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Killing Consensus

Police, Organized Crime, and the Regulation of Life and Death in Urban Brazil

Autor: Graham Denyer Willis

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Editura: University of California Press

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We hold many assumptions about police work that it is the responsibility of the state, or that polic...

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Autor

Graham Denyer Willis

Limbă

engleză

Legare

Carte - Copertă tare

Publicat

2015

Pagini

216

EAN

9780520285705

ISBN

0520285700

Enbook ID

09084069

Editura

University of California Press

Greutate

424

Dimensiuni

237 x 161 x 19

Descriere completă

We hold many assumptions about police work that it is the responsibility of the state, or that police officers are 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 Sao Paulo, Brazil, killing and the arbitration of normal killing in the name of social order are actually conducted by two groups the police and organized crime both operating according to parallel logics of murder. Based on three years of ethnographic fieldwork, Willis' book traces how homicide detectives categorize two types of killing: the first resulting from resistance" to police arrest (which is often broadly defined) and the second at the hands of a crime "family' known as the Primeiro Comando da Capital (PCC). Death at the hands of police happens regularly, while the PCC's centralized control and strict moral code among criminals has also routinized killing, ironically making the city feel safer for most residents. In a fractured urban security environment, where killing mirrors patterns of inequitable urbanization and historical exclusion along class, gender, and racial lines, Denyer Willis' research finds that the city's cyclical periods of peace and violence can best be understood through an unspoken but mutually observed consensus on the right to kill. This consensus hinges on common notions and street-level practices of who can die, where, how, and by whom, revealing an empirically distinct configuration of authority that Denyer Willis calls sovereignty by consensus.