Table of Contents

List of Maps, Illustrations, and Tables

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

Introduction: Anthropology with an Accent

PART ONE: The Talk of Crime

1. Talking of Crime and Ordering the World

Crime as a Disorganizing Experience and an Organizing Symbol

Violence and Signification

From Progress to Economic Crisis, from Authoritarianism to Democracy

2. Crisis, Criminals, and the Spread of Evil

Limits to Modernization

Going Down Socially and Despising the Poor

The Experiences of Violence

Dilemmas of Classification and Discrimination

Evil and Authority

PART TWO: Violent Crime and the Failure of the Rule of Law

3. The Increase in Violent Crime

Tailoring the Statistics

Crime Trends, 1973-1996

Looking for Explanations

4. The Police: A Long History of Abuses

A Critique of the Incomplete Modernity Model

Organization of the Police Forces

A Tradition of Transgressions

5. Police Violence under Democracy

Escalating Police Violence

Promoting a Tough Police

The Massacre at the Casa de Deten??o

The Police from the Citizens' Point of View

Security as a Private Matter

The Cycle of Violence

PART THREE: Urban Segregation, Fortified Enclaves, and Public Space

6. S?o Paulo: Three Patterns of Spatial Segregation

The Concentrated City of Early Industrialization

Center-Periphery: The Dispersed City

Proximity and Walls in the 198s and 199s

7. Fortified Enclaves: Building Up Walls and Creating a New Private Order

Private Worlds for the Elite

From Corti?os to Luxury Enclaves

A Total Way ofLife: Advertising Residential Enclaves for the Rich

Keeping Order inside the Walls

Resisting the Enclaves

An Aesthetic of Security

8. The Implosion of Modern Public Life

The Modern Ideal of Public Space and City Life

Garden City and Modernism: The Lineage of the Fortified Enclave

Street Life: Incivility and Aggression

Experiencing the Public

The Neo-international Style: S?o Paulo and Los Angeles

Contradictory Public Space

PART FOUR: Violence, Civil Rights, and the Body

9. Violence, the Unbounded Body, and the Disregard for Rights in Brazilian Democracy

Human Rights as Privileges for Bandits

Debating Capital Punishment

Punishment as Private and Painful Vengeance

Body and Rights

Appendix

Notes

References

Index