Crime and Punishment in pre-Hispanic Nahua City-States Tenochtitlan and Texcoco

Datos Bibliográficos

ID15068627
AutoresPeter Vyšný (0000-0001-5132-1291, Department of Legal History Trnava University, Trnava , Slovakia, autor de correspondencia)
Año2016
Volumen17
Número1
Páginas39-59
Fecha de publicación2016-06-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaEthnologia Actualis (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1339-7834 • E-ISSN: 1339-7877
EditorialWalter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE)
DOI10.1515/eas-2017-0008
OpenAlexW2793235528
IdiomaEN
Referencias citadas14

The article focuses on the delinquency existing in pre-Hispanic Tenochtitlan and Texcoco as a particular type of human behavior, having many concrete forms that the wider society perceived (and condemned) through certain concepts and that it sought to both prevent and suppress. The first part of the article deals with the reflections and forms of delinquency existing in Tenochtitlan and Texcoco. In the second part of the article the mechanisms of prevention and repression of delinquency are examined. Although the pre- Hispanic society existing in Tenochtitlan and Texcoco can be considered as a so-called shame culture, in the conclusion of the article it is suggested that it could be a shame culture, which over time has changed, to a certain extent, to a so-called guilt culture

Criminology · Juvenile delinquency · Shame · Sociology · Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights · Latin American history and culture · Psychedelics and Drug Studies · Psychology · Social Psychology