Violence Workers: Police Torturers and Murderers Reconstruct Brazilian Atrocities
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Book Overview
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?
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0520234472
ISBN13:9780520234475
Release Date:November 2002
Publisher:University of California Press
Length:314 Pages
Weight:0.96 lbs.
Dimensions:0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"
Customer Reviews
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Police Torturers Examined
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 19 years ago
An outstanding book, that took courage to put together-- telling with credibility and compassion about the torture to which the Brazilian police & military subjected citizens whom they saw as on the "wrong" side politically. The authors bring to light an evil we thought went out of fashion with the Inquisition -- but here it is again in the 20th century. They make it clear that the propensity to torture is part of the human condition, that comes out in certain times of stress -- and that, sadly, very few people or nations can resist resorting to
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