Ordinary People as Mass Murderers: Perpetrators in Comparative Perspectives

Book Overview

Now available for the first time in paperback, Ordinary People as Mass Murderers offers a series of essays that explore one of the most fundamental and widely-discussed questions confronted by humanity: how do 'ordinary' people come to participate in mass murder? Recent scholarship has presented a complex and heterogeneous picture of ordinary perpetrators and shows that no age group, gender, or social, ethnic, religious or educational cohort is exempt...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1137349336
• ISBN13: 9781137349330
• Release Date: November 2008
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 228 Pages
• Weight: 0.64 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"