The Routledge International Handbook of Perpetrator Studies.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Contributors -- Foreword: Critical Perpetrator Studies -- Introduction -- PART 1: Core Concepts and Key Debates -- 1.1 Definitions and Terminology -- 1. From Perpetrators to Perpetration: Definitions, Typologies, and Processes -- Introduction -- Defining the "Perpetrator" -- Who Are the Perpetrators? -- From Perpetrators to Perpetration -- Conclusion: The Extraordinary Perpetrator Revisited -- Notes -- References -- 1.2 Group Dynamics and Moral Psychology -- 2. The Making and Un-making of Perpetrators: Patterns of Involvement in Nazi Persecution -- Perpetration and Collective Violence -- Physical Violence -- Systemic Violence: The Administration of Evil -- Complicity: Social and Symbolic Violence -- The Un-making of Perpetrators: Justice, Guilt, and Reintegration -- States of Violence -- Note -- Bibliography -- 3. Ordinary Organizations: A Systems Theory Approach to Perpetrator Studies -- Beyond the View of Organizations as Machines -- Neither Structuralism nor Voluntarism -- Generalization of Motives -- The Challenges of a Systems Approach -- Notes -- References -- 4. Stanley Milgram's Obedience Experiments -- Milgram's Obedience Experiments -- Reactions to the Obedience Experiments -- A New Wave -- A Renewed Focus on Ethical Issues -- Standardization, Rhetoric, and Interaction -- Conclusion: Questioning Obedience -- Notes -- References -- 5. The Authoritarian Personality: Then and Now -- The Authoritarian Personality-Historical Context -- The Authoritarian Personality-Methodology and Findings -- The Authoritarian Personality-The F-Scale -- The Authoritarian Personality-Impact -- The Authoritarian Personality-Relevance for Perpetrator Studies and Today -- Notes -- Bibliography.

6. What's Moral Character Got to Do with It?: Perpetrators and the Nature of Moral Evil -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 7. The Making of a Torturer -- Democratic Torture and Non-Democratic Torture -- The Ticking Bomb Scenario and Individualization of Torture -- The Democratic State as Perpetrator -- Comparing Democratic and Non-Democratic Torture -- The Reality of a Torture Culture -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 8. Linking Perpetrator Characteristics to Jihadist Modus Operandi: An Exploratory Study -- Introduction -- Motivation -- Modus Operandi -- Towards Terrorist Perpetrator Typologies Based on Operational Characteristics -- Conclusion -- References -- 1.3 Perpetrators and the Law -- 9. Nazi Perpetrators and the Law: Postwar Trials, Courtroom Testimony, and Debates about the Motives of Nazi War Criminals -- Introduction -- Listening to Perpetrators: Trial Testimony, the "Banality of Evil," and the Genesis of Interpretations of "Perpetrator Motive" -- Perpetrator Motive: Ordinary Men or Ordinary Germans? -- Perpetrator Trials, Testimony, and the "Making of a Murderer" -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 10. When Perpetrators Become Defendants and then Convicts -- From Nuremberg to Everywhere -- The Hydraulics of the Criminal Trial -- From Defendant to Convict -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 11. Unsettling Accounts: Perpetrators' Confessions in the Aftermath of State Violence and Armed Conflict -- Perpetrators' Confessions and the Truth and Reconciliation Assumption -- Elements of Confessional Performances -- Unsettling Accounts -- Notes -- References -- 12. The Coercive Effects of International Justice: How Perpetrators Respond to Threats of Prosecution -- The Nature of Wartime Criminal Prosecutions -- Expectations for Effective Prosecutorial Coercion.

What Do We Know about Coercive Effects of International Prosecution? -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- PART 2: Intersections -- 2.1 Perpetrators-New Theoretical Approaches -- 13. Gendering the Perpetrator: Gendering Perpetrator Studies -- Male Perpetrators of Violence against Women -- Early Feminist Approaches to Terrorism and the Historikerinnenstreit: Women as Perpetrators in the 1970s and 1980s -- The Long 1990s: Gender Trouble -- Perpetrator Trouble -- Perpetrator Studies in the Twenty-first Century -- Towards a Critical Feminist Perpetrator Studies: Some Ways Forward -- Notes -- References -- 14. Posthumanism and Perpetrators -- The Importance of the Nonhuman -- Perpetrators and Posthumanism in Action -- The Importance of Considering Posthumanism -- Notes -- References -- 15. Notes on the Subaltern: Or, How Postcolonial Critique Meets the Perpetrator -- Re-encountering Perpetrator Studies -- Encountering the Subaltern -- The Methodology of Postcolonial Critique -- Agential Separability: How Postcolonial Studies Meets the Perpetrator -- Notes -- References -- 16. Perpetrators, Animals, and Animality -- Introduction: Border Control -- Animals as Victims, Victims as Animals -- What Do Genocides Kill? -- Animals as Perpetrators -- Conclusion: The Dog Border Revisited -- Notes -- References -- 17. Understanding Perpetrators' Use of Music -- Music and Atrocities: A Brief Introduction -- Cognitive Dissonances -- Novozlatopol -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 18. Information Technologies and Constructions of Perpetrator Identities -- Information, Security, and Values -- Virtual Identities: Making Information Useful -- Values in Informational Analytics -- Virtual Identities Shaping Responses to People -- Getting It Wrong -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References.

