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"Chacina do Paar": as dimensões do poder no universo policial
(Universidade Federal do Pará, 2007) ROCHA, Marilene Sousa Pantoja da; ANTONAZ, Diana; http://lattes.cnpq.br/7547028254641362
In this dissertation a concrete event occurred in 1995 at a Police Office is analyzed. A young man accused of stealing a bycicle was humiliated and tortured by police officials. In retaliation five men entered the PAAR Police Station and killed the chief of Police and two officials. In continuation around two hundred police officials started a raid against these men, capturing three of them, who were executed without delay. This event that came to be known as “ PAAR slaughter” is examplary so as it allows acutely depicting power from police officials representations about their experience in every day life and borderline relations between them and criminals. Power relations uveiled in police everyday life are herein discussed. In the first chapter the aforementioned event is described; in chapter 2 police representations and categories are analyzed as means of structuring a thought about the world; in chapter 3; I show how police officials and criminals establish personal relations and in chapter 4 I discuss how the police officials impose punishments according to their own “sense of justice”.