A History of Infamy : Crime, Truth, and Justice in Mexico (Violence in Latin American History)

Piccato, Pablo

University of California Press（2017/04発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 368 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780520292611
• DDC分類 972

Full 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.

Contents

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS INTRODUCTION: A NATIONAL HISTORY OF INFAMY PART ONE: SPACES 1 * FROM TRANSPARENCY TO DARKNESS: JUSTICE AND PUBLICITY IN THE MIRROR OF CRIMINAL JURIES 2 * A LOOK AT THE CRIME SCENE: THE NOTA ROJA AND THE PUBLIC PURSUIT OF TRUTH PART TWO: ACTORS 3 * LOST DETECTIVES: POLICEMEN, TORTURE, LEY FUGA 4 * HORRIBLE CRIMES: MURDERERS AS AUTHORS 5 * CAREFUL GUYS: PISTOLEROS AND THE BUSINESS OF POLITICS PART THREE: FICTIONS 6 * OUR TIMES, OUR PERSPECTIVES: THE EMERGENCE OF MEXICAN CRIME FICTION 7 * OUR MODELS OF DREAD: CRIME AS REVENGE, JUSTICE, AND ART CONCLUSION: TRYING TO KEEP OUR EYES OPEN APPENDIX: QUANTITATIVE EVIDENCE ABOUT CRIME IN MEXICO IN THE LAST CENTURY ABBREVIATIONS FOR ARCHIVAL SOURCES NOTES INDEX PICCATO