Killing and Letting Die: Depicting the Brazilian Conundrum Between Police Killings and Private Lethal Practices

Santo, Luiz Phelipe Dal

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The Law as a Necropolitical Tool: A Genealogy of Police Violence in Brazil

Spesny

2024

Crit Crim

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This article explores the necropolitical foundations of police violence in Brazil via a genealogical approach of analysis of criminal codes, creation decrees, and other legal documents and insights from ethnographic research. In this paper I argue that antiblackness determines the role of the police in contemporary Brazil and has inscribed its place in law. Historically, the police had the legal duty to repress and punish enslaved people; but their role in imparting immediate justice persisted with expanded powers during the dictatorship and democracy’s social demands over the war on drugs. Through all these political and ideological transitions, the police have been resilient to change precisely because of their unique necropolitical power.

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The Law as a Necropolitical Tool: A Genealogy of Police Violence in Brazil

Spesny

2024

Crit Crim

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Policing Sport Mega-Events

Pauschinger

2024

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Security has become one of the most important aspects of sport mega-event organization. This book explores how Rio de Janeiro was imagined and transformed into a security fortress when the 2014 FIFA Men’s World Cup and the 2016 Olympics came to the city and how the fortress was nonetheless permeable and porous. Dennis Pauschinger experienced exceptional backstage access at a high level in the Brazilian mega-event security architecture, as well as at street level with the local public security sphere. His ethnographic account takes us from the hidden world of surveillance and control centres, to the security perimeters around stadiums, and to the mundane routine of police officers during day and night shifts at local police stations or at the Special Forces’ headquarters. This book shows how police officers’ emotions and Special Forces’ war narratives impact the static and technology-based security models at mega-events and how traditional patterns of police work, along lines of class and racial inequalities, still prevail and shape the city’s public security. The book argues against the common narrative of the positive impacts of mega-event security legacies upon host cities by advancing towards a general understanding of how security governance is carried out in places where the use of digital security technologies coexists with overly lethal and repressive forms of policing.

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Pauschinger

2024

Policing Sport Mega-Events

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Killing and Letting Die: Depicting the Brazilian Conundrum Between Police Killings and Private Lethal Practices

Cited by 17 publications

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The Law as a Necropolitical Tool: A Genealogy of Police Violence in Brazil

The Law as a Necropolitical Tool: A Genealogy of Police Violence in Brazil

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