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The psychology of genocide, massacres, and extreme violence : why "normal" people come to commit atrocities
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- Creator
- Donald G. Dutton
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Westport, Conn. : Praeger Security International, 2007
- Physical Details
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- xii, 199 pages ; 25 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780275990008, 0275990001
- OCLC
- ocm82673660
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [159]-190) and index.
- A history of violence -- Mass violence in the twentieth century -- Genocides -- The Holocaust -- Military massacres -- Lynchings -- Prison riots -- Societal transitions : the normative shifts in genocide -- Individual transitions to extreme violence -- Rape, serial killers, and the forensic psychology of war -- Individual differences in violent aggression -- Final thoughts -- Postscript : the final summation