Ep. 60- Perpetrators of Mass Violence with Alette Smeulers

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What makes someone a perpetrator? Are killers born or made? One thing that is clear in studying the Holocaust and other genocides is that perpetrators come in all shapes and sizes with just as diverse a set of motivations.
On today’s episode, I talked with Alette Smeulers about her work in studying perpetrators from a variety of perspectives across many different forms of mass violence.

Alette Smeulers (rug.nl/staff/a.l.smeulers/?lang=en) is a professor in the faculty of law at the University of Groningen.

Smeulers, Alette. Perpetrators of Mass Atrocities: Terribly and Terrifyingly Normal? (amzn.to/3IM2QHV) (2023)
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