City of suspects : crime in Mexico City, 1900-1931 /

City of suspects : crime in Mexico City, 1900-1931 / Pablo Piccato.

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This analysis of the multiple dimensions of crime in early 20th-century Mexico City examines the paradoxes of repressive policies toward crime and the impact of social rebellion on patterns of common crime.

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Bibliographic Details
Online Access:	Full Text (via Duke)
Main Author:	Piccato, Pablo (Author)
Other title:	Crime in Mexico City, 1900-1931.
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Durham ; London : Duke University Press, 2001.
Series:	Duke backfile.
Subjects:	Crime > Mexico > Mexico City. Criminals > Mexico > Mexico City. Working class > Mexico > Mexico City. Poor > Mexico > Mexico City. Crime. Criminals. Poor. Working class. Mexico > Mexico City.

Table of Contents:

1. The Context: The Modern City. The Policed City. The Construction of Mexican Criminology
2. The Practices. Honor and Violent Crime. Violence against Women. Money, Crime, and Social Reactions to Larceny
3. The Consequences: The Invention of Rateros. Penal Experience in Mexico City
Conclusions: Crime Contested
Appendix: Statistics of Crime.