ABSTRACT
The Routledge International Handbook of Perpetrator Studies traces the growth of 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. With a focus on the perpetrators of mass killings, political violence and genocide, the handbook is concerned with a range of issues relating to the figure of the perpetrator, from questions of definition, typology, and conceptual analysis, to the study of motivations and group dynamics to questions of guilt and responsibility, as well as representation and memory politics. Offering an overview of the field, its essential concepts and approaches, this foundational volume presents contemporary perspectives on longstanding debates and recent contributions to the field that significantly expand the theoretical, temporal, political, and geographical discussion of perpetrators and their representation through literature, film, and art. It points to emerging areas and future trends in the field, thus providing scholars with ideas or encouragement for future research activity. As such, It will appeal to scholars across a range of disciplines, including sociology, anthropology, criminology, philosophy, memory studies, psychology, political science, literary studies, film studies, law, cultural studies and visual art.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part 1|1 pages
Core Concepts and Key Debates
part 1.1|1 pages
Definitions and Terminology
part 1.2|2 pages
Group Dynamics and Moral Psychology
chapter 2|12 pages
The Making and Un-making of Perpetrators
chapter 6|10 pages
What’s Moral Character Got to Do with It?
chapter 8|12 pages
Linking Perpetrator Characteristics to Jihadist Modus Operandi
part 1.3|2 pages
Perpetrators and the Law
chapter 9|11 pages
Nazi Perpetrators and the Law
chapter 11|12 pages
Unsettling Accounts
chapter 12|11 pages
The Coercive Effects of International Justice
part 2|1 pages
Intersections
part 2.1|2 pages
Perpetrators—New Theoretical Approaches
chapter 19|13 pages
Climate Change Perpetrators
part 2.2|2 pages
Aftermaths, Responsibility, Trauma, and Memory
chapter 24|12 pages
One Perpetrator at a Time
part 2.3|1 pages
Perpetrators and Representation
part 2.4|2 pages
Teaching About Perpetrators