19. Climate Change Perpetrators: Ecocriticism, Implicated Subjects, and Anthropocene Fiction -- References -- 2.2 Aftermaths, Responsibility, Trauma, and Memory -- 20. Moral Responsibility and Evil -- Introduction -- Evil Actions and Evil Persons -- Three Types of Perpetrators of Evil -- Moral Responsibility -- Perpetrators of Evil and Moral Responsibility -- Evil and the Limits of Moral Responsibility -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 21. Restorative Justice and the Challenge of Perpetrator Accountability -- Transitional justice and the challenge of perpetrator accountability -- Restorative Justice for Perpetrators -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 22. The Contours and Controversies of Perpetrator Trauma -- Introduction -- What Is Perpetrator Trauma? -- Controversies of Perpetrator Trauma -- Towards Greater Understanding of Perpetrator Trauma -- Notes -- References -- 23. The Intergenerational Effects of Mass Trauma in Sculpting New Perpetrators -- Introduction -- Intergenerational Trauma in South Africa -- Childhood Neurobiology and the Victim-Perpetrator Cycle -- Neurobiological Adaptations to Threat -- Attachment Quality -- A Culture of Violence -- Conclusion -- References -- 24. One Perpetrator at a Time: The Contribution of Public Health Science to Genocide Prevention -- The Health Outcomes of Genocide -- Public Health Science and Violence Prevention -- Addressing the Root Causes of Genocide (ARC-G) -- The Future of Public Health-Based Genocide Prevention Research and Practice -- Perpetrator Research and Implications for Genocide Prevention -- Conclusion -- Note -- References -- 2.3 Perpetrators and Representation -- 25. Perpetrators and Perpetration in Literature -- Accurate Portrayal -- A Purely Helpful Intention -- "Good People" -- Full Freedom -- Note -- References -- 26. Whose Evil Is This? Perpetrators in the Theater.

A Note about How the Theater Works -- Just How Did We Get Here? -- Dealing with Nazis -- What Did and Didn't Come After -- It Will Always Be Complicated -- Notes -- References -- 27. Representing Infamous Others: Perpetrator Imagery in Visual Art -- Introduction -- Why and How Do Artists Depict Perpetrators? -- Conclusion-The Lingering Presence of Perpetrator Images in the Public Imagination -- Notes -- References -- 28. Cultural Codes: Holocaust Resonances in Representations of Genocide Perpetrators -- Notes -- References -- 29. Playing Perpetrators: Interrogating Evil in Videogames about Violent Conflicts -- Introduction -- Videogames and Play: Some Basic Considerations -- Perpetrators in Videogames -- Playing with, against, and as the Perpetrator -- Conclusion: Perpetrators, Games, and Learning -- Notes -- References -- 2.4 Teaching about Perpetrators -- 30. Playing Devil's Advocate: Classroom Encounters with Holocaust Perpetrators -- Should We Tell Children about Perpetrators? -- Should We Tell Children about Perpetrators? -- Should We Tell Children about Perpetrators? -- Further Information: -- References -- 31. Teaching the Perpetrator's Perspective in Holocaust Literature -- Note -- References -- 32. Teaching for/about Empathy in Peace Education -- The Notion of Empathy -- Cultivating Reconciliatory Empathy in Peace Education -- Conclusion -- References -- 33. Beyond Thinking Like a Lawyer: Providing a Space for Perpetrator Studies within the Legal Classroom -- "Thinking Like a Lawyer": Emotional Detachment -- "Thinking Like a Lawyer": Context Matters -- What the Field of Perpetrator Studies Can Offer -- References -- Films -- 34. The Ethics of Discomfort: Critical Perpetrator Studies and/as Education after Auschwitz -- Notes -- References -- Index.

The Routledge International Handbook of Perpetrator Studies traces the growth an important interdisciplinary field, its foundations, key debates and core concerns, as well as highlighting current and emerging issues and approaches and pointing to new directions for enquiry.

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