Becoming evil : how ordinary people commit genocide and mass killing /

Main Author: Waller, James, 1961-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2002.
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Online Access:http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=129239
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300 |a 1 online resource (xx, 316 pages) :  |b illustrations 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-309) and index. 
505 0 |a pt. 1. What are the origins of extraordinary human evil? -- A place called Mauthausen -- The nature of extraordinary human evil -- "Nits make lice" -- Killers of conviction: groups, ideology, and extraordinary evil -- Dovey's story -- The "mad Nazi": psychopathology, personality, and extraordinary evil -- The massacre at Babi Yar -- The dead end of demonization -- The invasion Dili -- pt. 2. Beyond demonization: how ordinary people commit extraordinary evil -- A model of extraordinary human evil -- What is the nature of human nature? Our ancestral shadow -- The Tonle Sap massacre -- Who are the killers? Identities of the perpetrators -- Death of a Guatemalan village -- What is the immediate social context? A culture of cruelty -- The church of Ntamara -- Who is the "other"? Social death of the victims -- The "safe area" of Srebrenica -- pt. 3. What have we learned and why does it matter? -- Can we be delivered from extraordinary evil? 
650 0 |a Genocide  |x Psychological aspects. 
650 0 |a Social psychology. 
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