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MARTHA KNISELY HUGGINS, PH.D.
PUBLICATIONS
Books:

VIOLENCE WORKERS:
Police Torturers and Murderers Reconstruct Brazilian Atrocities (The University of California Press) (with Mika Haritos-Fatouros and Philip Zimbardo)
AWARDS:
WINNER 2003 of the New England Council of Latin American Studies (NECLAS) prize for the Best Book published on Latin American Studies in 2002
Distinguished book award for 2002 by the Division of International Criminology of the American Society of Criminology.
FINALIST 2003 SSSP C. Wright Mills Prize to recognize a book annually that critically addresses an issue of contemporary public importance and that brings a fresh, imaginative perspective to the topic.
Publication Date: November 2002 Order this title from ucpress.edu Books
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POLITICAL POLICING: The United States and Latin America (Duke University Press, 1998)
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POLÍCIA E POLÍTICA: http://www.cortezeditora.com.br/listaautor.php3
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Vigilantism and the State in Modern Latin America : |
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From Slavery to Vagrancy in Brazil: Order this title from Amazon.com Books |
ARTICLES
"Working Kids on Paulista Avenue," Childhood: An International Journal of Child Research, forthcoming 2004 (with Sandra Rodrigues).
"Women Studying Violent Male Institutions: Cross-Gendered Dynamics in Police Research on Secrecy and Danger," Journal of Theoretical Criminology, August 2003 (with Marie-Louise Glebbeek).
"State Violence in Brazil: The Professional Morality of Torturers," Citizens of Fear: Urban Violence in Latin America, Susana Rotker, Ed. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2002.
"La violencia del estado en Brasil: la moral "professional" de los torturadores." In Ciudadanias del Miedo, Susana Rotker, Ed. Caracas: Nova Sociedad, 2000.
"Urban Violence and Police Privatization in Brazil: Blended Invisibility." Social Justice: A Journal of Crime, Conflict, and World Order, Special Issue on "Social Justice at the Millennium," Robert Weiss, Ed. Fall, 2000.
"Armed and Dangerous: Where the Military and Police Can't Keep Order Private Security Takes Over" Editorial in Connection to the Americas, Resource Center of the Americas, Fall 2000 (with Jessica MacTurk).
"Reconstructing Atrocity: How Torturers, Murderers and Researchers Deconstruct Labels and Manage Secrecy." Human Rights Review, Vol. 1 #4, July/Sept., 2000.
"Modernity and Devolution: The Making of Police Death Squads in Modern Brazil." In Death Squads in Global Perspective: Murder With Deniability, Arthur D. Brenner and Bruce B. Campbell, Eds. New York: St. Martin's Press (2000).
"Legacies of Authoritarianism: Brazilian Torturers and Murders Reformulation of Memory." In Latin American Perspectives, special issue on "Coercion, Violence, and Rights," May 2000.
"U.S. Training of Foreign Police: Institutionalizing Violence." In Violence in America: An Encyclopedia. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons (1999).
"Civic Invisibility, Marginality, Moral Exclusion: The Murders of Street Youth in Brazil." (With Myriam Mesquita P. De Castro). In Children on the Streets in the Americas: Globalization, Homelessness, and Education in the United States, Brazil and Cuba, R. Michelson (Ed.) London: Routledge (1999).
"U.S. Foreign Police Training in Latin America: An International Protection Racket." In Contemporary Justice Review, 1:4, 1998.
"Police Violence Targets the Poor." In Connection to the Americas, Resource Center of the Americas, V.15:7, September, 1998.
"Bureaucratizing Masculinities Among Brazilian Torturers and Murderers." In Masculinities and Violence, Lee H. Bowker, Ed., Beverley Hills, CA: Sage Publications, 1998. (with Mika Haritos-Fatouros).
"From Bureaucratic Consolidation to Structural Devolution: Police Death Squads in Brazil." Policing and Society, 7(4), 1997.
"Conciencia Torturada: ¿Secretos y Moralidad en La Violencia Policial," in La Policia en America Latina: Historia, Organizacion y Competencias y Abuso de Poder, Peter Waldmann, Ed. Columbia: Biblioteca Diké, 1996. (with Mika Haritos-Fatouros).
"Scapegoating Outsiders: The Murders of Street Youth in Modern Brazil," in Policing and Society. London: Harwood Academic Publishers, 4(4), 1995 (with Myriam Mesquita P. de Castro).
"Exclusion, Civil Invisibility and Impunity as Explanations for Youth Murders in Brazil," Childhood: A Global Journal of Child Research, 3(1), February, 1996 (with Myriam Mesquita P. de Castro).
"Violência Institucionalizada e Democracia: Ligações Perigosas," in Vitimologia: Enfoque Interdisciplinar, Ester Kosovski, Ed. Rio de Janeiro: Univesidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro and Sociedade Brasileira de Vitimologia, 1994.
"O vigilantismo e o estado: como funcionam juntos," Revista O Alferes, 32, Abril-Junho, 1992.
"A policia, o direito e a transição para a democracia em America Latina Revista O Alferes, 33, Julho-Setembro, 1992.
"La policia, el derecho y la transicion democratica en America Latina, "Pensamiento Centro Americano, 213, Winter, 1992.
"Vigilantism and the State: A Look South and North." In Vigilantism and the State in Modern Latin America, Martha K. Huggins, Ed. New York: Praeger, 1991.
"U.S.-Supported State Terror: A History of U.S. Police Training in Latin America," Crime and Social Justice, special two-volume issue on terrorism, nos. 27-28, 1987: 149-171. Also published in Vigilantism and the State in Latin America, Martha K. Huggins, Ed. New York: Praeger, 1991.
"Theoretical Approaches to Crime and Development," Comparative Social Research, 8, 1985.
"Social Control for Labor in Nineteenth-Century Pernambuco, Brazil," Contemporary Crises: Crime, Law, and Social Policy, 6, 1982. Also published in Social History of Crime, Policing, and Punishment, Robert P. Weiss, Ed. London: Ashgate, 1999.
Violence in American Society as Reflected in Children's Books from 1850 to 1970," in Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1978 (with Murray A. Straus). Also published in Violence in Canada, Mary Alice Beyer Gammon, Ed. Toronto: Methuen Publishing Co., 1975.
"Guerilla Warfare: A Preliminary Study of Predisposing and Precipitating Factors," Revolutionary Guerilla Warfare, Sam Sarkesian, Ed. Precedent Publishing Co., 1975 (with Scott G. McNall).
Copyright 1998 Union College Department of Sociology
Comments: Lisa Quirk
Revised: December 1, 2000