Syndetics cover image
Image from Syndetics
Image from Google Jackets
Image from OpenLibrary
See Baker & Taylor
Image from Baker & Taylor

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

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.Edition: 2nd edDescription: xxvi, 351 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0195180933 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 9780195180930 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 0195314565 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 9780195314564 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 364.15/1019 22
LOC classification:
  • HV6322.7 .W35 2007
Online resources:
Contents:
Foreword to the Second Edition / Gregory H. Stanton -- Foreword to the First Edition / Christopher R. Browning -- pt. 1. What are the origins of extraordinary human evil? -- Introduction : a place called Mauthausen -- 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 of demonization -- The invasion of Dili -- pt. 2. How do ordinary people commit genocide and mass killing? -- 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. Physical construction of the "other" : social death of the victims -- The church of Ntarama -- 8. Social construction of cruelty : the power of the situation -- The "safe area" of Srebrenica -- 9. Conclusion : Can we be delivered from extraordinary human evil? -- Postscript : past as present -- Notes -- Selected bibliography -- Index.
Reviews from LibraryThing.com:
Tags from this library: No tags from this library for this title. Log in to add tags.
Star ratings
    Average rating: 0.0 (0 votes)
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Books Books Institute of Legal Practice and Development Library- Kigali Branch 364.15/1019 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 002002K
Browsing Institute of Legal Practice and Development Library- Kigali Branch shelves Close shelf browser (Hides shelf browser)
See Baker & Taylor
See Baker & Taylor
See Baker & Taylor
See Baker & Taylor
See Baker & Taylor
See Baker & Taylor
See Baker & Taylor
364.15/1 The crime of genocide : 364.15/1/0904 Final solutions : 364.15/1/0967571 We wish to inform you that tomorrow we will be killed with our families : 364.15/1019 Becoming evil : 364.15/109 Genocide / 364.15/109 Genocide / 364.15/109 Genocide /

Includes bibliographical references (p. 331-342) and index.

Foreword to the Second Edition / Gregory H. Stanton -- Foreword to the First Edition / Christopher R. Browning -- pt. 1. What are the origins of extraordinary human evil? -- Introduction : a place called Mauthausen -- 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 of demonization -- The invasion of Dili -- pt. 2. How do ordinary people commit genocide and mass killing? -- 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. Physical construction of the "other" : social death of the victims -- The church of Ntarama -- 8. Social construction of cruelty : the power of the situation -- The "safe area" of Srebrenica -- 9. Conclusion : Can we be delivered from extraordinary human evil? -- Postscript : past as present -- Notes -- Selected bibliography -- Index.

There are no comments on this title.

to post a comment.