The Criminals of Lima and Their Worlds: The Prison Experience, 1850-1935

by Carlos Aguirre

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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"

Related Subjects

Criminology History Latin America Modern (16th-21st Centuries) Peru Social Science Social Sciences South America Textbooks

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