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1016784
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b771154
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| Main Entry
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Huggins, Martha Knisely,1944-
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Violence workers : : police torturers and murderers reconstruct Brazilian atrocities /\ Martha K. Huggins, Mika Haritos-Fatouros, and Philip G. Zimbardo.
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| Publication Statement
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Berkeley :: University of California Press,, ©2002.
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1 online resource (xxi, 293 pages) :: illustrations
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| ISBN
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0520234464
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: 0520234472
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: 0520928911
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: 1597349798
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: 6612356863
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: 9780520234468
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: 9780520234475
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: 9780520928916
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: 9781597349796
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: 9786612356865
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1282356860
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9781282356863
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-281) and index.
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| Contents
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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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| Abstract
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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.
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Police brutality-- Brazil.
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Political atrocities-- Brazil.
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Torture-- Brazil.
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Police brutality.
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Political atrocities.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE-- Political Freedom Security-- Civil Rights.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE-- Political Freedom Security-- Human Rights.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE-- Anthropology-- Cultural.
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Torture.
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Geweld.
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Martelen.
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Politie.
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Psychologische aspecten.
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Brazil.
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Brazilië
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| Dewey Classification
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323/.044/0981
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| LC Classification
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HV8183.H84 2002eb
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| Added Entry
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Haritos-Fatouros, Mika,1930-2014
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Zimbardo, Philip G.
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