Perpetrators: Encountering Humanity's Dark Side

by Antonius C.G.M. Robben

Book Overview

Perpetrators of mass violence are commonly regarded as evil. Their violent nature is believed to make them commit heinous crimes as members of state agencies, insurgencies, terrorist organizations, or racist and supremacist groups. Upon close examination, however, perpetrators are contradictory human beings who often lead unsettlingly ordinary and uneventful lives. Drawing on decades of on-the-ground research with perpetrators of genocide, mass...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1503634272
• ISBN13: 9781503634275
• Release Date: January 2023
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 274 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.4" x 8.4"