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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Waller, James, 1961-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Genocide--Psychological aspects.

Genocide.

Social psychology.

Physical Description:

xx, 316 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2002.

Contents:

Part I. What Are the Origins of Extraordinary Human Evil?

Introduction: A Place Called Mauthausen 3

1. The Nature of Extraordinary Human Evil 9

"Nits Make Lice" 23

2. Killers of Conviction: Groups, Ideology, and Extraordinary Evil 29

Dovey's Story 50

3. The "Mad Nazi": Psychopathology, Personality, and Extraordinary Evil 55

The Massacre at Babi Yar 88

4. The Dead End of Demonization 94

The Invasion of Dili 124

Part II. Beyond Demonization: How Ordinary People Commit Extraordinary Evil

A Model of Extraordinary Human Evil 133

5. What Is the Nature of Human Nature? Our Ancestral Shadow 136

The Tonle Sap Massacre 169

6. Who Are the Killers? Identities of the Perpetrators 175

Death of a Guatemalan Village 197

7. What Is the Immediate Social Context? A Culture of Cruelty 202

The Church of Ntamara 230

8. Who Is the "Other"? Social Death of the Victims 236

The "Safe Area" of Srebrenica 258

Part III. What Have We Learned and Why Does It Matter?

9. Conclusion: Can We Be Delivered from Extraordinary Evil? 267.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-309) and index.

ISBN:

0195148681

OCLC:

49704682