Violence Workers: Police Torturers and Murderers Reconstruct Brazilian Atrocities
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| Rating | : | 4.15 (528 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0520234472 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 280 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-05-21 |
| Language | : | English |
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P. Willson said Garbage in, Garbage out. The final chapter is all you need to read -- and it will tell you that they learned nothing that hasn't been said more succinctly and compellingly by any number of other authors. In fact, just get Suedfeld's 'Psychology and Torture,' a somewhat flawed, but far more thorough and well-founded book.This is a tedious and repetitive -- and very superficial -- book 'researching' "Garbage in, Garbage out" according to P. Willson. The final chapter is all you need to read -- and it will tell you that they learned nothing that hasn't been said more succinctly and compellingly by any number of other authors. In fact, just get Suedfeld's 'Psychology and Torture,' a somewhat flawed, but far more thorough and well-founded book.This is a tedious and repetitive -- and very superficial -- book 'researching' 2Garbage in, Garbage out The final chapter is all you need to read -- and it will tell you that they learned nothing that hasn't been said more succinctly and compellingly by any number of other authors. In fact, just get Suedfeld's 'Psychology and Torture,' a somewhat flawed, but far more thorough and well-founded book.This is a tedious and repetitive -- and very superficial -- book 'researching' 23 Brazilians involved with death squads or torture squads. Ther. Brazilians involved with death squads or torture squads. Ther. Garbage in, Garbage out The final chapter is all you need to read -- and it will tell you that they learned nothing that hasn't been said more succinctly and compellingly by any number of other authors. In fact, just get Suedfeld's 'Psychology and Torture,' a somewhat flawed, but far more thorough and well-founded book.This is a tedious and repetitive -- and very superficial -- book 'researching' 23 Brazilians involved with death squads or torture squads. Ther. Brazilians involved with death squads or torture squads. Ther. Michael H. Stone, MD said Police Torturers Examined. An outstanding book, that took courage to put together-- telling with credibility and compassion about the torture to which the Brazilian police & military subjected citizens whom they saw as on the "wrong" side politically. The authors bring to light an evil we thought went out of fashion with the Inquisition -- but here it is again in the "Police Torturers Examined" according to Michael H. Stone, MD. An outstanding book, that took courage to put together-- telling with credibility and compassion about the torture to which the Brazilian police & military subjected citizens whom they saw as on the "wrong" side politically. The authors bring to light an evil we thought went out of fashion with the Inquisition -- but here it is again in the 20th century. They make it clear that the propensity to torture is part of the human condition, t. 0th century. They make it clear that the propensity to torture is part of the human condition, t
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?. 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
It's very dangerous fieldwork, demoralizing material to ponder over, and intellectually hazardous to put it together coherently. Its conclusions allow us to understand how state-sponsored violence is a social illness, and how easily moral boundaries can be destroyed. These authors do better than this: they come back with a book well worth thinking about. 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. "A groundbreaking work. 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