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Hispanic American Historical Review (1998) 78 (1): 164–165.
Published: 01 February 1998
...Peter M. Beattie The Birth of the Penitentiary in Latin America: Essays on Criminology, Prison Reform, and Social Control, 1830-1940 . Edited by Salvatore Ricardo and Aguirre Carlos . Austin : University of Texas Press , 1996 . Photographs. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography...
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From the Depths of Patagonia: The Ushuaia Penal Colony and the Nature of “The End of the World”
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2014) 94 (2): 271–302.
Published: 01 May 2014
... produced between these elemental and modern carceral forms and argue that the penal colony was an open-door panopticon, where punishment and routines were aligned with environmental factors that extended beyond the prison walls and thereby complicated progressive criminology. Prisoner labor in the town...
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Criminal and Citizen in Modern Mexico
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2001) 81 (2): 393–394.
Published: 01 May 2001
... Press 2001 Positivist criminology is drawing renewed scholarly attention. Yet the new historians of the science of crime do not come from legal backgrounds. This heavily ideological, discourse-based discipline is an irresistible temptation for scholars who (under the influence of Foucault) see...
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Voices of Crime: Constructing and Contesting Social Control in Modern Latin America
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2019) 99 (1): 187–188.
Published: 01 February 2019
... and the emergence of professional police units and criminology schools in capital cities, as well as the general application of biological and positivist approaches to social control in urban and rural communities. Ricardo D. Salvatore has been a pioneer in the field and a coeditor for two earlier volumes...
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Violencia y criminalidad en Puerto Rico (1898-1973): Apuntes para un estudio de historia social
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1982) 62 (2): 323.
Published: 01 May 1982
...Pedro David Violencia y criminalidad is as valuable as a signal work in the field as it is for its integration of historical, sociopolitical, economic, and criminological perspectives. Silvestrini’s discussion of perceptions of violence through time is outstanding. She concludes that what...
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“El Chalequero” or the Mexican Jack the Ripper: The Meanings of Sexual Violence in Turn-of-the-Century Mexico City
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2001) 81 (3-4): 623–652.
Published: 01 August 2001
... the strength of criminological arguments had become greater than that of medicine itself. Guerrero’s attorneys requested the opinion of Carlos Roumagnac, Francisco Martínez Baca (one of the earliest practitioners of craniometry in the country), and physician Miguel Lasso de la Vega. 52 The reports concluded...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1992) 72 (1): 23–46.
Published: 01 February 1992
... in that the very idea of progress had been based on a strong racial component: progress had been identified with the preponderance of the “right” races in the Argentine population. Finally, the Italian school of criminology, with its identification of crime as a biological pathology and its definition...
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City of Suspects: Crime in Mexico City, 1900-1931
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2002) 82 (4): 808–810.
Published: 01 November 2002
... records, criminal and victim testimonies, scientific and criminological literature, government policy debates, penal codes, official newspapers, popular press accounts, as well as novels, plays, and poetry. Piccato does not sensationalize crime nor glorify violence, but narrates countless colorful...
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Italy to Argentina: Travel Writing and Emigrant Colonialism
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2024) 104 (4): 730–731.
Published: 01 November 2024
... audiences while he collaborated with Argentine government institutions experimenting with criminal justice reform and scientific criminology. Another chapter reviews the published reflections of Gina Lombroso, who visited Italian coffee cultivation and mining communities in Brazil, tuberculosis facilities...
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“En Plena Libertad y Democracia”: Negros Brujos and the Social Question, 1904-1919
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2002) 82 (3): 549–587.
Published: 01 August 2002
... the meanings, both legal and cultural, of African-derived religious practices into a state of flux. 2 Social scientists entered this complex nomothetic arena and, drawing from anthropology, criminology and sociology (disciplines also characterized by elusive boundaries at the time), took it upon...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1969) 49 (3): 608–609.
Published: 01 August 1969
... to provide a needed cross-cultural perspective in the ever-popular criminology courses to which students flock in large numbers. Copyright 1969 by Duke University Press 1969 Delinquency and Crime. Cross-cultural perspectives . By Cavan Ruth Shonle and Cavan Jordan T. . New York...
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Freud, Politics, and the Porteños: The Reception of Psychoanalysis in Buenos Aires, 1910-1943
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1997) 77 (1): 45–74.
Published: 01 February 1997
...—and criminology, a science that developed concurrently—was José Ingenieros, a positivist physician with broad interests in sociology, psychology, and philosophy, who was appointed director of the Institute of Criminology in 1907. 22 In the area of general psychiatry, Ingenieros, although a declared “somatist...
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Subjects of Crisis: Race and Gender as Disease in Latin America
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2002) 82 (1): 162–163.
Published: 01 February 2002
... delve into topics such as the genealogy of discourses of Self and Other, criminology as figurative language, and fictions of time, space, and race. The discussion on the construction of anemia as an endemic disease by late-nineteenth-century Creole intellectuals in Puerto Rico is the most original...
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A Miscarriage of Justice: Women's Reproductive Lives and the Law in Early Twentieth-Century Brazil
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2025) 105 (1): 195–196.
Published: 01 February 2025
..., by eugenic thought and its projections in emerging practices of criminology, and by patriarchal projections about honor and gender roles. Roth explains that “the end of slavery and the rise of republicanism forced all women's reproductive lives—but particularly those of poor women—into regimes...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1988) 68 (1): 135–136.
Published: 01 February 1988
... University Press 1988 Bandidos consists of eight studies of bandit phenomena in seven Latin American countries (Mexico, Venezuela, Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, Cuba, and Colombia), and papers on Hollywood’s depiction of Latin bandits and how bandits influence criminological theory, framed...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1986) 66 (2): 419–420.
Published: 01 May 1986
... industry. Although Huggins consistently asks provocative questions, and the topic is interesting, there are a number of unfortunate flaws. The book begins with an overly long and loosely argued evaluation of the relative utility of modernization and dependency theories in criminological investigations...
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Sex and Sexuality in Latin America
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1998) 78 (2): 325–356.
Published: 01 May 1998
... touch on everything from tango lyrics and soccer chants in Argentina, to the criminology of “sexual deviance” in Mexico, to Puerto Rican literature in the United States. The resulting volume at once underscores the possibilities and the difficulties of such a vast project. One of the obvious...
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The Criminals of Lima and Their Worlds: The Prison Experience, 1850-1935
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2007) 87 (3): 612–614.
Published: 01 August 2007
... parts, Aguirre first introduces some of the key elements related to prison reform encapsulated in the debates between legalistic and increasingly medicalized notions of criminality. Criminological theories, no matter their lack of rigorous research or consensus, enjoyed tremendous cachet among Leguiísta...
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Gender, Sexuality, and Power in Latin America since Independence
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2009) 89 (1): 167–168.
Published: 01 February 2009
... account of homosexuality in 1990s Nicaragua. Several other fine essays stress the centrality of sexuality to discourses of science: James Green provides compelling arguments about the importance of “inverts” to Brazilian eugenics; Alejandra Bronfman considers similar dynamics with Cuban criminology...
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Argentina on the Couch: Psychiatry, State, and Society, 1880 to the Present
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2004) 84 (4): 762–763.
Published: 01 November 2004
...: Argentine psychiatrists readily followed Italian and French degeneration theorists by privileging organic origins to psychological disorders, yet also turned to poorly conceived notions of “moral insanity” when organic explanations failed. And Lila Caimari’s study of the Argentine Institute of Criminology’s...
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