Author : Pablo Piccato
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520292618
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)
Book Synopsis A History of Infamy by : Pablo Piccato
Download or read book A History of Infamy written by Pablo Piccato and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A History of Infamy explores the broken nexus between crime, justice, and the truth in mid-twentieth-century Mexico. Facing 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 time, the criminal news beat and crime fiction flourished. Civil society's search for truth and justice lead, paradoxically, to the normalization of extrajudicial violence and neglect for the rights of victims. As 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 how crime and violence took form over time"--Provided by publisher.