{"title":"Afterword: A Roadmap for the Study of Paramilitaries: Explaining Variations of Violence, Gendered Militias, and Demobilization","authors":"Stacey L. Hunt","doi":"10.21039/JPR.3.2.90","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21039/JPR.3.2.90","url":null,"abstract":"Political scientists have long struggled to identify, quantify, or explain socio-economic and structural violence and to understand its relationship to physical violence. These four articles reflect both the deep and apparently constitutive ties paramilitary forces have to local, national, and international economies, providing a number of provocative hypotheses regarding the potential for demobilization in contexts of particular economic arrangements such as illicit economies or the widespread use of patronage systems to distribute limited welfare state goods.","PeriodicalId":152877,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Perpetrator Research","volume":"92 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-05-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129081576","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Reproduction of Settler Colonialism in Palestine","authors":"Marcelo Svirsky","doi":"10.21039/JPR.4.1.79","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21039/JPR.4.1.79","url":null,"abstract":"Critical scholarship on Israel/Palestine tends to focus on conceptualising the settler colonial practices that characterise this conflict, but have failed to account for how these practices are reproduced and sustained over time. To address this gap, rather than focusing on Israel’s quantifiable strengths such as military might, the use of law, the economy, and diplomacy, this article investigates the reciprocal relations between the formation of Israeli modes of being or subjectivities, on the one hand, and the generation and distribution of settler colonial usufruct, on the other. The examination of the processes of subjectivity formation in their settler colonial register on the side of the coloniser enables to understand how the circuits of settler colonial power endure, in this particular case.","PeriodicalId":152877,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Perpetrator Research","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-04-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133854277","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Biljana Plavšić at the ICTY: A Feminist Analysis of Representations of the Self","authors":"K. Krulišová","doi":"10.21039/jpr.3.1.58","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21039/jpr.3.1.58","url":null,"abstract":"This paper focuses on the legal defence of Biljana Plavsic before the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia. It analyses the discursive strategies chosen by Plavsic in her plea of guilt. Utilising the theoretical concepts of motherhood, ' Beautiful Soul' , double and triple transgressions, and Othering, together with legal and criminological debates on chivalry, Plavsic' s representations of herself and her actions during the war are critically analysed. Studying the case of Plavsic, this article aims to enrich the existing feminist debates on the representation of violent women in the media and in justice tribunals.","PeriodicalId":152877,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Perpetrator Research","volume":"43 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-05-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128708603","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Milgram Revisited: Can We still Use Milgram’s ‘Obedience to Authority’ Experiments to Explain Mass Atrocities after the Opening of the Archives? Review Essay","authors":"A. Smeulers","doi":"10.21039/jpr.3.1.45","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21039/jpr.3.1.45","url":null,"abstract":"Milgram’s obedience to authority experiments were conducted more than 50 years ago and can undoubtfully be considered one of the most important but also most controversial studies ever conducted. In the last few years (2011-2015), a book on Milgram was published, a film made and 4 international peer-reviewed journals dedicated a special issue to Milgram’s experiments. All this triggered by the opening of the Yale archives which gave access to Milgram’s personal notes. This review essay has three aims: to analyse to what extent this new information sheds new light on the Milgram experiments; to assess what we can actually learn from Milgram’s experiments and to discuss whether his findings can help us understand mass atrocities such as the Holocaust.","PeriodicalId":152877,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Perpetrator Research","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-05-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122700046","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"“They Forgot Their Role”: Women Perpetrators of the Holocaust and the Genocide Against the Tutsi in Rwanda","authors":"Sara E. Brown","doi":"10.21039/jpr.3.1.34","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21039/jpr.3.1.34","url":null,"abstract":"They Forgot Their Role is a comparative study of women’s actions and agency during genocide, examining women perpetrators of the Holocaust and the genocide in Rwanda. It foregrounds the stories of individuals’ experiences of genocide and examines the impact of deeply entrenched patriarchal systems on women who became perpetrators in Nazi Germany and 1994 Rwanda. It explores how, in both instances, many of the socially prescribed and perpetuated norms of gendered behavior were suspended, modified, or dissolved. It asks how this “relaxing” of the patriarchal order facilitated