Popular Injustice : Violence, Community, and Law in Latin America / Angelina Snodgrass Godoy.
2022
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Title
Popular Injustice : Violence, Community, and Law in Latin America / Angelina Snodgrass Godoy.
Imprint
Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press, [2022]
Copyright
©2006
Description
1 online resource (256 p.)
Formatted Contents Note
Frontmatter
Contents
Acknowledgments
Preface
1. Examining Popular Injustice
2. Legacies of Terror in Postwar Guatemala
3. Militarization and Lynchings
4. Modernization, Crime, and Communities in Crisis
5. Civil Society and the Contradictions of Neoliberal Democracy
6. Convergence at the Poles . . . and Not on the Polls
Notes
References
Index
Contents
Acknowledgments
Preface
1. Examining Popular Injustice
2. Legacies of Terror in Postwar Guatemala
3. Militarization and Lynchings
4. Modernization, Crime, and Communities in Crisis
5. Civil Society and the Contradictions of Neoliberal Democracy
6. Convergence at the Poles . . . and Not on the Polls
Notes
References
Index
Summary
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.
Language Note
In English.
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Issued also in print.
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Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
Source of Description
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DeGruyter online
Language
English
ISBN
9781503625754
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