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The Criminals of Lima and Their Worlds: The Prison Experience, 1850–1935
Carlos Aguirre
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Paperback. 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. Num Pages: 328 pages, 10 b&w photos, 15 tables. BIC Classification: JKVP1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3887 x 21. Weight in Grams: 454.
The Criminals of Lima and Their Worlds is the first major historical study of the creation and development of the prison system in Peru. Carlos Aguirre examines the evolution of prisons for male criminals in Lima from the conception—in the early 1850s—of the initial plans to build penitentiaries through the early-twentieth-century prison reforms undertaken as part of President Augusto Leguia’s attempts to modernize and expand the Peruvian state. Aguirre reconstructs the social, cultural, and doctrinal influences that determined how lawbreakers were treated, how programs of prison reform fared, and how inmates experienced incarceration. He argues that the Peruvian prisons were ... Read more
The Criminals of Lima and Their Worlds is the first major historical study of the creation and development of the prison system in Peru. Carlos Aguirre examines the evolution of prisons for male criminals in Lima from the conception—in the early 1850s—of the initial plans to build penitentiaries through the early-twentieth-century prison reforms undertaken as part of President Augusto Leguia’s attempts to modernize and expand the Peruvian state. Aguirre reconstructs the social, cultural, and doctrinal influences that determined how lawbreakers were treated, how programs of prison reform fared, and how inmates experienced incarceration. He argues that the Peruvian prisons were ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
Number of Pages
328
Place of Publication
North Carolina, United States
ISBN
9780822334699
SKU
V9780822334699
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About Carlos Aguirre
Carlos Aguirre is Associate Professor of History at the University of Oregon, Eugene. He is the author of Agentes de su propia libertad: Los esclavos de Lima y la desintegración de la esclavitud, 1821–1854. He is the coeditor of several books, including Crime and Punishment in Latin America: Law and Society since Late Colonial Times, also published by Duke University ... Read more
Reviews for The Criminals of Lima and Their Worlds: The Prison Experience, 1850–1935
“The Criminals of Lima and Their Worlds is an exhaustively researched and pathbreaking historical inquiry. It will, I think, stand as the definitive study on the criminal population and prison experience in Lima for many years to come.”—Peter F. Klarén, author of Peru: Society and Nationhood in the Andes “A comprehensive, well-researched, and insightful study, The Criminals of Lima and ... Read more