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The Criminals of Lima and Their Worlds: The Prison Experience, 1850-1935

The Criminals of Lima and Their Worlds: The Prison Experience, 1850-1935

Aguirre, Carlos

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Criminology

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ISBN10: 0822334577
ISBN13: 9780822334576
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: Jan 27 2005
Pages: 328
Weight: 1.35
Height: 1.30 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.40
Language: English
The Criminals of Lima and Their Worlds is the first major historical study of the creation and development of the prison system in Peru. Carlos Aguirre examines the evolution of prisons for male criminals in Lima from the conception--in the early 1850s--of the initial plans to build penitentiaries through the early-twentieth-century prison reforms undertaken as part of President Augusto Leguia's attempts to modernize and expand the Peruvian state. Aguirre reconstructs the social, cultural, and doctrinal influences that determined how lawbreakers were treated, how programs of prison reform fared, and how inmates experienced incarceration. He argues that the Peruvian prisons were primarily used not to combat crime or to rehabilitate allegedly deviant individuals, but rather to help reproduce and maintain an essentially unjust social order. In this sense, he finds that the prison system embodied the contradictory and exclusionary nature of modernization in Peru.

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