Posted on Feb 7, 2003

Martha Huggins, Roger
Thayer Stone Professor of Sociology, was featured in “Nota Bene” in the Jan. 10
issue of The Chronicle of Higher
Education. The article describes Violence
Workers: Police Torturers and Murderers Reconstruct Brazilian Atrocities (University
of California Press), a book she
co-authored with Mika Haritos-Fatouros of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
in Greece, and
Philip Zimbardo of Stanford University
and past president of the American Psychological Association. The authors
interviewed 23 policemen who were active during Brazil's
military dictatorship (1964 to 1985) to ask how relatively ordinary men could become “violence
workers.”