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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Huggins, Martha Knisely, 1944-

Contributor:

Haritos-Fatouros, Mika, 1930-

Zimbardo, Philip G.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Police brutality--Brazil.

Police brutality.

Political atrocities--Brazil.

Political atrocities.

Torture--Brazil.

Torture.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (316 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, c2002.

Language Note:

English

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?

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

List of Tables, Figures, and Photographs

Acknowledgments

Preface

Introduction

Chapter 1. Violent Lives

Chapter 2. Reconstructing Atrocity

Chapter 3. Locating Torturers and Murderers

Chapter 4. Deposing Atrocity and Managing Secrecy

Chapter 5. Biography Intersects History

Chapter 6. Personalistic Masculinity

Chapter 7. Bureaucratizing Masculinity

Chapter 8. Blended Masculinity

Chapter 9. Shaping Identities and Obedience

chapter 10 Secret and Insular Worlds of Serial Torturers and Executioners

Chapter 11. Moral Universes of Torturers and Murderers

Chapter 12. Hung Out to Dry

Conclusion. The Alchemy of Torture and Execution

References

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.

ISBN:

9786612356865

9781282356863

1282356860

9780520928916

0520928911

9781597349796

1597349798

OCLC:

475931027