1st Edition

Perpetrating Genocide A Criminological Account

By Kjell Anderson Copyright 2018
292 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

290 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

290 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Focusing on the relationship between the micro level of perpetrator motivation and the macro level normative discourse, this book offers an in-depth explanation for the perpetration of genocide. It is the first comparative criminological treatment of genocide drawn from original field research, based substantially on the author’s interviews with perpetrators and victims of genocide and mass... Read more

Prologue: Inside Nyamata Church

1. Introduction: An Unimaginable and Uncharacteristic Act

2. The Emergence of the Genocidal Context

3. The Genocidal Context

4. Propaganda: Communicating the Moral Context

5. Who Kills?

6. Deciding to Kill

7. Killing

8. Rationalizing Killing

9. Coping with Killing

10. After Genocide I: Memory, Trauma, & Rehabilitation

11. After Genocide II: Justice

12. Conclusion: Killing Without Consequence?

Biography

Kjell Anderson is an interdisciplinary scholar specializing in the study of mass violence, and is currently an Affiliated Research Fellow of the Centre for International Criminal Justice at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.