Becoming evil : how ordinary people commit genocide and mass killing

Waller, James 1961- (Author).

Record details

ISBN: 9780195148688 (alk. paper)
ISBN: 0195148681 (alk. paper)
Physical Description: print
xx, 316 p. : ill ; 25 cm.
Publisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2002.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

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

Formatted Contents Note:

Foreword / Christopher R. Browning -- Pt. I. 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 Evil -- Dovey's Story -- 3. The "Mad Nazi": Psychopathology, Personality, and Extraordinary Evil -- The Massacre at Babi Yar -- 4. The Dead End of Demonization -- The Invasion of Dili -- Pt. II. Beyond Demonization: How Ordinary People Commit Extraordinary Evil -- A Model of Extraordinary Human Evil -- 5. What Is the Nature of Human Nature? Our Ancestral Shadow -- The Tonle Sap Massacre -- 6. Who Are the Killers? Identities of the Perperators -- Death of a Guatemalan Village -- 7. What Is the Immediate Social Context: A Culture of Cruelty -- The Church of Ntamara -- 8. Who Is the "Other"? Social Death of the Victims -- The "Safe Area" of Srebrenica -- Pt. III. What Have We Learned and Why Does it Matter? -- 9. Conclusion: Can We Be Delivered from Extraordinary Evil?