Killing Consensus - Willis Graham Denyer
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…
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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 S o 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's 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