TY - GEN T1 - Violent accounts : understanding the psychology of perpetrators through South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission T2 - Qualitative studies in psychology. A1 - Kraft, Robert Nathaniel LA - English PP - New York PB - New York University Press YR - 2014 UL - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_ocn879306210 AB - 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 Truth and Reconciliation Commission, the book interweaves hundreds of hours of testimony from seventy-four violent perpetrators in apartheid South Africa, including twelve major cases that involved direct interactions between victims and perpetrators. The analysis of perpetrator testimony covers all tiers on the hierarchy of organized violence, from executives who translated political doctrine into general strategies, to managers who translated these general strategies into specific plans, to the staff--the foot soldiers--who carried out the destructive plans of these managers. OP - 201 CN - DT1974.2 .K73 2014 SN - 9781479870288 SN - 1479870285 SN - 9781479821600 SN - 1479821608 KW - South Africa. : Truth and Reconciliation Commission. KW - South Africa. : Truth and Reconciliation Commission KW - Restorative justice : South Africa : Psychological aspects. KW - Violence : South Africa : Psychological aspects. KW - Apartheid : South Africa : Psychological aspects. KW - Justice reĢparatrice : Afrique du Sud : Aspect psychologique. KW - Violence : Afrique du Sud : Aspect psychologique. KW - Apartheid : Afrique du Sud : Aspect psychologique. KW - HISTORY : Africa : South : General. KW - HISTORY : Africa : South : Republic of South Africa. KW - PSYCHOLOGY : General. KW - Apartheid : Psychological aspects KW - Violence : Psychological aspects KW - South Africa ER -