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Crime and Justice, Volume 54

A Review of Research

Edited by Michael Tonry

University of Chicago Press Journals, 2025

Critical state-of-the-art reviews exploring a range of subjects concerning crime, its causes, and its cures.

Since 1979, Crime and Justice: A Review of Research has presented reviews of the latest international research in criminology and criminal justice, providing expertise to enhance the work of sociologists, psychologists, criminal lawyers, criminologists, and political scientists. Volume 54 publishes first-rate review essays by leading scholars that summarize what is known about both cutting-edge and enduring subjects, what needs to be known, and how that might be accomplished. The wide-ranging, multidisciplinary topics covered include crime trends, immigration and crime, mass incarceration, money laundering, penal policy in Eastern and Central Europe, criminal frauds, the concept of lesser eligibility, and W. E. B. Du Bois’s unheralded contributions to criminology.
 
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cover of Sexual Encounters/Sexual Collisions: Alternative Sexualities in Colonial Mesoamerica, Volume 54

Sexual Encounters/Sexual Collisions

Alternative Sexualities in Colonial Mesoamerica, Volume 54

Pete Sigal and John F. Chuchiak IV, eds.

Duke University Press, 0

This special issue of Ethnohistory explores the relationships among sexuality, power, and desire in colonial Mesoamerica. Investigating conflicts over sexuality, the essays illustrate the importance of sexual behaviors and desires in negotiating identities and complex power relations in the Mesoamerican world. Taken together, they make a compelling argument that an understanding of the role of sexuality is as essential to the study of Latin America as is knowledge about political economy, social organization, ethnicity, and gender.

One contributor considers a criminal case in seventeenth-century Mexico that demonstrates that the negotiation of homosexual identity was much more complex than the model of domination and submission often believed to structure Latin American male homosexual relationships. Another contributor examines how priests in Mayan communities attempted to use the confessional and confessional manuals to promote their own notions of sexual desire and ownership of indigenous women, only to have their efforts turned against them, with Mayan women using the texts to assert strategic dominance over the priests. Yet another essay, focusing on the treatment of a hermaphrodite in late colonial Guatemala, examines how the hermaphrodite’s traits undermined or called into question Enlightenment-era ideas about sex and gender.

Contributors. John F. Chuchiak IV, Martha Few, Kimberly Gauderman, Laura A. Lewis, Caterina Pizzigoni, Pete Sigal, Zeb Tortorici, Neil L. Whitehead

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