TY - BOOK ID - 78281660 TI - A History of Infamy : Crime, Truth, and Justice in Mexico PY - 2017 SN - 9780520292628 0520292626 9780520292611 9780520966079 0520966074 PB - Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, DB - UniCat KW - Crime KW - Crime and the press KW - Crime writing KW - Justice, Administration of KW - Administration of justice KW - Law KW - Courts KW - Writing, Crime KW - Authorship KW - Crime reporting (Journalism) KW - Press and crime KW - Trial reporting KW - Trials KW - Trials in the press KW - Press KW - Free press and fair trial KW - City crime KW - Crime and criminals KW - Crimes KW - Delinquency KW - Felonies KW - Misdemeanors KW - Urban crime KW - Social problems KW - Criminal justice, Administration of KW - Criminal law KW - Criminals KW - Criminology KW - Transgression (Ethics) KW - History KW - History and criticism. KW - Law and legislation KW - Press coverage KW - Social aspects KW - Criminology. Victimology KW - anno 1900-1999 KW - Mexico KW - History and criticism KW - 20th century. KW - crime and punishment. KW - crime fiction. KW - crime. KW - criminal investigation. KW - criminal justice. KW - criminal law. KW - criminal. KW - danger. KW - history. KW - judicial system. KW - justice system. KW - justice. KW - latin america. KW - mexican government. KW - mexican politics. KW - mexican. KW - mexico. KW - police system. KW - police. KW - policing. KW - political. KW - politics. KW - post revolution. KW - public sphere. KW - revolution. KW - revolutionary. KW - safety. KW - social history. KW - true crime. KW - violence. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78281660 AB - A History of Infamy 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. ER -