Violence workers : police torturers and murderers reconstruct Brazilian atrocities /
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| Author / Creator: | Huggins, Martha Knisely, 1944- author. |
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| Imprint: | Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2002. |
| Description: | 1 online resource (xxi, 293 pages) : illustrations |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11126682 |
| Summary: | Of the twenty-three Brazilian policemen interviewed in depth for this landmark study, fourteen were direct perpetrators of torture and murder during the three decades that included the 1964-1985 military regime. These "violence workers" and the other group of "atrocity facilitators" who had not, or claimed they had not, participated directly in the violence, help answer questions that haunt today's world: Why and how are ordinary men transformed into state torturers and murderers? How do atrocity perpetrators explain and justify their violence? What is the impact of their murderous deeds--on them, on their victims, and on society? What memories of their atrocities do they admit and which become public history? |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xxi, 293 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-281) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780520928916 0520928911 1597349798 9781597349796 9780520234475 0520234472 0520234464 9780520234468 9786612356865 6612356863 1282356860 9781282356863 |