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Hispanic American Historical Review (1986) 66 (2): 419–420.
Published: 01 May 1986
... that her analysis will be discussed and challenged by future investigators. Comparative data drawn from studies of contemporary societies suggest that the arrest rate for misdemeanor infractions in Recife was actually quite low. Cities that did not experience the transition from slavery to free labor...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2022) 102 (1): 175–177.
Published: 01 February 2022
... to their misdemeanors, scholars interested in the question of crime would like to know how many ended up embracing criminal careers. This is a wonderful, well-organized book that says much about the condition of working-class children in modern Buenos Aires: their undue and often illegal detentions, their life...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2007) 87 (1): 180–181.
Published: 01 February 2007
.... Cloth , $49.95 . © 2007 by Duke University Press 2007 In chapters treating crimes and misdemeanors from adultery, murder, torture, and sorcery to dueling and racial “passing,” New World Orders shows how French, Dutch, British, and Iberian imperial systems used law — its regulations, its...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2021) 101 (3): 559–561.
Published: 01 August 2021
... legalized prostitution, prohibited brothels, and criminalized pimping. The law did not bar individual prostitutes, but a paradigm of regulation was replaced by one of punishment, and power shifted substantially to the local police who enforced local codes of misdemeanor ( códigos de faltas ). While most...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2005) 85 (1): 147–149.
Published: 01 February 2005
... for moral misdemeanors allegedly committed while administering confession. Hyland rejects this hypothesis based on the Naples documents, one of which, she states, asserts “that Valera had been imprisoned by the Jesuits for his writings on Inca religion—not by the Inquisition for fornication” (p. 186...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1981) 61 (1): 52–72.
Published: 01 February 1981
... in the last decade. Most were released for continuing drunkenness, flagrant insubordination, and persistent inattention to duty. Frequently those discharged were charged with all three. Over half of the service records show punishment for at least one misdemeanor; 30 percent of those who committed violations...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2014) 94 (4): 581–614.
Published: 01 November 2014
... of Brazil (1890), book 2, title 10, chap. 6. On capoeiragem, see “Of Vagrants and Capoeiras,” in ibid., book 3, chap. 13. For the definitions of crime and misdemeanor, see Penal Code of the United States of Brazil (1890), book 1, title 2, articles 7–8. 100. On the repression of capoeira gangs...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1967) 47 (3): 344–359.
Published: 01 August 1967
... misdemeanors were often whipped. More serious offenses could bring a form of punishment known as pringar or lardear— the dropping of pork fat, melted by a large taper, or the wax of the taper itself on the naked skin. Cervantes indicates that this was the regular punishment for fugitive slaves...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2000) 80 (3): 415–462.
Published: 01 August 2000
... population are conceptualized and used in nationalist ideologies in Cuba and in the United States is quite striking. Patriotic speeches in the United States rarely refer to European atrocities, and if British crimes (or more likely, in U.S. discourse, misdemeanors) are mentioned, they are crimes against...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1976) 56 (4): 529–550.
Published: 01 November 1976
... States, begins, or sets on foot, or provides or prepares the means for, any military expedition or enterprise, to be carried on from thence against the territory or dominions of any foreign prince or state . . . with whom the United States are at peace, shall be deemed guilty of a high misdemeanor...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2003) 83 (2): 295–344.
Published: 01 May 2003
... risky, since they called authorities’ attention to misdemeanors or felonies that could bring the wrath of enraged authorities accused of malfeasance—such as accusations against the appearance of shantytown communities that violated immigration, sanitary, building, and housing ordinances. 86...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1996) 76 (2): 227–248.
Published: 01 May 1996
... finca , into his own property by extending his cultivation onto it. When Chen Sis protested to the jefatura , Leal first attempted, in vain, to get the Indian imprisoned, then claimed him as his mozo enganchado and demanded that he be made a zapador in punishment for his misdemeanor. Chen Sis...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2021) 101 (1): 73–99.
Published: 01 February 2021
..., a Socialist typesetter, was charged with libel for criticizing Governor Yager in his newspaper El Baluarte . The Code of Criminal Procedure of Porto Rico granted a jury trial for felony charges, not for misdemeanors such as libel. However, Balzac demanded a jury trial, invoking the US Constitution's Sixth...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2014) 94 (4): 547–579.
Published: 01 November 2014
..., misdemeanors, and frequent desertion aggravated a social situation in which the Spaniards had been unable to restore order in the areas affected by the British invasion. From the point of view of the colonial administration, the newcomers hindered local efforts to battle vice, crime, and disloyalty...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2007) 87 (1): 3–41.
Published: 01 February 2007
... Juárez’s presidency, the paper highlighted the defects of a system where, for example, public jobs (such as with the railways and the municipalities) were exchanged for votes. 118 It lamented election days as “shameful episodes” where all kinds of misdemeanors took place. 119 Unlike La Nación...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2005) 85 (1): 39–79.
Published: 01 February 2005
... have the power to punish certain misdemeanors—such as recantation, blasphemy, petty witchcraft, or demonic pacts—with the lash. But slaves had to be careful. Recanting was one thing, especially if a slave could show he or she was being abused. Heresy was another, and anyone who stepped over the line...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1989) 69 (4): 637–676.
Published: 01 November 1989
.... The other 99 were being held on the orders of the chief of police or his delegates, who after the 1841 judicial reform had legal authority to pass judgment and decree jail terms for most misdemeanor crimes. Of the total 111 inmates, 11 men were in for capoeira. None were slaves, and the times...
