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The Killing Consensus : Police, Organized Crime, and the Regulation of Life and Death in Urban Brazil /

"We hold many assumptions about police work -- that it is the responsibility of the state, or that police officers be given the right to kill in the name of public safety or self-defense. But in The Killing Consensus, Graham Denyer Willis shows how in São Paulo, Brazil, killing and the arbitra...

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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Denyer Willis, Graham, 1979- (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2015]
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Part 1: Surviving. Introduction: Sovreignty by consensus. Surviving Sao Paolo ; Regulations of killing
  • part 2: Killing. Homicide ; Resistencias ; The killing consensus ; A consensus killed
  • Part 3: Debate. The powerful? ; Toward an ideal subordination?