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1. Introduction -- 2. Transitional justice and memory -- 3. Political violence in Cambodia -- 4. Moving forward through justice -- 5. Memory on trial -- 6. Complementary knowledge -- 7. Victims and perpetrators -- 8. Beyond the tribunal -- 9. Remembering the Khmer Rouge tribunal.

Human rights organisations (HROs) are the principal arbiters of the social problems that are documented and decried as human rights issues. They do so, however, within specific contexts, and through lenses that render some social and political problems more visible and amenable to human rights advocacy than others. This article examines the case of a controversial atrocity denial law passed in Cambodia in 2013 to reflect on how rights-based organisations think about and intervene in the social and political worlds that they inhabit. The law was a response to statements from an opposition leader that questioned the authenticity and 'staging' of a key site of atrocities perpetrated under the Khmer Rouge (1975–1979), circumscribing the opposition's ability to tap popular strands of anti-Vietnamese feeling. Rights groups, in theory, were confronted with a classical dilemma within human rights: the curtailment of free expression against the potential harm of hate speech. I situate the responses of HROs in context and explore three questions about the work and worldviews of HROs: the politicisation of human rights techniques and interventions; the (in)visibility of forms of structural violence in relief of abuses by the state; and the solubility of rights-based advocacy within prevailing populisms.

O artigo faz uma revisão crítica do pragmatismo americano que situa no sujeito, primordialmente, a forma social de ser e de agir, colocando em segundo plano as condições sociais de vida. O puritanismo calvinista, o moralismo e a ideologia do Ocidente são analisados, situando a realidade brasileira e o convívio com a violência crescente, focando a questão da construção social do medo e da juventude, sobretudo a dos bairros periféricos, e marcada pela condição de ser afro-descendente, o que implica no racismo estrutural da sociedade brasileira. Retomando Weber, e fazendo um contraponto – e não uma contraposição – com Freud, o autor chega à inevitável conclusão da violência como uma resposta ao "mal-estar da civilização", mas, sobretudo da civilização brasileira, onde, verdadeiramente, Cristo não morreu por todos, nem tampouco o capitalismo é para todos. Palavras-chave: violência, criminalidade, polícia, juventude, exclusão. ViolENCE AND POVERTY: broken windows and civilization uneasiness Gey Espinheira The paper makes a critical revision of the American pragmatism that places the social form of being and acting on first place on the subject and secondly on social life conditions. The Calvinist Puritanism, moralism and the ideology of the West are analyzed, contextualizing the Brazilian reality and the familiarity with the growing violence, focusing on the issue of social construction of fear and on youths, especially the ones from the peripheral districts, who are marked by the condition of being Afrodescents, thus resulting in structural racism of the Brazilian society. Resuming to Weber and making a counterpoint and not a contraposition, the author resorts to Freud to come to the inevitable conclusion of violence as an answer to "civilization uneasiness", above all of the Brazilian civilization, where Christ definitely did not die for all and neither is capitalism for all. Key words: violence, criminality, police, youths, exclusion.VIOLENCE ET PAUVRETE: fenêtres brisées et le mal-être de la civilisation Gey Espinheira Cet article présente une révision critique du pragmatisme américain qui place, avant tout, dans le sujet la forme sociale d'être et d'agir, en reléguant au second plan les conditions sociales de vie. Le puritanisme calviniste, le moralisme et l'idéologie de l'Occident y sont analysés, situant la réalité brésilienne et son rapport avec une violence croissante, en mettant l'accent sur le problème de la construction sociale de la peur et de la jeunesse, surtout dans la périphérie, et marquée par le fait d'être afro descendante, ce qui implique un racisme structurel de la société brésilienne. En reprenant Weber, et en faisant un contrepoint - et non pas une contre position – avec Freud, l'auteur en arrive à l'inévitable conclusion de la violence comme réponse au "mal-être de la civilisation", mais surtout de la civilisation brésilienne où véritablement le Christ n'est pas mort pour tout le monde et bien moins encore en est-il du capitalisme qui n'est pas fait pour tous. Mots Clés: violence, criminalité, police, jeunesse, exclusion. Publicação Online do Caderno CRH: http://www.cadernocrh.ufba.br

With the rise of surveillance technology in the last decade, police departments now have an array of sophisticated tools for tracking, monitoring, even predicting crime patterns. In particular crime mapping, a technique used by the police to monitor crime by the neighborhoods in their geographic regions, has become a regular and relied-upon feature of policing. Many claim that these technological developments played a role in the crime drop of the 1990s, and yet no study of these techniques and their relationship to everyday police work has been made available.Noted scholar Peter K. Manning spent six years observing three American police departments and two British constabularies in order to determine what effects these kinds of analytic tools have had on modern police management and practices. While modern technology allows the police to combat crime in sophisticated, detail-oriented ways, Manning discovers that police strategies and tactics have not been altogether transformed as perhaps would be expected. In The Technology of Policing, Manning untangles the varying kinds of complex crime-control rhetoric that underlie much of today's police department discussion and management, and provides valuable insight into which are the most effective-and which may be harmful—in successfully tracking criminal behavior.The Technology of Policing offers a new understanding of the changing world of police departments and information technology's significant and undeniable influence on crime management

Despite constant calls for reform, policing in the United States and Britain has changed little over the past thirty years. In Policing Contingencies, Peter K. Manning draws on decades of fieldwork to investigate how law enforcement works on the ground and in the symbolic realm, and why most efforts to reform the way police work have failed so far. Manning begins by developing a model of policing as drama-a way of communicating various messages to the public in an effort to enforce moral boundaries. Unexpected outcomes, or contingencies, continually rewrite the plot of this drama, requiring officers to adjust accordingly. New information technologies, media scrutiny and representations, and community policing also play important roles, and Manning studies these influences in detail. He concludes that their impacts have been quite limited, because the basic structure of policing-officer assessments based on encounters during routine patrols-has remained unchanged. For policing to really change, Manning argues, its focus will need to shift to prevention. Written with precision and judiciously argued, Policing Contingencies will be of value to scholars of sociology, criminology, information technology, and cultural theory.

Despite constant calls for reform, policing in the United States and Britain has changed little over the past thirty years. In Policing Contingencies, Peter K. Manning draws on decades of fieldwork to investigate how law enforcement works on the ground and in the symbolic realm, and why most efforts to reform the way police work have failed so far. Manning begins by developing a model of policing as drama--a way of communicating various messages to the public in an effort to enforce moral boundaries. Unexpected outcomes, or contingencies, continually rewrite the plot of this drama, requiring off.