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By Robert N. Kraft

Violent Accounts offers a compelling examine of ways traditional humans devote awesome acts of violence and the way perpetrators and sufferers deal with within the aftermath. Grounded in wide, qualitative research of wrongdoer testimony, the quantity unearths the person reviews of perpetrators in addition to normal styles of impression that bring about collective violence.
 
Drawing on public testimony from the amnesty hearings of the South African fact and Reconciliation fee, the booklet interweaves countless numbers of hours of testimony from seventy-four violent perpetrators in apartheid South Africa, together with twelve significant situations that concerned direct interactions among sufferers and perpetrators. The research of culprit testimony covers all levels at the hierarchy of prepared violence, from executives who translated political doctrine into common options, to managers who translated those basic recommendations into particular plans, to the staff—the foot soldiers—who performed the harmful plans of those managers.  
 
Vivid and available, Violent Accounts is a piece of leading edge scholarship that transcends the details of the reality and Reconciliation fee to bare broader subject matters and unforeseen insights approximately perpetrators of collective violence, the confrontations among sufferers and perpetrators within the aftermath of this violence, the truth of a number of truths, the complexities of reconciliation, and classes of restorative justice.

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