Carlos Aguirre, The Criminals of Lima and their Worlds. The Prison Experience, 1850-1935

Abstract

Carlos Aguirre presents the first major study of prison reform & the prison system in Peru, & one of the few social histories of criminals & their world in Latin America. I. Apprehending the criminal -- 1. The emergence of the criminal question (1850-1890) -- 2. The science of the criminal (1890-1930) -- 3. Policing and the making of a criminal class -- II. Prisons and prison communities -- 4. Lima's penal archipelago -- 5. Faites, Rateros, and disgraced gentlemen : Lima's male prison communities -- III. The world they made together -- 6. Daily life in prison -- I : the customary order -- 7. Daily life in prison -- II : prison subcultures and living conditions -- 8. Beyond the customary order.