Table of Contents

Preface: "I Couldn't Do This to Someone"; Part 1: 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 2: Beyond Demonization: How Ordinary People Commit Extraordinary Evil; A Model of Extraordinary Human Evil; 5. The Nature of Human Nature: Our Ancestral Shadow; The Tonle Sap Massacre; 6. Defining the Killers: Identities of the Perpetrators; Death of a Guatemalan Village; 7. Immediate Social context: A Culture of Cruelty; The Church at Ntamara; 8. Defining the "Other": Social Death of the Victims; The Safe Area of Srebrenica; Part 3: What Have We Learned and Why Does It Matter?; 9. Conclusion: Can We Be Delivered from Extraordinary Evil?

Reviews

"Clearly and effectively synthesizes a wide range of studies to develop an original and persuasive model of the processes by which people can become evil... an excellent choice for readers just beginning to investigate the phenomenon."--Publishers Weekly