Violence workers : police torturers and murderers reconstruct Brazilian atrocities / Martha K. Huggins, Mika Haritos-Fatouros, and Philip G. Zimbardo.
by
 
Huggins, Martha Knisely, 1944-

ISBN
9780520928916
 
9781597349796
 
9780520234475

Title
Violence workers : police torturers and murderers reconstruct Brazilian atrocities / Martha K. Huggins, Mika Haritos-Fatouros, and Philip G. Zimbardo.

Author
Huggins, Martha Knisely, 1944-

Personal Author
Huggins, Martha Knisely, 1944-

Publication Information
Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2002.

Physical Description
1 online resource (xxi, 293 pages) : illustrations

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
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Subject Term
Police brutality -- Brazil.
 
Political atrocities -- Brazil.
 
Torture -- Brazil.

Added Author
Haritos-Fatouros, Mika, 1930-
 
Zimbardo, Philip G.

Format
Electronic Resources

Electronic Access
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Publication Date
2002

Publication Information
Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2002.


Shelf NumberMaterial TypeCopyShelf LocationStatus
323.0440981 221:E-BOOK11:ONLINEAvailable for online access and/or download