Description: Introduction 1. The Birth of the Penitentiary in Latin America: Toward an Interpretive Social History of Prisons (Ricardo D. Salvatore and Carlos Aguirre) 2. The Lima Penitentiary and the Modernization of Criminal Justice in Nineteenth-Century Peru (Carlos Aguirre) 3. Vicious Women, Virtuous Women: The Female Delinquent and the Santiago de Chile Correctional House, 1860-1900 (Mara Soledad Zrate Campos) 4. What the Eyes Can't See: Stories from Rio de Janeiro's Prisons (Marcos Luiz Bretas) 5. "Forcing Them to Work and Punishing Whoever Resisted": Servile Labor and Penal Servitude under Colonialism in Nineteenth-Century Puerto Rico (Kelvin A. Santiago-Valles) 6. Revolutionary Reform: Capitalist Development, Prison Reform, and Executive Power in Mexico (Robert Buffington) 7. Penitentiaries, Visions of Class, and Export Economies: Brazil and Argentina Compared (Ricardo D. Salvatore) 8. Confinement, Policing, and the Emergence of Social Policy in Costa Rica, 1880-1935 (Steven Palmer) Selected Bibliography Contributors Index

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