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Popular Injustice - Violence, Community, and Law in Latin America (Hardcover)
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Popular Injustice - Violence, Community, and Law in Latin America (Hardcover)
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Popular Injustice focuses on the spread of highly punitive forms of
social control (known locally as mano dura) in contemporary Latin
America. Many people have not only called for harsher punishments,
such as longer prison sentences and the reintroduction of capital
punishment, but also support vigilante practices like lynchings. In
Guatemala, hundreds of these mob killings have occurred since the
end of the country's armed conflict in 1996. Drawing on dozens of
interviews with residents of lynching communities, Godoy argues
that while these acts of violence do reveal widespread frustration
with the criminal justice system, they are more than simply
knee-jerk responses to crime. They demonstrate how community ties
have been reshaped by decades of state violence and by the social
and economic changes associated with globalization.
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