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020 _a0195180933 (cloth : alk. paper)
020 _a9780195180930 (cloth : alk. paper)
020 _a0195314565 (pbk. : alk. paper)
020 _a9780195314564 (pbk. : alk. paper)
040 _cDLC
082 0 0 _a364 OUP 2007 C151 Or.
100 1 _aWaller, James,
245 1 0 _aBecoming evil :
_bhow ordinary people commit genocide and mass killing /
250 _a2nd ed
260 _aOxford ;
_aNew York :
_bOxford University Press,
_c2007
300 _axxvi, 351 p. :
_bill. ;
_c24 cm
520 1 _a"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 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."--BOOK JACKET
650 0 _aGenocide
650 0 _aSocial psychology
856 4 2 _uhttp://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0726/2006048282-d.html
856 4 1 _uhttp://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0726/2006048282-t.html
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