Perpetrator Studies is an interdisciplinary subfield of genocide studies that systematically investigates the identities, motivations, actions, and enabling contexts of individuals and groups who commit genocide and related forms of mass political violence.
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States of denial: knowing about atrocities and suffering
Choice Reviews Online · 2001 · 2.4K citations
The Order of Genocide: Race, Power, and War in Rwanda
Nicolas van de Walle, Scott Straus · Foreign Affairs · 2006 · 623 citations
The Social Life of Social Death: On Afro-Pessimism and Black Optimism
Jared Yates Sexton · InTensions · 2011 · 560 citations · Full text
Evil: inside human violence and cruelty
Choice Reviews Online · 1997 · 427 citations
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University of British Columbia
Vancouver, Canada
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4 publications
262 citations
University of Toronto
Toronto, Canada
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4 publications
373 citations
University of Cape Town
Rondebosch, South Africa
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3 publications
77 citations
Yale University
New Haven, United States
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3 publications
136 citations
University of Oregon
Eugene, United States
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3 publications
158 citations
University of California, Santa Cruz
Santa Cruz, United States
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4 publications
270 citations
KU Leuven
Leuven, Belgium
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3 publications
324 citations
Universitat Politècnica de València
Valencia, Spain
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3 publications
48 citations
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- Choice Reviews Online
CRO · 24 publications · 4.4K citations
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- Holocaust and Genocide Studies
12 publications · 554 citations
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- Journal of Genocide Research
10 publications · 583 citations
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- Journal of Perpetrator Research
JPR · 6 publications · 203 citations
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- Genocide Studies and Prevention
GSP · 5 publications · 105 citations
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