Carceral Communities in Latin America

Chapter 1. Spiritual Life and the Rationalization of Violence: The State Within the State and Evangelical Order in a Venezuelan Prison; Luis Duno-Gottberg (Rice University, United States).
Chapter 2. Criminalizing Youth in Latin America: Looking at the Politics of Punishment and Incarceration in Honduras; Lirio Gutiérrez Rivera (National University of Colombia-Bogota).

Chapter 3. The ''Cemetery of the Living'': An Exploration of Disposal, (In)visibility, and Change-of-Attitude in Nicaraguan Prison; Julienne Weegels (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands).

Chapter 4. Facing the First Command of Capital (PCC): Regarding Ethnography of Brazil''s ''Biggest Prison Gang''; Karina Biondi (State University of Campinas, Brazil).

Chapter 5. Carceral Coloniality in Venezuela: Theorizing Beyond the Latin American Penal State; Cory Fischer-Hoffman (State University of New York-Albany, United States).

Chapter 6. The Bullet in the Glass. War, Death and the Meanings of Penitentiary Experience in Colombia; Libardo José Ariza and Manuel Iturralde (University of the Andes, Colombia).

Section One: The Prison Underworld.

Chapter 7. When Punishment is not Discipline. The Self-rule of Carceral Order in Venezuela; Andrés Antillano (Central University of Venezuela-Caracas).

Chapter 8. The Mata Escura Penal Compound: An analysis of the prison-neighborhood nexus in Northeast Brazil; Hollis Moore (University of Toronto, Canada).

Chapter 9. Fire Next Time: Gangs, State, and the Apocalyptic Image in Honduras; Jon Horne Carter (Appalachian State University, United States).

Chapter 10. ''My prisoners or yours?'' Conflicts of authority and legitimacy among criminal justice, civil society, and criminal actors in in Brazil; Fiona MaCauley (Bradford University, United Kingdom).

Chapter 11. Prison Order, Violence, and Representation in Venezuela; Chelina Sepúlveda and Iván Pojomovsky (Central University of Venezuela-Caracas).

Section Two: The Informal Prison.

Chapter 12. Everyday Survival and Construction of Brazilian Carcerality; Sacha Darke (University of Westminster, United Kingdom) and Oriana Hadler (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil).

Chapter 13. Love Triages the State: Female Visitors and Survival in Guatemala''s Prisons; Anthony W Fontes (University of Madison-Wisconsin, United States).

Chapter 14. ''He Beat Me'': How Intimate Partner Violence Contributes to the Incarceration of Women in Peru; Stephanie Campos (National Research and Development Institute-New York, United States).

Chapter 15. ''Eat To Forget''. The Dangers of Food in San Pedro Prison (La Paz, Bolivia); Francesca Cerbini (State University of Ceará-Fortaleza, Brazil).

Chapter 16. Prison Authority as the Exposure, or the Concealment, of Sexual Violence; Kristen Drybread (University of Colorado-Boulder, United States).

Chapter 17. Ecuador''s Prisons of Addiction: Treatment Centers amid Repressive Legal Frames; Ana Jácome (Latin American Faculty of the Social Sciences, FLACSO-Ecuador).

Conclusion