Call for Papers. Society for Latin American Studies (SLAS 2003) - Hulme
Hall, Manchester, 11-13 April

Crime, Punishment and the Body in Latin American History

Organizers
Paulo Drinot, St Anthony's College, Oxford and Ernesto Bohoslavsky, Universidad Nacional de Comahue, Buenos Aires

This symposium will consider how crime, punishment and the body, and the ideas produced about them, have interacted in Latin American history, with special emphasis on the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Among other themes, the symposium will explore how criminology has been received, adopted and adapted in Latin America; the policies and institutions aimed at studying, preventing, repressing and 're-educating' delinquents; 'deviant' behaviour and the social, ethnic and gendered constructions of deviancy; conceptions of the body, 'criminal' or otherwise, and the ways in which bodies have been acted upon (confinement, torture, homicide, suicide, etc); and the relationship between politics and views on criminal activity, policing and the judiciary. Some of the topics to be considered include: Criminal, police and judiciary reforms; Homicide; Suicide; Infanticide; Rape; Corporal punishment; The death penalty; Sodomy; Forced labour; Prison regimes; Penal servitude; Torture; Honour and crime; Images of the criminal body.

Contact:
Paulo Drinot
E-mail: paulo.drinot@sant.ox.ac.uk
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