Luiz Dal Santo is a DPhil candidate at the Oxford Centre for Criminology and a Tutor in Criminology at Hertford College and St Catherine’s College. He also teaches in graduate programmes in criminology and law in Brazil.Máximo Sozzo is Professor of Sociology of Law and Criminology at the National University of Litoral, Argentina, and Leverhulme Visiting Professor at the School of Law, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom.

• Introduction. Punishment in Latin America: Explorations from the Margins; Luiz Dal Santo and Máximo SozzoSection One. Penal TrajectoriesChapter 1. From Senzalas to Dungeons: The Constitution of the Penitentiary System in Brazil; André R. GiamberardinoChapter 2. Punitive Turn or Punitive Imperialism? Analyzing the Transformation in the Ecuadorian Penal Real; Martha Vargas AguirreChapter 3. Criminal Justice Reform, Americanization, and Conviction without Trial in Argentina; Máximo SozzoSection Two. Prison Order and Prison LifeChapter 4. Contemporary Prison Management in Chile: Disputes about Order; Olga Espinoza M.Chapter 5. In/Out: Revisiting the Relationships between Prisons and Slums in Latin America; Andres AntillanoChapter 6. The Arrival of the Risk Paradigm to Prison Management in Uruguay; Ana Vigna and Santiago Sosa BarónChapter 7. The Inca’s Two Bodies: The Prison Condition in Latin America; Libardo José Ariza and Fernando León Tamayo ArboledaSection Three. Theoretical ExchangesChapter 8. Actuarial and Managerial Justice: Theoretical and Empirical Impacts on Latin-American Criminological Realm; Mariano Sicardi and Claudio González GuardaChapter 9. Is Vigilantism an ‘Extralegal’ Phenomenon?; Diego TuestaChapter 10. Southern Green Victimology: A Look at the Cycle of Environmental Harms, Resistance and Over-Criminalization; Valeria Vegh Weis