Articles

"Moral Universes of Brazilian Tortures" 

Albany Law Review, Volume 2

Forthcoming (Spring), 2004

"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)