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City of Suspects - Crime in Mexico City, 1900-1931 (Paperback)
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City of Suspects - Crime in Mexico City, 1900-1931 (Paperback)
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In "City of Suspects" Pablo Piccato explores the multiple
dimensions of crime in early-twentieth-century Mexico City. Basing
his research on previously untapped judicial sources, prisoners'
letters, criminological studies, quantitative data, newspapers, and
political archives, Piccato examines the paradoxes of repressive
policies toward crime, the impact of social rebellion on patterns
of common crime, and the role of urban communities in dealing with
transgression on the margins of the judical system.
By investigating postrevolutionary examples of corruption and
organized crime, Piccato shines light on the historical foundations
of a social problem that remains the main concern of Mexico City
today. Emphasizing the social construction of crime and the way it
was interpreted within the moral economy of the urban poor, he
describes the capital city during the early twentieth century as a
contested territory in which a growing population of urban poor had
to negotiate the use of public spaces with more powerful citizens
and the police. Probing official discourse on deviance, Piccato
reveals how the nineteenth-century rise of positivist
criminology--which asserted that criminals could be readily
distinguished from the normal population based on psychological and
physical traits--was used to lend scientific legitimacy to class
stratifications and to criminalize working-class culture.
Furthermore, he argues, the authorities' emphasis on punishment,
isolation, and stigmatization effectively created cadres of
professional criminals, reshaping crime into a more dangerous
problem for all inhabitants of the capital.
This unique investigation into crime in Mexico City will interest
Latin Americanists, sociologists, and historians of
twentieth-century Mexican history.
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