| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 111.1

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| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 111.1 | The History Cooperative

Carlos Aguirre. The Criminals of Lima and Their Worlds: The Prison Experience, 1850–1935. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press. 2005. Pp. xi, 310. Cloth $79.95, paper $22.95.
Carlos Aguirre begins his book by emphasizing that the prisons of Lima in the period 1850–1935, rather than being sites for the regeneration of criminals, were bastions of authoritarianism and exclusion whose operations reveal the excluding nature of the process of modernization in Peru. This familiar argument is followed, however, by a comprehensive and fascinating study, exhaustively researched, that brings together discourses, social and institutional processes and practices, and daily experiences.	1
In the first part of the book, Aguirre studies the emergence of the criminal question in Peru, the introduction of criminology, and the institutional development of the police and police practices. Aguirre's ample knowledge of Peruvian history allows him to demonstrate clearly that class and ethnicity were present in the discourses that practitioners of positivist criminology constructed, how workers attempted to separate their world from the criminal world, and how the police of Lima, in spite of their limitations, became an effective instrument of vigilance and control of specific sectors of the population.	. . .

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