Nestar Russell
University of Calgary Calgary, AB, Canada. Dr. Nestar Russell is a criminologist originally from New Zealand and came to Canada in 2011 on a Commonwealth/Canadian Government scholarship. He now works as an instructor in sociology at the University of Calgary. Recently Nestar's PhD thesis (2009) was published as a two-volume book titled "Understanding Willing Participants: Milgram's Obedience Experiments and the Holocaust" (Palgrave Macmillan). Volume 1 is quite expensive but importantly Volume 2 starts off with a comprehensive overview of Volume 1's key arguments and is a free "open access" book (see below for a PDF). A somewhat grossly abridged version of the books' main argument is captured in his below 12k-long article "An Important Milgram-Holocaust Linkage" in the Canadian Journal of Sociology (also a free "open access" document). In the past Russell published articles on Milgram’s experiments in scholarly outlets including the British Journal of Social Psychology, Journal of Social Issues, State Crime Journal, Canadian Journal of Sociology, and twice in The American Review of Public Administration and Social Sciences. His research interests include the "Milgram-Holocaust linkage", perpetrator behaviour during the Holocaust, state crime, organizational malevolence, the social history of capital punishment, responsibility avoidance and climate change, commercial graffiti and the social construction of crime. Over the last 10 years Russell has taught a wide variety of courses in criminology and sociology.University of Calgary Calgary, AB, Canada. Dr. Nestar Russell is a criminologist originally from New Zealand and came to Canada in 2011 on a Commonwealth/Canadian Government scholarship. He now works as an instructor in sociology at the University of Calgary. Recently Nestar's PhD thesis (2009) was published as a two-volume book titled "Understanding Willing Participants: Milgram's Obedience Experiments and the Holocaust" (Palgrave Macmillan). Volume 1 is quite expensive but importantly Volume 2 starts off with a comprehensive overview of Volume 1's key arguments and is a free "open access" book (see below for a PDF). A somewhat grossly abridged version of the books' main argument is captured in his below 12k-long article "An Important Milgram-Holocaust Linkage" in the Canadian Journal of Sociology (also a free "open access" document). In the past Russell published articles on Milgram’s experiments in scholarly outlets including the British Journal of Social Psychology, Journal of Social Issues, State Crime Journal, Canadian Journal of Sociology, and twice in The American Review of Public Administration and Social Sciences. His research interests include the "Milgram-Holocaust linkage", perpetrator behaviour during the Holocaust, state crime, organizational malevolence, the social history of capital punishment, responsibility avoidance and climate change, commercial graffiti and the social construction of crime. Over the last 10 years Russell has taught a wide variety of courses in criminology and sociology.
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About Nestar Russell
University of Calgary Calgary, AB, Canada. Dr. Nestar Russell is a criminologist originally from New Zealand and came to Canada in 2011 on a Commonwealth/Canadian Government scholarship. He now works as an instructor in sociology at the University of Calgary. Recently Nestar's PhD thesis (2009) was published as a two-volume book titled "Understanding Willing Participants: Milgram's Obedience Experiments and the Holocaust" (Palgrave Macmillan). Volume 1 is quite expensive but importantly Volume 2 starts off with a comprehensive overview of Volume 1's key arguments and is a free "open access" book (see below for a PDF). A somewhat grossly abridged version of the books' main argument is captured in his below 12k-long article "An Important Milgram-Holocaust Linkage" in the Canadian Journal of Sociology (also a free "open access" document). In the past Russell published articles on Milgram’s experiments in scholarly outlets including the British Journal of Social Psychology, Journal of Social Issues, State Crime Journal, Canadian Journal of Sociology, and twice in The American Review of Public Administration and Social Sciences. His research interests include the "Milgram-Holocaust linkage", perpetrator behaviour during the Holocaust, state crime, organizational malevolence, the social history of capital punishment, responsibility avoidance and climate change, commercial graffiti and the social construction of crime. Over the last 10 years Russell has taught a wide variety of courses in criminology and sociology.
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Understanding Willing Participants, Volume 2
Horrified by the Holocaust, social psychologist Stanley Milgram wondered if he could recreate the Holocaust in the laboratory setting. Unabated for more than half a century, his (in)famous results have continued to intrigue scholars. Based on unpublished archival data from Milgram’s personal collection, volume one of this two-volume set introduces readers to a behind the scenes account showing how during Milgram’s unpublished pilot studies he step-by-step invented his official experimental procedure—how he gradually learnt to transform most ordinary people into willing inflictors of harm. The open access volume two then illustrates how certain innovators within the Nazi regime used the very same Milgram-like learning techniques that with increasing effectiveness gradually enabled them to also transform most ordinary people into increasingly capable executioners of other men, women, and children. Volume two effectively attempts to capture how step-by-step these Nazi innovators attempted to transform the Führer’s wish of a Jewish-free Europe into a frightening reality. By the books’ end the reader will gain an insight into how the seemingly undoable can become increasingly doable.
