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

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910782910503321
• Autore: Huggins Martha Knisely <1944->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2002
• ISBN: 9786612356865; 1-282-35686-0; 0-520-92891-1; 1-59734-979-8
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (316 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): Haritos-FatourosMika <1930->; ZimbardoPhilip G
• Disciplina: 323/.044/0981
• Soggetti: Police brutality - Brazil; Political atrocities - Brazil; Torture - Brazil
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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?