Description: An analysis of the complex moral interpretations crime was given by Mexico's urban poor and of the evolving institutional responses to crime and punishment in modern Mexico.
Review Quotes: "An important, accessible book on a difficult and significant subject. City of Suspects will be warmly appreciated by historians of modern Mexico and historically-minded sociologists and political scientists who sympathize with Piccato's ambition to keep crime and the state within the same field of inquiry."-- William B. Taylor, University of California, Berkeley