Professor Carlos Aguirre
Department of History
University of Oregon

Internet Resources on Crime, Police, and Punishment

The Lima penitentiary

Prisons in Latin America and the Caribbean (Human Rights Watch Prison Project) Behind Bars in Brazil (Human Rights Watch) Prisons in South America: Which Way Out? (Julita Lemgruber) Prison Issues Desk (Prison Activist Resource Center) Prison Law Page Crime and Punishment in Latin American History. A Bibliographical Essay Penal Reform International Rising Violence and the Criminal Justice Response in Latin America (UT Austin Workshop, May 1999) Lurigancho prison: Lima’s ‘high school’ for criminality Debt to Society (Mother Jones’ Special Report on US Prisons) Prisons in the UK (Special Report, The Guardian) Chicano Mexicano Prison Project 360 degrees. Perspectives on the US Criminal Justice System Western Prison Project Critical Resistance Prison Activist Resource Center Prison Sucks California Prison Focus Talk Left. The Politics of Crime Searching the Criminal Body: Art/Science/Prejudice Las Prisiones de Franco (Museo de Historia de Cataluña)