Violence workers : police torturers and murderers reconstruct Brazilian atrocities /

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Author / Creator:	Huggins, Martha Knisely, 1944- author.
Imprint:	Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2002.
Description:	1 online resource (xxi, 293 pages) : illustrations
Language:	English
Subject:	Police brutality -- Brazil. Political atrocities -- Brazil. Torture -- Brazil. Police brutality. Political atrocities. Torture. Brazil. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11126682

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Other authors / contributors:	Haritos-Fatouros, Mika, 1930-2014, author. Zimbardo, Philip G., author.
ISBN:	9780520928916 0520928911 1597349798 9781597349796 9780520234475 0520234472 0520234464 9780520234468 9786612356865 6612356863 1282356860 9781282356863
Digital file characteristics:	text file
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-281) and index. English. Print version record.
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.
Other form:	Print version: Huggins, Martha Knisely, 1944- Violence workers. Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2002 0520234464 0520234472

Table of 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.

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