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PublisherOxford University Press, Incorporated

ISBN-100195314565

ISBN-139780195314564

eBay Product ID (ePID)54369909

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Edition2

Book TitleBecoming Evil : How Ordinary People Commit Genocide and Mass Killing

Number of Pages384 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicGenocide & War Crimes, Violence in Society, Social Psychology

Publication Year2007

FeaturesRevised

IllustratorYes

GenrePolitical Science, Social Science, Psychology

AuthorJames E. Waller

FormatPerfect

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Item Height0.7 in

Item Weight18.7 Oz

Item Length9.2 in

Item Width6.6 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2006-048282

Dewey Edition22

Reviews"...offers a psychological explanation as to why some human beings are so deliberately harmful to others...A fascinating glimpse of evolutionary psychology is presented... an eyewitness account of inhumanity."--Journal of American Medicine Association, "...offers a psychological explanation as to why some human beings are so deliberately harmful to others...A fascinating glimpse of evolutionary psychology is presented... an eyewitness account of inhumanity."-- Journal of American Medicine Association

Dewey Decimal364.151019

Table Of Content1. The Nature of Extraordinary Human Evil"Nits Make Lice"2. Killers of Conviction: Groups, Ideology, and Extraordinary Human EvilDovey's Story3. The "Mad Nazi": Psychopathology, Personality, and Extraordinary Human EvilThe Massacre at Babi Yar4. The Dead End of DemonizationThe Invasion of Dili5. Beyond Demonization: A Model of How Ordinary People Commit Genocide and Mass KillingThe Tonle Sap Massacre6. Cultural Construction of Worldview: Who Are the Killers?Death of a Guatemalan Village7. Psychological Construction of the "Other": Social Death of the VictimsThe Church of Ntarama8. Social Construction of Cruelty: Power of the SituationThe "Safe Arena" of Srebrenica9. Conclusion: Can We Be Delivered From Extraordinary Human Evil?

Edition DescriptionRevised edition

SynopsisSocial psychologist James Waller uncovers the internal and external factors that can lead ordinary people to commit extraordinary acts of evil. Waller offers a sophisticated and comprehensive psychological view of how anyone can potentially participate in heinous crimes against humanity. He outlines the evolutionary forces that shape human nature, the individual dispositions that are more likely to engage in acts of evil, and the context of cruelty in which these extraordinary acts can emerge. Eyewitness accounts are presented at the end of each chapter. In this second edition, Waller has revised and updated eyewitness accounts and substantially reworked Part II of the book, removing the chapter about human nature and evolutionary adaptations, and instead using this evolutionary perspective as a base for his entire model of human evil., The first edition of Becoming Evil spoke unforgettably to a world shell-shocked by 9/11 that faced a new war on terror against members of an Axis of Evil. 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, particularly those from the perennially troubled Balkans and Africa, 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 multiply influenced, and that any answer to the question "Why did that person act as he or she did?" can be examined at two levels of analysis-- the proximate and the ultimate. Bookended by a powerful new foreword from Greg Stanton, vice-president of the International Association of Genocide Scholars, and a devastating postscript that addresses current outbreaks of genocide and mass killing, this new edition demonstrates that genocide is a problem whose time has not yet passed, but Waller's clear vision gives hope that at least we can begin to understand how ordinary people are recruited into the process of destruction.

LC Classification NumberHV6322.7.W35 2007