science | Criminology - Social Science | Violence In Society |
| Dewey: 364.972 |
| LCCN: 2016042800 |
| Series: Violence in Latin American History |
| Physical Information: 0.86" H x 6" W x 9" (1.25 lbs) 368 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Mexican - Chronological Period - 20th Century |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: A History of Infamy explores the broken nexus between crime, justice, and truth in mid-twentieth-century Mexico. Faced with the violence and impunity that defined politics, policing, and the judicial system in post-revolutionary times, Mexicans sought truth and justice outside state institutions. During this period, criminal news and crime fiction flourished. Civil society's search for truth and justice led, paradoxically, to the normalization of extrajudicial violence and neglect of the rights of victims. As Pablo Piccato demonstrates, ordinary people in Mexico have made crime and punishment central concerns of the public sphere during the last century, and in doing so have shaped crime and violence in our times. |