RT Book
T1 A history of infamy: crime, truth, and justice in Mexico
T2 Violence in Latin American history
JF Violence in Latin American history
A1 Piccato, Pablo 1963-
LA English
PP Oakland, California
PB University of California Press
YR 2017
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1559619171
AB "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
NO Includes bibliographical references and index
CN HV6813.5
SN 9780520292611
SN 0520292618
SN 9780520292628
SN 0520292626
K1 Crime : History : 20th century : Mexico
K1 Crime : Press coverage : History : 20th century : Mexico
K1 Crime writing : History and criticism
K1 Justice, Administration of : History : 20th century : Mexico
K1 Mexiko : Kriminalität : Strafverfolgung : Berichterstattung : Kriminalliteratur : Geschichte 1910-1970