Perpetrator Studies Network

Bibliography

Browning, Christopher. Ordinary Men - 1992

Famous study of the role of obedience and peer pressure in the Holocaust

Bryant, Brandon. Letters from a Sensor Operator. - 2017

Drone operator’s personal account of drone warfare.

Butler, Judith. Frames of War: When is Life Grievable? - 2009

Butler analyses how socio-political structures render certain lives ungrievable

Campbell, Ian L. “Italian Atrocities in Ethiopia: An Enquiry into the Violence of Fascism’s First Military Invasion and Occupation” - 2021

Article about the crimes of Italian fascists in Ethiopia

Card, Claudia. Confronting Evils: Terrorism, Torture, Genocide - 2010

Philosophical work on the concept of evil and collective violence.

Christian Schwochow, dir. Heute ist nicht alle Tage – Die Täter - 2016

TV-movie about the radicalization of Zschäpe, Mundlos and Böhnhardt

Clendinnen, Inga. Reading the Holocaust - 2002

Argues for exploring the Holocaust from victims' and perpetrators' perspective

Coetzee, J. M. Waiting for the Barbarians - 1980

A novel allegorizing the dynamics of perpetration in imperial/despotic systems.

Cohen, Dara Kay. “Female Combatants and the Perpetration of Violence: Wartime Rape in the Sierra Leone Civil War” - 2013

Why women participate in wartime rape

Cusick, Susanne. “‘You are in a Place That is Out of the World…’ Music in the Detention Camps of the ‘Global War on Terror’” - 2008

An overview of how the United States has weaponized music in detention camps