Becoming evil : how ordinary people commit genocide and mass killing /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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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 |
Table of Contents:
- 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?