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

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2002.Description: 1 online resource (xxi, 293 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780520928916
  • 0520928911
  • 1597349798
  • 9781597349796
  • 9780520234475
  • 0520234472
  • 0520234464
  • 9780520234468
  • 9786612356865
  • 6612356863
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Violence workers.DDC classification:
  • 323/.044/0981 22
LOC classification:
  • HV8183 .H84 2002eb
Online resources:
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.
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.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-281) and index.

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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.

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.

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