Criminal justice history in Latin America : promising notes

Quite recently, a series of research projects, stemming from various sub-disciplines and informed by distinct methodological perspectives, have begun to converge towards a common territory which, for lack of a better name, I shall call crime and justice history. Studies of banditry, prostitution, street violence, policing, prisons, corporal punishment, ideologies of social order, indigenous litigation, the legal profession, and judicial practices – to name only the principal groupings – have ..