What kind of person is the state-sanctioned torturer? Under what conditions do governments use torture and violence against their own citizens? This volume shows that under the right conditions even the most righteous among us can become torturers and killers. Approaching the subject through applied social psychology, the book links research on the torturers of the Greek military dictatorship and their victims to psychological studies of authoritarianism, conventionalism, social learning and cognitive theory.
What kind of person is the state-sanctioned torturer? Under what conditions do governments use torture and violence against their own citizens? This v...
Of the twenty-three Brazilian policemen interviewed in depth for this landmark study, fourteen were direct perpetrators of torture and murder during the three decades that included the 1964-1985 military regime. These "violence workers" and the other group of "atrocity facilitators" who had not, or claimed they had not, participated directly in the violence, help answer questions that haunt today's world: Why and how are ordinary men transformed into state torturers and murderers? How do atrocity perpetrators explain and justify their violence? What is the impact of their murderous deeds--on...
Of the twenty-three Brazilian policemen interviewed in depth for this landmark study, fourteen were direct perpetrators of torture and murder during t...
