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A history of infamy : crime, truth, and justice in Mexico
- Title
- A history of infamy : crime, truth, and justice in Mexico / Pablo Piccato.
- Author
- Piccato, Pablo
- Publication
- Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2017]
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Details
- Description
- xi, 374 pages; 23 cm
- Summary
- "A History of Infamy explores the broken nexus between crime, justice, and the truth in mid-twentieth-century Mexico. Facing 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 time, the criminal news beat and crime fiction flourished. Civil society's search for truth and justice lead, paradoxically, to the normalization of extrajudicial violence and neglect for the rights of victims. As 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 how crime and violence took form over time"--Provided by publisher.
- Series Statement
- Violence in Latin American history ; 4
- Uniform Title
- Violence in Latin American history ; 4.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Introduction : a national history of infamy -- From transparency to darkness : justice and publicity in the mirror of criminal juries -- A look at the crime scene : the nota roja and the public pursuit of truth -- Lost detectives : policemen, torture, ley fuga -- Horrible crimes : murderers as authors -- Careful guys : pistoleros and the business of politics -- Our times, our perspectives : the emergence of Mexican crime fiction -- Our models of dread : crime as revenge, justice, and art -- Conclusion : trying to keep our eyes open.
- Call Number
- JFE 17-5935
- ISBN
- 9780520292611
- 0520292618
- 9780520292628
- 0520292626
- LCCN
- 2016042800
- OCLC
- 958963046
- Author
- Piccato, Pablo, author.
- Title
- A history of infamy : crime, truth, and justice in Mexico / Pablo Piccato.
- Publisher
- Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2017]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Violence in Latin American history ; 4Violence in Latin American history ; 4.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Form:
- Online version: Piccato, Pablo, author. History of infamy. Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2017] 9780520966079
- Research Call Number
- JFE 17-5935