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

by Carlos Aguirre

Book Overview

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"