| The killing consensus: police, organized crime, and the regulation of life and death in urban Brazil GD Willis Univ of California Press, 2015 | 445 | 2015 |
| Legitimacy in criminal governance: Managing a drug empire from behind bars B Lessing, G Denyer Willis American Political Science Review 113 (2), 584-606, 2019 | 195 | 2019 |
| Deadly symbiosis? The PCC, the state, and the institutionalization of violence in São Paulo, Brazil GD Willis Youth violence in Latin America: Gangs and juvenile justice in perspective …, 2009 | 72* | 2009 |
| Process and pattern in institutional reforms: A case study of the police pacifying units (UPPs) in Brazil GD Willis, MM Prado World development 64, 232-242, 2014 | 62 | 2014 |
| Antagonistic authorities and the civil police in São Paulo, Brazil GD Willis Latin American Research Review 49 (1), 3-22, 2014 | 43 | 2014 |
| Before the body count: Homicide statistics and everyday security in Latin America GD Willis Journal of Latin American Studies 49 (1), 29-54, 2017 | 34 | 2017 |
| The potter's field GD Willis Comparative Studies in Society and History 60 (3), 539-568, 2018 | 16 | 2018 |
| The Exceptional Prison S Bueno, GD Willis Public Culture 31 (3), 645-663, 2019 | 14 | 2019 |
| City of clones: Facsimiles and governance in São Paulo, Brazil GD Willis Current Sociology 65 (2), 235-247, 2017 | 12 | 2017 |
| Anti-crime social movements in Latin America DE Davis, G Denyer Willis The Blackwell Encyclopedia of social and political movements, 731-733, 2011 | 9* | 2011 |
| Mundane disappearance: The politics of letting disappear in Brazil GD Willis Economy and Society 50 (2), 297-321, 2021 | 7 | 2021 |
| Violence, bureaucracy and intreccio in Brazil G Denyer Willis Global Crime 19 (3-4), 296-314, 2018 | 6 | 2018 |
| The gun library G Denyer Willis Boston Review, 2014 | 4 | 2014 |
| Keep the Bones Alive: Missing People and the Search for Life in Brazil G Denyer Willis Univ of California Press, 2022 | 3* | 2022 |
| Police,‘Police’and the Urban GD Willis The SAGE Handbook of Global Policing, 479, 2016 | 3 | 2016 |
| Urban Resilience in Situations of Chronic Violence: A Case Study of Sdo Paulo, Brazil G Denyer-Willis, J Tierney MIT Centre for International Studies, 2012 | 3 | 2012 |
| ‘Trust and safety’: exchange, protection and the digital market–fortress in platform capitalism G Denyer Willis Socio-Economic Review 21 (4), 1877-1895, 2023 | 2 | 2023 |
| Special issue introduction: burial and the politics of dead bodies in times of COVID-19: Exception and rupture? GD Willis, F Stepputat, G Clavandier Human Remains and Violence: An Interdisciplinary Journal 7 (2), 4-18, 2021 | 2 | 2021 |
| What's Killing Brazil's Police? GD Willis New York Times 1, 2012 | 2 | 2012 |
| Na visão da periferia, PCC reduziu crimes, diz canadense que estuda violência em São Paulo GD WILLIS UOL: São Paulo, 2012 | 2 | 2012 |
Benjamin LessingAssociate Professor of Political Science, University of ChicagoVerified email at uchicago.edu
