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Book Synopsis
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.

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"Weaving in detailed observations from years of fieldwork, Willis's ethnography is both a cautionary tale about the cyclical nature of unregulated violence and a critique of the system that facilitates such an arrangement." Survival: Global Politics and Strategy "An engaging and theoretically thorough interpretation of the public security challenge in urban Brazil." Luso-Brazilian Review

Table of Contents
List of Illustrations Foreword Preface Acknowledgments PART ONE. SURVIVING Introduction. Sovereignty by Consensus 1. Surviving Sao Paulo 2. Regulations of Killing PART TWO. KILLING 3. Homicide 4. Resistencias 5. The Killing Consensus 6. A Consensus Killed PART THREE. DEBATE 7. The Powerful? 8. Toward an Ideal Subordination? Notes Bibliography Index

The Killing Consensus

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      Publisher University of California Press
      Published 21 March 2015
      ISBN-13 9780520285712
      978-0520285712
      ISBN-10 0520285719
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      Crime and criminology

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      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.

      Trade Review
      "Weaving in detailed observations from years of fieldwork, Willis's ethnography is both a cautionary tale about the cyclical nature of unregulated violence and a critique of the system that facilitates such an arrangement." Survival: Global Politics and Strategy "An engaging and theoretically thorough interpretation of the public security challenge in urban Brazil." Luso-Brazilian Review

      Table of Contents
      List of Illustrations Foreword Preface Acknowledgments PART ONE. SURVIVING Introduction. Sovereignty by Consensus 1. Surviving Sao Paulo 2. Regulations of Killing PART TWO. KILLING 3. Homicide 4. Resistencias 5. The Killing Consensus 6. A Consensus Killed PART THREE. DEBATE 7. The Powerful? 8. Toward an Ideal Subordination? Notes Bibliography Index

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