Abstract
In the early twentieth century, Mexico experienced an increase in urban delinquency. At the end of the nineteenth century, the population of Mexico City, the capital of the Mexican Republic, had grown significantly. This increase in population was the result, among other factors, of the massive migration of people who came from the central and southern states of the country to the capital in search of work.1 Men of letters and the press recorded this fact and simultaneously forged the image of the dangerous criminal driven by murderous instincts and absolutely committed to the criminal underworld.2
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