women’s participation in both genocides and considers the impact of a prevailing silence that has influenced women’s post-genocide trajectories and narratives. Men perpetrators are “ordinary,” women perpetrators are “aberrant, flawed, or inhuman.” And it argues for further discussion and analysis of women perpetrators in contemporary society and in scholarship.","PeriodicalId":152877,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Perpetrator Research","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-05-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129885773","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Crimes of the Wehrmacht: A Re-evaluation","authors":"Alex J. Kay, D. Stahel","doi":"10.21039/jpr.3.1.29","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21039/jpr.3.1.29","url":null,"abstract":"Of the up to eighteen million men who served in the Wehrmacht during the Second World War, ten million were deployed at one time or another between 1941 and 1944 in the conflict against the Soviet Union, a theatre of widespread and sustained mass violence. In order to determine how extensive complicity in Nazi crimes was among the mass of the regular German soldiers, it is necessary first of all to define what constitutes a criminal undertaking. The sheer brutality of the German conduct of war and occupation in the Soviet Union has overshadowed many activities that would otherwise be rightly held up as criminal acts.","PeriodicalId":152877,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Perpetrator Research","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-05-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127345283","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A moment of reflection and innovation in perpetrator studies","authors":"Timothy Williams","doi":"10.21039/jpr.3.1.61","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21039/jpr.3.1.61","url":null,"abstract":"This edited volume is a welcome addition to the growing body of monographs, edited volumes, and articles on perpetrator studies. It brings together many interesting chapters that individually provide innovation and insight on particular topics or issues, such as questions of methodology and ethics, perspectives on perpetration as a process, the complexity of grey zones, the role of ideology, and new approaches to studying international criminal trials. In its entirety it also contributes to a more general reflection on where we are in perpetrator studies today. While the three editors all have a background in (international) criminal law and criminology, the volume brings together authors from various different disciplinary backgrounds, particularly sociology, anthropology, (oral) history, and political science.1 The volume is divided into five parts and begins with an historical overview of the study of perpetrators that succinctly demonstrates how the field has broadened considerably in terms of disciplinary perspectives (from history and psychology to a plethora of further disciplines) and how it has incorporated perspectives from many more cases beyond the Holocaust (Alette Smeulers). The second chapter (Alette Smeulers, Barbora Holá, Maartje Weerdesteijn) takes stock of “what we know” in perpetrator studies today, admirably condensing the state of the art regarding factors that cause people to become perpetrators, differentiating between dispositional, situational, and societal explanations and adding process-based explanations that focus on insights from terrorism literature. In addition, the chapter differentiates in a systematic and useful manner between the methodological approaches used. This chapter is an excellent synthesis of the state of the art, but","PeriodicalId":152877,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Perpetrator Research","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-05-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124096277","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Evidence and Expert Authority via Symbolic Violence: A Critique of Current Knowledge Production on Perpetrators","authors":"D. Bultmann","doi":"10.21039/jpr.3.1.36","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21039/jpr.3.1.36","url":null,"abstract":"A critique of current knowledge production on perpetrators which addresses the lack of awareness and discussion of the existence of a fieldwork industry and its impact on data collection in numerous qualitative studies.","PeriodicalId":152877,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Perpetrator Research","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-05-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124845345","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Three Stories and Three Questions about Participation in Genocide","authors":"Aliza Luft","doi":"10.21039/jpr.3.1.37","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21039/jpr.3.1.37","url":null,"abstract":"This essay articulates the importance of focusing on behavioral actions in research on genocide rather than on categories of people. Then, through a brief review of research on dehumanization, it demonstrates how a focus on actions over actors helps explain behavioral variation in genocide. It also highlights the need for researchers to consider their own positionality when studying participation in genocide, as research on genocide is always fraught with complex questions of moral right and wrong.","PeriodicalId":152877,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Perpetrator Research","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-05-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128331495","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}