Social Banditism is an important topic in societies with a large number of peasants. There are a large number of researches in this area. These topics come to Social History with the former studies of Eric Hobsbawm, in the sixties, and were frequently analyzed by other historians. The interest in this topic decayed in last years. If this thematic was so important in Latin American societies, was because the former interest of the national literature in rural characters, and special in revolted peasant. The objective of this article is to discuss actual studies in this field of research.
Social Banditism; Latin America; social History