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The Perverse Justice of São Paulo's Slums

By Bill Hinchberger

A review of "The Killing Consensus" by Graham Denyer Willis

Paperback, 192 pages

Graham Denyer Willis doesn’t go as far as calling Brazil a failed state in his book The Killing Consensus, but anyone looking to support such a claim would find plenty of evidence in this examination of a São Paulo crime syndicate and the underpaid and often corrupt homicide investigation unit tasked with confronting it. As its title implies, the book takes a hard look at who lives and who dies in a system of justice that the author suggests is deeply flawed.

A University of Cambridge lecturer and Ph.D. in urban and regional studies from...

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