| Description |
1 online resource (xxi, 293 pages) : illustrations |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-281) and index. |
| Summary |
Of the 23 Brazilian policemen interviewed in depth for this landmark study, 14 were direct perpetrators of torture and murder during the three decades that included the 1964-1985 military regime. The policemen help answer questions that haunt today's world. |
| Contents |
List of Tables, Figures, and Photographs; Acknowledgments; Preface; Introduction; 1. Violent Lives; 2. Reconstructing Atrocity; 3. Locating Torturers and Murderers; 4. Deposing Atrocity and Managing Secrecy; 5. Biography Intersects History; 6. Personalistic Masculinity; 7. Bureaucratizing Masculinity; 8. Blended Masculinity; 9. Shaping Identities and Obedience: A Murderous Dynamic; 10. Secret and Insular Worlds of Serial Torturers and Executioners; 11. Moral Universes of Torturers and Murderers; 12. Hung Out to Dry; Conclusion: The Alchemy of Torture and Execution; References; Index. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Police brutality -- Brazil.
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Police brutality. |
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Brazil. |
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Political atrocities -- Brazil.
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Political atrocities. |
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Torture -- Brazil.
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Torture. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Casestudies (vorm)
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| Added Author |
Haritos-Fatouros, Mika, 1930-2014.
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Zimbardo, Philip G.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Huggins, Martha Knisely, 1944- Violence workers. Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2002 0520234464 0520234472 (DLC) 2002022331 (OCoLC)49225729 |
| ISBN |
9780520928916 (electronic book) |
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0520928911 (electronic book) |
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1597349798 |
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9781597349796 |
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9780520234475 |
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0520234472 |
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1282356860 |
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9781282356863 |
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