Becoming Evil: How Ordinary People Commit Genocide and Mass Killing

PART 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 PART 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 Perpetrators Death of a Guatemalan Village 7. What is the Immediate Social Context? A Culture of Cruelty The Church at Ntamara 8. Who Is the "Other"? Social Death of the Victims The "Safe Area" of Srebrenica PART III: WHAT HAVE WE LEARNED AND WHY DOES IT MATTER? 9. Conclusion: Can We Be Delivered from Extraordinary Evil?