Table of Contents

1. Introduction: Endless Transitions; 2. The Legal Architecture of Colonial Criminal Justice in Buenos Aires; 3. The Administration of Criminal Justice in Buenos Aires, 1795-1810; 4. Changes and Continuities in Criminal Law after 1810; 5. The Emergence of Republican Penal Discourse in Buenos Aires; 6. Administering Criminal Justice in Buenos Aires, 1810-1853; 7. Conclusion: Past and Present of the Criminal Justice System in Argentina

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Analyses the development of the criminal justice system in Argentina

About the Author

Osvaldo Barreneche is an associate professor of history at the Universidad Nacional de La Plata in Argentina.

Reviews

“Barreneche’s book is an important contribution to legal history and to the debates on state formation, focusing on the transformations of the legal apparatus and the ‘architecture of the system’ during the middle period. . . . This study will be appreciated by legal and social historians interested in the transition from colony to nation in Latin America.”—Fabrício Prado, Hispanic American Historical Review