Becoming evil : how ordinary people commit genocide and mass killing / James Waller.
Waller, James, 1961-
2002
HV6322.7 .W35 2002 (Mapit)
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Title Becoming evil : how ordinary people commit genocide and mass killing / James Waller.
Author Waller, James, 1961-
ISBN 0195148681 (alk. paper)
Imprint Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2002.
Language English
Description xx, 316 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Call Number HV6322.7 .W35 2002
Dewey Decimal Classification 364.15/1/019
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references (p. 303-309) and index.
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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?

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