Popular injustice : violence, community, and law in Latin America
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Popular injustice : violence, community, and law in Latin America
Stanford University Press, 2006
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [201]-221) and index
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Description
Popular Injustice focuses on the spread of highly punitive forms of social control (known locally as mano dura) in contemporary Latin America. Many people have not only called for harsher punishments, such as longer prison sentences and the reintroduction of capital punishment, but also support vigilante practices like lynchings. In Guatemala, hundreds of these mob killings have occurred since the end of the country's armed conflict in 1996. Drawing on dozens of interviews with residents of lynching communities, Godoy argues that while these acts of violence do reveal widespread frustration with the criminal justice system, they are more than simply knee-jerk responses to crime. They demonstrate how community ties have been reshaped by decades of state violence and by the social and economic changes associated with globalization.
Table of Contents
Table of Contents Preface Chapter One: Examining Popular Injustice Chapter Two: Legacies of Terror in Postwar Guatemala Chapter Three: Militarization, Lynchings, and the Legacies of Terror Chapter Four: Modernization, Crime, and Communities in Crisis Chapter Five: Civil Society and the Contradictions of Neoliberal Democracy Chapter Six: Convergence at the Poles (and not at the Polls) Bibliography INDEX
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