A History of Infamy: Crime, Truth, and Justice in Mexico Volume 4 (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780520292628)

A History of Infamy explores the broken nexus between crime, justice, and truth in mid-twentieth-century Mexico. Faced with the violence and impunity that defined politics, policing, and the judicial system in post-revolutionary times, Mexicans sought truth and justice outside state institutions. During this period, criminal news and crime fiction flourished. Civil society's search for truth and justice led, paradoxically, to the normalization of extrajudicial violence and neglect of the rights of victims. As Pablo Piccato demonstrates, ordinary people in Mexico have made crime and punishment central concerns of the public sphere during the last century, and in doing so have shaped crime and violence in our times.

Author: Pablo Piccato
ISBN-10: 0520292626
ISBN-13: 9780520292628
Publisher: University of California Press
Language: English
Published: 04/25/2017
Pages: 368
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.25lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.86d