Full Description
Challenging the Northern-centric approach that has dominated the literature on punishment-and-society, Punishment in Latin America draws on innovative theoretical perspectives to make sense of punishment, penal trends, institutions and practices in peripheral settings, taking Latin American countries as its case studies.
Engaging with both historical trajectories and recent theoretical perspectives, contributors examine different aspects and dimensions of punishment and prison, identifying specific dynamics and features in a truly South-South conversation. Taking part in contemporary movements to decolonize, southernize and democratize criminology, the chapters focus on in-depth case studies covering Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Uruguay and Venezuela, as well as wider, comparative analyses that go beyond country-specific contexts. Placing a critical emphasis on the insufficiency of Northern concepts and arguments to make sense of punishment within Latin America, the authors engage with these theories while at the same time avoiding a sense of subordination or dependency disconnected from their own contexts.
Bringing together researchers working across Latin American, European and North American universities, this collection advances the southernization and decolonization of this field of knowledge.
Contents
Introduction. Punishment in Latin America: Explorations from the Margins; Luiz Dal Santo and Máximo Sozzo
Section One. Penal Trajectories
Chapter 1. From Senzalas to Dungeons: The Constitution of the Penitentiary System in Brazil; André R. Giamberardino
Chapter 2. Punitive Turn or Punitive Imperialism? Analyzing the Transformation in the Ecuadorian Penal Real; Martha Vargas Aguirre
Chapter 3. Criminal Justice Reform, Americanization, and Conviction without Trial in Argentina; Máximo Sozzo
Section Two. Prison Order and Prison Life
Chapter 4. Contemporary Prison Management in Chile: Disputes about Order; Olga Espinoza M.
Chapter 5. In/Out: Revisiting the Relationships between Prisons and Slums in Latin America; Andres Antillano
Chapter 6. The Arrival of the Risk Paradigm to Prison Management in Uruguay; Ana Vigna and Santiago Sosa Barón
Chapter 7. The Inca's Two Bodies: The Prison Condition in Latin America; Libardo José Ariza and Fernando León Tamayo Arboleda
Section Three. Theoretical Exchanges
Chapter 8. Actuarial and Managerial Justice: Theoretical and Empirical Impacts on Latin-American Criminological Realm; Mariano Sicardi and Claudio González Guarda
Chapter 9. Is Vigilantism an 'Extralegal' Phenomenon?; Diego Tuesta
Chapter 10. Southern Green Victimology: A Look at the Cycle of Environmental Harms, Resistance and Over-Criminalization; Valeria Vegh Weis
