The Routledge international handbook of perpetrator studies / edited by Susanne C. Knittel and Zachary J. Goldberg.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Knittel, Susanne C., editor.

Goldberg, Zachary J., editor.

Series:

Routledge international handbooks.

Routledge international handbooks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Genocide.

Political violence.

Critical criminology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (415 pages).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2020.

Summary:

"The Routledge International Handbook of Perpetrator Studies provides the first comprehensive overview of this emerging interdisciplinary field in the humanities and social sciences. Featuring contributions by scholars from a wide variety of fields and disciplines, the Handbook charts the growth and development, foundations, key debates, core concerns, and frontiers of Perpetrator Studies. Focusing on genocide, terrorism, and other forms of political mass violence, this Handbook addresses questions of guilt and responsibility, definition, terminology, typology, motivations, group dynamics, memory, trauma, representation, and pedagogy. Offering a thematic and conceptual approach that facilitates a comparative analysis across historical, geographic, and disciplinary lines, the Handbook allows different disciplinary perspectives to confront one another. In so doing, this foundational volume presents contemporary perspectives on longstanding debates whilst also providing new contributions to the field. Written with an interdisciplinary readership in mind, the chapters provide an overview of existing work on a specific topic or issue, delineate current developments within the respective discipline or field, and make suggestions for further research. As such, the book will appeal to scholars across a range of disciplines, including history, sociology, anthropology, criminology, law, philosophy, memory studies, psychology, political science, literary studies, film studies, cultural studies, art history, and education"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

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

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

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

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

Bibliography.

6. What's Moral Character Got to Do with It?: Perpetrators and the Nature of Moral Evil

Conclusion

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

8. Linking Perpetrator Characteristics to Jihadist Modus Operandi: An Exploratory Study

Motivation

Modus Operandi

Towards Terrorist Perpetrator Typologies Based on Operational Characteristics

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

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"

10. When Perpetrators Become Defendants and then Convicts

From Nuremberg to Everywhere

The Hydraulics of the Criminal Trial

From Defendant to Convict

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

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?

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

14. Posthumanism and Perpetrators

The Importance of the Nonhuman

Perpetrators and Posthumanism in Action

The Importance of Considering Posthumanism

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

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

17. Understanding Perpetrators' Use of Music

Music and Atrocities: A Brief Introduction

Cognitive Dissonances

Novozlatopol

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

References.

19. Climate Change Perpetrators: Ecocriticism, Implicated Subjects, and Anthropocene Fiction

2.2 Aftermaths, Responsibility, Trauma, and Memory

20. Moral Responsibility and Evil

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

21. Restorative Justice and the Challenge of Perpetrator Accountability

Transitional justice and the challenge of perpetrator accountability

Restorative Justice for Perpetrators

22. The Contours and Controversies of Perpetrator Trauma

What Is Perpetrator Trauma?

Controversies of Perpetrator Trauma

Towards Greater Understanding of Perpetrator Trauma

23. The Intergenerational Effects of Mass Trauma in Sculpting New Perpetrators

Intergenerational Trauma in South Africa

Childhood Neurobiology and the Victim-Perpetrator Cycle

Neurobiological Adaptations to Threat

Attachment Quality

A Culture of Violence

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

2.3 Perpetrators and Representation

25. Perpetrators and Perpetration in Literature

Accurate Portrayal

A Purely Helpful Intention

"Good People"

Full Freedom

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

27. Representing Infamous Others: Perpetrator Imagery in Visual Art

Why and How Do Artists Depict Perpetrators?

Conclusion-The Lingering Presence of Perpetrator Images in the Public Imagination

28. Cultural Codes: Holocaust Resonances in Representations of Genocide Perpetrators

29. Playing Perpetrators: Interrogating Evil in Videogames about Violent Conflicts

Videogames and Play: Some Basic Considerations

Perpetrators in Videogames

Playing with, against, and as the Perpetrator

Conclusion: Perpetrators, Games, and Learning

2.4 Teaching about Perpetrators

30. Playing Devil's Advocate: Classroom Encounters with Holocaust Perpetrators

Should We Tell Children about Perpetrators?

Further Information:

31. Teaching the Perpetrator's Perspective in Holocaust Literature

32. Teaching for/about Empathy in Peace Education

The Notion of Empathy

Cultivating Reconciliatory Empathy in Peace Education

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

Films

34. The Ethics of Discomfort: Critical Perpetrator Studies and/as Education after Auschwitz

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-351-59342-0

1-351-59341-2

1-315-10288-9

9781315102887

OCLC:

1110673198