Introduction: writing the history of law, crime, and punishment in Latin America / Carlos Aguirre and Ricardo D. Salvatore
Crime in the time of the great fear: Indians and the state in the Peruvian Southern Andes / Charles F. Walker
Women, order, and progress in Guzman Blanco's Venezuela, 1870-1888 / Arlene J. Diaz
Judges, lawyers, and farmers: uses of justice and the circulation of law in rural Buenos Aires, 1900-1940 / Juan Manuel R. Palacio
Work, property, and the negotiation of rights in the Brazilian cane fields: Campos, Rio de Janeiro, 1930-1950 / Luis A. Gonzalez
The criminalization of the syphilitic body: prostitutes, health crimes, and society in Mexico City, 1867-1930 / Christina Rivera-Garza
Healing and mischief: witchcraft in Brazilian law and literature, 1890-1922 / Dain Borges
Passion, perversity, and the pace of justice in Argentina at the turn of the last century / Kristin Ruggiero
Cuidado con los rateros: the making of criminals in modern Mexico City / Pablo Piccato
The penalties of freedom: punishment in post-emancipation Jamaica / Diana Paton
Death and liberalism: capital punishment after the fall of Rosas / Ricardo D. Salvatore
Disputed views of incarceration in Lima, 1890-1930: the prisoners' agenda for prison reform / Carlos Aguirre
Girls in prison: the role of the Buenos Aires Casa Correccional de Mujeres as an institution for child rescue, 1890-1940 / Donna J. Guy
Remembering freedom: life as seen from the prison cell (Buenos Aires Province, 1930-1950) / Lila M. Caimari
Afterword: law and society in comparative perspective / Douglas Hay.