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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
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| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Martha Knisely Huggins; Mika Haritos-Fatouros; Philip G Zimbardo |
| ISBN: | 0520234464 9780520234468 0520234472 9780520234475 |
| OCLC Number: | 49225729 |
| Description: | xxi, 293 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | 1. Violent Lives -- 2. Reconstructing atrocity -- 3. Locating torturers and murderers -- 4. Deposing atrocity and managing secrecy -- 5. Biography intersects history -- 6. Personalistic masculinity -- 7. Bureaucratizing masculinity -- 8. Blended masculinity -- 9. Shaping identities and obedience : A murderous dynamic -- 10. Secret and insular worlds of serial torturers and executioners -- 11. Moral universes of torturers and murderers -- 12. Hung out to dry -- Conclusion: The alchemy of torture and execution. |
| Responsibility: | Martha K. Huggins, Mika Haritos-Fatouros, and Philip G. Zimbardo. |
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"A groundbreaking work.... Its conclusions allow us to understand how state-sponsored violence is a social illness, and how easily moral boundaries can be destroyed.... Our lesson is to grasp carefully how the technique of transforming individuals into evildoers is a highly rational exercise of constructed hatred, the isolation of individuals, and the blurring of the border between duty and cruelty."-Maria Pia Lara, editor of Rethinking Evil: Contemporary Perspectives "It's rare enough that people study torturers. It's very dangerous fieldwork, demoralizing material to ponder over, and intellectually hazardous to put it together coherently. These authors do better than this: they come back with a book well worth thinking about. Thinking about torture these days is something we do less and less; one can only hope this book will be an antidote to so much thoughtlessness."-Darius Rejali, author of Torture and Modernity: Self, Society and State in Modern Iran Read more...
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- Police brutality -- Brazil.
- Political atrocities -- Brazil.
- Torture -- Brazil.
- Brutalités policières -- Brésil.
- Atrocités politiques -- Brésil.
- Torture -- Brésil.
- Geweld.
- Martelen.
- Politie.
- Psychologische aspecten.
- Violência.
- Trabalhadores.
- Tortura.
- Política -- Brasil.
- Violence politique -- Brésil -- 1945-1990.
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- Brutalität.
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