The killing consensus : police, organized crime, and the regulation of life and death in urban Brazil /

"We hold many assumptions about police work -- that it is the responsibility of the state, or that police officers be given the right to kill in the name of public safety or self-defense. But in The Killing Consensus, Graham Denyer Willis shows how in São Paulo, Brazil, killing and the arbitrat...

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Main Author: Denyer Willis, Graham, 1979- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2015]
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Online Access: Full text (Wentworth users only)
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central