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List of Maps, Illustrations, and Tables | |
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Acknowledgments | |
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Abbreviations | |
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Introduction: Anthropology with an Accent | |
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The Talk of Crime | |
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Talking of Crime and Ordering the World | |
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Crime as a Disorganizing Experience and an Organizing Symbol | |
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Violence and Signification | |
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From Progress to Economic Crisis, from Authoritarianism to Democracy | |
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Crisis, Criminals, and the Spread of Evil | |
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Limits to Modernization | |
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Going Down Socially and Despising the Poor | |
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The Experiences of Violence | |
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Dilemmas of Classification and Discrimination | |
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Evil and Authority | |
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Violent Crime and the Failure of the Rule of Law | |
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The Increase in Violent Crime | |
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Tailoring the Statistics | |
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Crime Trends, 1973-1996 | |
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Looking for Explanations | |
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The Police | |
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A Long History of Abuses | |
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A Critique of the Incomplete Modernity Model | |
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Organization of the Police Forces | |
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A Tradition of Transgressions | |
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Police Violence under Democracy | |
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Escalating Police Violence | |
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Promoting a "Tough" Police | |
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The Massacre at the Casa de Detenccedil;atilde;o | |
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The Police from the Citizens' Point of View | |
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Security as a Private Matter | |
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The Cycle of Violence | |
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Urban Segregation, Fortified Enclaves, and Public Space | |
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Satilde;o Paulo | |
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Three Patterns of Spatial Segregation | |
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The Concentrated City of Early Industrialization | |
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Center-Periphery | |
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The Dispersed City | |
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Proximity and Walls in the 198s and 199s | |
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Fortified Enclaves | |
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Building Up Walls and Creating a New Private Order | |
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Private Worlds for the Elite | |
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From Corticcedil;os to Luxury Enclaves | |
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A Total Way of Life | |
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Advertising Residential Enclaves for the Rich | |
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Keeping Order inside the Walls | |
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Resisting the Enclaves | |
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An Aesthetic of Security | |
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The Implosion of Modern Public Life | |
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The Modern Ideal of Public Space and City Life | |
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Garden City and Modernism | |
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The Lineage of the Fortified Enclave | |
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Street Life | |
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Incivility and Aggression | |
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Experiencing the Public | |
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The Neo-international Style | |
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Satilde;o Paulo and Los Angeles | |
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Contradictory Public Space | |
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Violence, Civil Rights, and the Body | |
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Violence, the Unbounded Body, and the Disregard for Rights in Brazilian Democracy Human Rights as "Privileges for Bandits" | |
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Debating Capital Punishment | |
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Punishment as Private and Painful Vengeance | |
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Body and Rights | |
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Appendix | |
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Notes | |
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References | |
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Index | |