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Becoming Evil : How Ordinary People Commit Genocide and Mass Killing

ISBN: 9780195314564 | 0195314565
Edition: 2nd
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Pub. Date: 3/22/2007

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SummaryTable of ContentsAuthor Biography
"With this second edition, James Waller brings us up to date on some of the horrific events he used in the first edition to illustrate his theory of extraordinary human evil, pointing out steps taken both forward and back. Nearly a third of the references are new, reflecting the rapid pace of scholarship in Holocaust and genocide studies, and the issue of gender now occupies a prominent place in the discussion of the social construction of cruelty. Waller also offers a reconfigured explanatory model of evil to acknowledge that human behavior is... MORE
Foreword to the Second Editionp. vii
Foreword to the First Editionp. xi
What are the Origins of Extraordinary Human Evil?
Introduction: A Place Called Mauthausenp. 3
The Nature of Extraordinary Human Evilp. 9
"Nits Make Lice"p. 25
Killers of Conviction: Groups, Ideology, and Extraordinary Human Evilp. 33
Dovey's Storyp. 54
Th... MOREp. 59
The Massacre at Babi Yarp. 92
The Dead End of Demonizationp. 98
The Invasion of Dilip. 128
How Do Ordinary People Commit Genocide and Mass Killing?
Beyond Demonization: A Model of How Ordinary People Commit Genocide and Mass Killingp. 137
The Tonle Sap Massacrep. 163
Cultural Construction of Worldview: "Who Are the Killers?p. 171
Death of a Guatemalan Villagep. 190
Psychological Construction of the "Other": Social Death of the Victimsp. 196
The Church of Ntaramap. 221
Social Construction of Cruelty: The Power of the Situationp. 230
The "Safe Area" of Srebrenicap. 272
What Have We Learned, and Why Does It Matter?
Conclusion: Can We Be Delivered from Extraordinary Human Evil?p. 281
Postscript: Past as Presentp. 299
Notesp. 305
Selected Bibliographyp. 331
Indexp. 343
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James Waller is Professor and Lindaman Chair of Psychology at Whitworth College in Spokane, Washington.

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