Waller, James, 1961-

Becoming evil : how ordinary people commit genocide and mass killing / James Waller. - 2nd ed. - Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007. - xxvi, 351 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

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

Foreword to the Second Edition / Foreword to the First Edition / What are the origins of extraordinary human evil? -- Introduction : a place called Mauthausen -- nature of extraordinary human evil -- "Nits make lice" -- Killers of conviction : groups, ideology, and extraordinary human evil -- "Dovey's story" -- "Mad Nazi" : psychopathology, personality, and extraordinary human evil -- massacre at Babi Yar -- dead of demonization -- invasion of Dili -- How do ordinary people commit genocide and mass killing? -- Beyond demonization : a model of how ordinary people commit genocide and mass killing -- Tonle Sap massacre -- Cultural construction of worldview : Who are the killers? -- Death of a Guatemalan village -- Physical construction of the "other" : social death of the victims -- church of Ntarama -- Social construction of cruelty : the power of the situation -- "safe area" of Srebrenica -- Conclusion : Can we be delivered from extraordinary human evil? -- Postscript : past as present -- Notes -- Selected bibliography -- Index. Gregory H. Stanton -- Christopher R. Browning -- pt. 1. 1. The 2. 3. The The 4. The The pt. 2. 5. The 6. 7. The 8. The 9.

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Genocide--Psychological aspects.
Social psychology.

HV6322.7 / .W35 2007

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