Violence Workers Police Torturers and Murderers Reconstruct Brazilian Atrocities

Name: Violence Workers Police Torturers and Murderers Reconstruct Brazilian Atrocities
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ISBN: 9780520234475

ISBN-10: 0520234472

ISBN-13: 9780520234475

Edition: 2002

Authors: Martha K. Huggins, Mika Haritos-Fatouros, Philip G. Zimbardo

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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…

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List price: $31.95
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 11/21/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 314
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English



List of Illustrations Explanation of Illustrations


List of Tables and Figures


Acknowledgements


Preface


Introduction



Violent Lives



Reconstructing Atrocity



Locating Torturers and Murderers



Deposing Atrocity and Managing Secrecy



Biography Intersects History



Personalistic Masculinity



Bureaucratizing Masculinities



Blended Masculinity



Shaping Identities and Obedience: A Murderous Dynamic



Secret and Insular Worlds of Serial Torturers and Executioners



Moral Universe of Torturers and Murderers



Hung Out to Dry


Conclusion: The Alchemy of Torture and Execution: Transforming Ordinary Men into Violence Perpetrators