... In the early 1980s, an innovation in the organizational technology of crime, born in the dungeons of Brazil’s military dictatorship, spread beyond prison walls and transformed Rio de Janeiro. Comando Vermelho was Brazil’s first facção, known as a comando, in Rio de Janeiro—a kind...

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... into instituting important measures to protect women and arguing that these frames reiterate the state as a purveyor of women's rights, effectively masking the complicity of the state and religious elites in creating the conditions for women's subordination. feminist publics Pakistan honor crimes human...

... Delving into Section 377, particularly the statistics related to it, the chapter provides an up-close view of sexuality’s constitutive effects on the state. Focusing on a state agency, the National Crime Records Bureau, this chapter utilizes fieldwork to reveal sexuality’s impact on its spaces...

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... This chapter analyzes the reasons for and consequences of socialist television’s embrace of the crime appeal or reality crime genre, which was a key forerunner to the reality boom. Known mostly for Crimewatch UK and America’s Most Wanted , the genre in fact had predecessors in Europe since...

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