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The Killing Consensus: Police, Organized Crime, and the Regulation of Life and Death in Urban Brazil
Graham Denyer Willis
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Description for The Killing Consensus: Police, Organized Crime, and the Regulation of Life and Death in Urban Brazil
Paperback. Shows how in Sao 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. Num Pages: 216 pages, 6 b/w, 1 map, 3 line drawings. BIC Classification: 1KLSB; JKV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 316.
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 Sao 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' book traces how homicide detectives categorize two types of killing: the first resulting ... Read more
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 Sao 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' book traces how homicide detectives categorize two types of killing: the first resulting ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of California Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Weight
314g
Number of Pages
216
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520285712
SKU
V9780520285712
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About Graham Denyer Willis
Graham Denyer Willis is a University Lecturer at the Centres of Development and Latin American Studies and a Fellow at Queens' College, University of Cambridge.
Reviews for The Killing Consensus: Police, Organized Crime, and the Regulation of Life and Death in Urban Brazil
"Weaving in detailed observations from years of fieldwork, Willis's ethnography is both a cautionary tale about the cyclical nature of unregulated violence and a critique of the system that facilitates such an arrangement." Survival: Global Politics and Strategy "An engaging and theoretically thorough interpretation of the public security challenge in urban Brazil." Luso-Brazilian Review