Year: 1998
Type: article
Abstract: Q uite recently, a series of research projects, stemming from various sub- disciplines and informed by distinct methodological perspectives, have begun to converge towards a common territory which, for lack of a better name, I shall call crime and justice history.Studies of banditry, prostitution, street violence, policing, prisons, corporal punishment, ideologies of social order, indigenous litigation, the legal profession, and judicial practices -to name only the principal groupings -have opened up a field of inquiry which, in approach, sensibility, and subject matter, seems quite distinct from the old legal history, as it was practiced in Latin America 2 .These new concerns and new sensibilities -gender studies, subaltern or « bottom-up » history, discourse analysis, ethnographies of modernity, the history of the disciplines, questions of hegemony and social order, studies of democratization, etc. -have produced an accumulation of insights and evidence on issues that are, in reality, quite traditional: crime, law, justice, and punishment.Methodologically eclectic and with fuzzy borders, this « new » field seems to be enjoying a period of remarkable vitality.
Source: Crime Histoire et Sociétés
DOI: 10.4000/chs.960
Author: Ricardo D. Salvatore
Language: French
Subfield: Law
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W2045970583