Violent Accounts: Understanding the Psychology of Perpetrators Through South Africaas Truth and Reconciliation Commission

by Robert N. Kraft

Book Overview

Violent Accounts presents a compelling study of how ordinary people commit extraordinary acts of violence and how perpetrators and victims manage in the aftermath. Grounded in extensive, qualitative analysis of perpetrator testimony, the volume reveals the individual experiences of perpetrators as well as general patterns of influence that lead to collective violence.

Drawing on public testimony from the amnesty hearings of the South African...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1479821608
• ISBN13: 9781479821600
• Release Date: March 2014
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 212 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.4"