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| Document Type: | Book |
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| All Authors / Contributors: |
Martha Knisely Huggins |
| ISBN: | 0275934764 9780275934767 |
| OCLC Number: | 22984858 |
| Description: | xii, 266 p. ; 25 cm. |
| Contents: | Lynchings-life by a thread: street justice in Brazil, 1979-1988 / José de Souza Martins -- Popular responses and urban violence: lynchings in Brazil / Maria-Victoria Benevides and Rosa-Maria Fischer Ferreira -- Police, people, and preemption in Argentina / Laura Kalmanowiecki -- Authoritarian society: breeding ground for 'Justiceiros' / Heloísa Rodrigues Fernandes -- Guatemala: the recourse of fear / Carlos Figueroa Ibarra -- All the minister's men: paramilitary activity in Peru / Elena S. Manitzas -- Institutional crisis, parainstitutionality, and regime flexibility in Colombia: the place of narcotraffic and counterinsurgency / Germán Alfonso Palacio Castanêda -- How not to talk about torture: violence, theory, and the problems of explanation / Darius Rejali -- Legislation and national security in Latin America / Alfonso Reyes Echandía "Extraordinary" police operations in Venezuela / Tosca Hernández -- Police and political crisis: the case of the military police / Paulo Sérgio Pinheiro -- Police deadly force as social control: Jamaica, Brazil, and Argentina / Paul G. Chevigny -- U.S.-supported state terror: a history of police training in Latin America / Martha K. Higgins. |
| Responsibility: | edited by Martha K. Huggins. |
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