Violence Workers

Violence Workers is an interview study of 23 Brazilian police officers who were in service during or immediatly after Brazil's military period (1964-1985). Included among these interviewees are 14 police officers who systematically and routinely tortured or murdered.

List of Tables, Figures, and Photographs

ix

Acknowledgments

xi

Preface

xvii

Introduction

1

(5)

Violent Lives

6

(11)

Reconstructing Atrocity

17

(12)

Locating Torturers and Murderers

29

(16)

Deposing Atrocity and Managing Secrecy

45

(18)

Biography Intersects History

63

(18)

Personalistic Masculinity

81

(20)

Bureaucratizing Masculinity

101

(17)

Blended Masculinity

118

(18)

Shaping Identities and Obedience: A Murderous Dynamic

136

(25)

Secret and Insular Worlds of Serial Torturers and Executioners

161

(31)

Moral Universes of Torturers and Murderers

192

(18)

Hung Out to Dry

210

(22)

Conclusion: The Alchemy of Torture and Execution

232

(37)

References

269

(14)

Index

283

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