{"product_id":"a-history-of-infamy-crime-truth-and-justice-in-mexico-volume-4-paperback","title":"A History of Infamy: Crime, Truth, and Justice in Mexico Volume 4 - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003ePablo Piccato\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eA History of Infamy\u003c\/i\u003e explores the broken nexus between crime, justice, and truth in mid-twentieth-century Mexico. Faced with 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 period, criminal news and crime fiction flourished. Civil society's search for truth and justice led, paradoxically, to the normalization of extrajudicial violence and neglect of the rights of victims. As Pablo 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 crime and violence in our times.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"This is a highly original, important, and compelling contribution to the history of modern Mexico specifically and to the history of crime and punishment more generally. Pablo Piccato's broad range of primary sources is remarkable, as is his thoughtful engagement with scholarship from an equally broad range of disciplines.\"-- Robert Buffington, Professor of Women and Gender Studies, University of Colorado, Boulder\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eA History of Infamy \u003c\/i\u003eis one of the first studies to address the critical questions of crime and punishment in twentieth-century Mexico. More than a simple critique of state fecklessness in the administration of justice, it is a study in the expression of critical public opinion and the making of civil society. \u003ci\u003eA History of Infamy\u003c\/i\u003e is a highly original and timely contribution to our understanding of a country currently plagued by the very problems and promises the book addresses.\"-- Mary Kay Vaughan, author of \u003ci\u003ePortrait of a Young Painter: Pepe Zuñiga and Mexico City's Rebel Generation\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePablo Piccato\u003c\/b\u003e teaches Latin American history at Columbia University. He studied at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México and the University of Texas at Austin. His books include \u003ci\u003eCity of Suspects: Crime in Mexico City, 1900-1931\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Tyranny of Opinion: Honor and the Construction of the Mexican Public Sphere\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 368\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.86 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 25, 2017\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45054630494347,"sku":"9780520292628","price":82.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0670\/2579\/7259\/files\/Njg4WnEvOTFqc01Ed1RhUWFMS3RrZz09.webp?v=1767243315","url":"https:\/\/thetaletrade.com\/products\/a-history-of-infamy-crime-truth-and-justice-in-mexico-volume-4-paperback","provider":"The Tale Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}