Becoming evil : how ordinary people commit genocide and mass killing
Author(s)
Bibliographic Information
Becoming evil : how ordinary people commit genocide and mass killing
Oxford University Press, 2007
2nd ed
- : pbk
- : hbk
Available at 12 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Social psychologist James Waller uncovers the internal and external factors that can lead ordinary people to commit extraordinary acts of evil. Waller offers a sophisticated and comprehensive psychological view of how anyone can potentially participate in heinous crimes against humanity. He outlines the evolutionary forces that shape human nature, the individual dispositions that are more likely to engage in acts of evil, and the context of cruelty in which these
extraordinary acts can emerge. Eyewitness accounts are presented at the end of each chapter. In this second edition, Waller has revised and updated eyewitness accounts and substantially reworked Part II of the book, removing the chapter about human nature and evolutionary adaptations, and instead using
this evolutionary perspective as a base for his entire model of human evil.
Table of Contents
- 1. The Nature of Extraordinary Human Evil
- "NITS MAKE LICE"
- 2. Killers of Conviction: Groups, Ideology, and Extraordinary Human Evil
- DOVEY'S STORY
- 3. The "Mad Nazi": Psychopathology, Personality, and Extraordinary Human Evil
- THE MASSACRE AT BABI YAR
- 4. The Dead End of Demonization
- THE INVASION OF DILI
- 5. Beyond Demonization: A Model of How Ordinary People Commit Genocide and Mass Killing
- THE TONLE SAP MASSACRE
- 6. Cultural Construction of Worldview: Who Are the Killers?
- DEATH OF A GUATEMALAN VILLAGE
- 7. Psychological Construction of the "Other": Social Death of the Victims
- THE CHURCH OF NTARAMA
- 8. Social Construction of Cruelty: Power of the Situation
- THE "SAFE ARENA" OF SREBRENICA
- 9. Conclusion: Can We Be Delivered From Extraordinary Human Evil?
by "Nielsen BookData"