Mika Haritos-Fatouros & Philip G. Zimbardo 
Violence Workers [PDF ebook] 
Police Torturers and Murderers Reconstruct Brazilian Atrocities

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?

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations

Explanation of Illustrations

List of Tables and Figures

Acknowledgements


Preface

Introduction


Chapter 1: Violent Lives

Chapter 2: Reconstructing Atrocity

Chapter 3: Locating Torturers and Murderers

Chapter 4: Deposing Atrocity and Managing Secrecy

Chapter 5: Biography Intersects History

Chapter 6: Personalistic Masculinity

Chapter 7: Bureaucratizing Masculinities

Chapter 8: Blended Masculinity

Chapter 9: Shaping Identities and Obedience: A Murderous Dynamic

Chapter 10: Secret and Insular Worlds of Serial Torturers and Executioners

Chapter 11: Moral Universe of Torturers and Murderers

Chapter 12: Hung Out to Dry


Conclusion: The Alchemy of Torture and Execution: Transforming Ordinary Men into Violence Perpetrators

Über den Autor

Martha K. Huggins is Roger Thayer Stone Professor of Sociology at Union College. Her book Political Policing (1998) won two awards. Mika Haritos-Fatouros is Professor of Psychology at the School of Psychology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, and author of the forthcoming title, The Psychological Origins of Institutionalized Torture (2003). Philip G. Zimbardo is Professor of Psychology at Stanford University, author of several books, and 2002 President of the American Psychological Association.