The Criminals of Lima and Their Worlds: The Prison Experience, 1850-1935
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The Criminals of Lima and Their Worlds is the first major historical study of the creation and development of the prison system in Peru. Carlos Aguirre examines the evolution of prisons for male criminals in Lima from the conception-in the early 1850s-of the initial plans to build penitentiaries through the early-twentieth-century prison reforms undertaken as part of President Augusto Leguia's attempts to modernize and expand the Peruvian state...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0822334690
ISBN13:9780822334699
Release Date:January 2005
Publisher:Duke University Press
Length:328 Pages
Weight:1.05 lbs.
Dimensions:0.8" x 6.0" x 9.3"
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