Abstract

PALMA ALVARADO, Daniel. Economic Crimes in Chile: Historical Antecedents of White Collar Crime, 1880-1920. Hist. mex. [online]. 2021, vol.70, n.3, pp.1361-1396.  Epub Feb 19, 2021. ISSN 2448-6531.  https://doi.org/10.24201/hm.v70i3.4186.

This article examines economic crimes, which, to date, have been little problematized from the field of the social and cultural history of crime. On the one hand, it presents some of the conceptualizations of this phenomenon and reviews their relevance for historical analysis. On the other, it offers a case study based in Chile during the final decades of the 19th Century and the first decades of the 20th.

The sources include theoretical literature, press clippings and court documents that allow us to identify the constitutive elements of these crimes and some of their social representations, with an emphasis on the satirical and popular press.

The contribution of this article consists of making visible a series of practices that, over the long term, have been at the base of the process of the construction and reproduction of the capitalist social and economic order, up to the present day.

Keywords : Chile; Economic Crimes; White Collar Crimes; Corruption; Thieves.

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