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The Killing Consensus [Elektronische Ressource] : Police, Organized Crime, and the Regulation of Life and Death in Urban Brazil

Denyer Willis, Graham,i1979-

Berkeley : University of California Press, 2015

217 p.

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978-0-520-28570-5

MI 84950 MS 6380 LB 49665

 

f Online-Publikation  São Paulo  Polizei  Mord  Organisiertes Verbrechen 

 

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978-0-520-96113-5

We hold many assumptions about police work-that it is the responsibility of the state, or that police officers are 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 arbitration of ""normal"" killing in the name of social order are actually conducted by two groups-the police and organized crime-both operating according to parallel logics of murder. Based on three years of ethnographic fieldwork, Willis's book traces how homicide detectives categorize two types of killing: the f...