Pablo Picatto: Violences in Mexico

Most recent books:

A Brief History of Violence in Mexico

City of Suspects:  Crime in Mexico City, 1900–1931City of Suspects:  Crime in Mexico City, 1900–1931

 On YouTube: The Assassination of Alvaro Obregon

Sample Chapters on Box

Picatto's Bibliography

Books (Authored)

• Piccato, Pablo. A Brief History of Violence in Mexico. Translated by Quentin Pope. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2025.
• Piccato, Pablo. Historia mínima de la violencia en México. Mexico City: El Colegio de México, 2022.
• Piccato, Pablo. A History of Infamy: Crime, Truth, and Justice in Mexico. Oakland: University of California Press, 2017.
• Piccato, Pablo. The Tyranny of Opinion: Honor in the Construction of the Mexican Public Sphere. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2010.
• Piccato, Pablo. City of Suspects: Crime in Mexico City, 1900-1931. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2001.

Books (Edited)

• Buffington, Robert, and Pablo Piccato, eds. True Stories of Crime in Modern Mexico. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2009.

Journal Articles

• Piccato, Pablo. "The Public Sphere and Liberalism in Mexico: From the Mid-19th Century to the 1930s." Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Latin American History (August 2018). https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780199366439.013.266.
• Piccato, Pablo. "Crime, Truth, and Justice in Modern Mexico: Notes for a National History." The Americas 73, no. 4 (October 2016): 491-512.
• Piccato, Pablo. "Murders of Nota Roja: Truth and Justice in Mexican Crime News." Past & Present 223, no. 1 (May 2014): 195-231.
• Piccato, Pablo. "Public Sphere in Latin America: A Map of the Historiography." Social History 35, no. 2 (2010): 165-92.
• Piccato, Pablo. "El significado político del homicidio en México en el siglo XX." Cuicuilco 15, no. 43 (2008): 57-80.
• Piccato, Pablo. "Politics and the Technology of Honor: Dueling in Turn-of-the-Century Mexico." Journal of Social History 33, no. 2 (Winter 1999): 331-54.
• Buffington, Robert, and Pablo Piccato. "Tales of Two Women: The Narrative Construal of Porfirian Reality." The Americas 55, no. 3 (January 1999): 391-424.
• Piccato, Pablo. "'El Paso de Venus por el disco del Sol': Criminality and Alcoholism in the Late Porfiriato." Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos 11, no. 2 (Summer 1995): 203-41.

Book Chapters

• Piccato, Pablo. "Pistoleros." In Hampones, pelados y pecatrices: Sujetos peligrosos de la Ciudad de México (1940-1960), edited by Susana Sosenski and Gabriela Pulido Llano, 145-84. Mexico City: Fondo de Cultura Económica, 2020.
• Piccato, Pablo. "Notes for a History of the Press in Mexico." In Journalism, Satire, and Censorship in Modern Mexico, edited by Benjamin Smith, Paul Gillingham, and Michael Lettieri, 33-60. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2018.
• Piccato, Pablo. "Ley Fuga as Justice: The Consensus around Extrajudicial Violence in Twentieth-Century Mexico." In Violence and Crime in Latin America: Representations and Politics, edited by Gema Santamaría and David Carey Jr., 23-43. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2017.
• Piccato, Pablo. "A Historical Perspective on Crime Fiction in Mexico During the Middle Decades of the Twentieth Century." In The Oxford Handbook of the History of Crime and Criminal Justice, edited by Paul Knepper and Anja Johansen, 353-72. New York: Oxford University Press, 2016.
• Piccato, Pablo. "Pistoleros, Ley Fuga, and Uncertainty in Public Debates about Murder in Twentieth-Century Mexico." In Dictablanda: Politics, Work, and Culture in Mexico, 1938-1968, edited by Paul Gillingham and Benjamin Smith, 321-41. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2014.
• Piccato, Pablo. "Murder as Politics in Modern Mexico." In Murder and Violence in Modern Latin America, edited by Eric A. Johnson, Ricardo D. Salvatore, and Pieter Spierenburg, 104-25. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2013.