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A History of Infamy: Crime, Truth, and Justice in Mexico

By Pablo Piccato
Hardcover
$95.00
By Pablo Piccato
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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 ri...

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HistoryLatin American HistoryMexican HistoryGeneral & Miscellaneous Mexican History