A History of Infamy : Crime, Truth, and Justice in Mexico Hardback
by Pablo Piccato
Part of the Violence in Latin American History series
Hardback
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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.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:368 pages, 16 b-w photos, 3 charts, 2 tab
- Publisher:University of California Press
- Publication Date:25/04/2017
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- ISBN:9780520292611
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:368 pages, 16 b-w photos, 3 charts, 2 tab
- Publisher:University of California Press
- Publication Date:25/04/2017
- Category:
- ISBN:9780520292611
