A history of infamy : crime, truth, and justice in Mexico / Pablo Piccato.
"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 institutio...
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Oakland, California :
University of California Press,
[2017]
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| Series: | Violence in Latin American history ;
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : a national history of infamy
- From transparency to darkness : justice and publicity in the mirror of criminal juries
- A look at the crime scene : the nota roja and the public pursuit of truth
- Lost detectives : policemen, torture, ley fuga
- Horrible crimes : murderers as authors
- Careful guys : pistoleros and the business of politics
- Our times, our perspectives : the emergence of Mexican crime fiction
- Our models of dread : crime as revenge, justice, and art
- Conclusion : trying to keep our eyes open.