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

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"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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Denyer Willis, Graham, 1979- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2015]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Homicide > Enquêtes > Bresil > São Paulo.
Crime organise > Bresil > São Paulo.
Police.
Organized crime.
Homicide investigation.
Homicide.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Criminology.
Organized crime > Brazil > São Paulo.
Police > Brazil > São Paulo.
Homicide investigation > Brazil > São Paulo.
Homicide > Brazil > São Paulo.
Brazil > São Paulo.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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?

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