From bureaucratic consolidation to structural devolution: Police death squads in Brazil

Policing and Society

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 207-234

  Huggins, Martha K ^a  

^a UNION COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Brazil; Death squads; Debureaucratizing; Devolution; Police; Social control; Vigilantism; Violence

Indexed keywords

EID: 84937268155     PISSN: 10439463     EISSN: 14772728     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10439463.1997.9964775     Document Type: Article

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