The Psychology of Genocide, Massacres, and Extreme Violence : Why ""Normal"" People Come to Commit Atrocities


Donald. Dutton
Bok Engelsk 2007 · Electronic books.
Annen tittel
Utgitt
Westport : : Greenwood Publishing Group, , 2007.
Omfang
1 online resource (213 p.)
Opplysninger
Description based upon print version of record.. - CONTENTS; PREFACE; A HISTORY OF VIOLENCE; MASS VIOLENCE IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY; GENOCIDES; THE HOLOCAUST; MILITARY MASSACRES; LYNCHINGS; PRISON RIOTS; SOCIETAL TRANSITIONS; RAPE, SERIAL KILLERS, AND THE FORENSIC PSYCHOLOGY OF WAR; INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES IN VIOLENT AGGRESSION; FINAL THOUGHTS; POSTSCRIPT; EPILOGUE; NOTES; INDEX; ABOUT THE AUTHOR. - A psychologist explains how and why ""normal"" people are transformed, in a relatively short amount of time, into sadistic torturers and mass killers for a cause.
Emner
Sjanger
Dewey
304
ISBN
0275990001. - 9780275990008

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