Abstract

MONTERO, Augusto. With the hands tied?: Explorations about "motives" and "audiences" for police violence against childrens in the city of Santa Fe. Delito soc. [online]. 2013, vol.22, n.36, pp.76-102. ISSN 0328-0101.

This paper presents an approach to some elements that could contribute to explain the spread and persistence of significant levels of police violence against persons under eighteen years, generally male and poor, in Santa Fe city. In order to this it analizes police officers' discourse, collected through in-depth interviews, and some results of a survey applied to a representative sample of citizens. It tries to observe the conjunction of some processes taking place between the "inside" and the "outside" of police institution that could produce the emergence of some conditions of possibility to such uses of force.

Keywords : Police violence; Vocabularies of motive; Techniques of neutralization; Audiences.

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