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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 | |