AUTHOR=Cotter Philippe 

TITLE=The path to extreme violence: Nazism and serial killers

JOURNAL=Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience

VOLUME=Volume 3 - 2009

YEAR=2010

URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/behavioral-neuroscience/articles/10.3389/neuro.08.061.2009

DOI=10.3389/neuro.08.061.2009

ISSN=1662-5153

ABSTRACT=In people’s minds, extreme violence is an enigma. The tortures inflicted on defenceless victims seem to defy reason. Yet, the fact that these incidents keep recurring is proof that there are rules governing them. It is these rules that I have attempted to isolate. We shall see that they are clearly defined and that they are to be found in individual as well as collective violence. To categorise them is the first step towards implementing preventative measures which would help to protect the rational majority from a dangerous minority. Practice and theory are inextricably linked in the analysis of ‘organised insanity’ that is extreme violence.