Emotions, Decision-Making and Mass Atrocities
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Anticipatory Skin Conductance Responses
arousal
Atrocity Crimes
Author_Olaoluwa Olusanya
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Classic Strain Theories
cognitive
criminological theory
Cumulative Radicalization
dehumanisation processes
dissonance
Dissonance Arousal
emotional arousal in crime
emotional factors in collective violence
Enabling Act
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evolutionary social science
executioners
Gangrenous Appendix
general
Genocidal Groups
group violence psychology
GST
Hitler's Intuitions
Hitler’s Intuitions
Hutu Male
Hutu Ten Commandments
IGT
Justification Suppression Model
Mass Atrocities
Mass Atrocity Crimes
moral disengagement
Nazi Doctors
OC Symptom
Reich Chancellor Adolf Hitler
reluctant
Reluctant Executioners
Righteous Response
SS Doctor
strain
Strain Theory
theory
tutsi
VM Patient
women
Young Men
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- ISBN 9781472431035
- Weight: 430g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 02 Jun 2014
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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This book rehumanizes perpetrators of mass atrocities. At present a victim/perpetrator dichotomy appears to be the dominant paradigm: perpetrators have either been ’mechanistically dehumanized’, that is, perceived as unemotional, hard-hearted and conforming and thereby lacking the core features of human nature or alternatively, they have been ’animalistically dehumanized’. In other words they are seen as immoral, unintelligent, lacking self-control and likened to animals. Within sociology and criminology the dominant view is that genocide and other mass atrocities are committed by technologically-lobotomized perpetrators. Somehow the process of rationalization is believed to have transformed these people from emotionally healthy people into hollow soulless shells of human beings or zombies, devoid of a full range of normal emotions. These people are considered bereft of any ability to reason, think or feel, yet ambulant and able to respond to surrounding stimuli. However it is difficult to imagine crime (especially those involving a group of people working together for the duration of a particular criminal activity) without emotions. For instance, there is ample evidence suggesting that both crimes of passion and pre-meditated crimes involve emotional arousal. Furthermore, research in fields such as evolutionary biology, psychology and sociology of work and organizations suggest that emotions are essential for human progress and survival. In addition, emotions help us make the right call in risky and uncertain situations, in other words, the majority of real life situations. There is, therefore, a need to revisit existing assumptions around the role of emotions in mass atrocities.
Olaoluwa Olusanya is currently a Lecturer at the Department of Law and Criminology, Aberystwyth University, UK. His most recent work has appeared in journals such as the British Journal of Criminology, New Criminal Law Review, Psychiatry, Psychology and Law and Critical Criminology. He is a member of several associations including the British Society of Criminology, British Psychological Society Forensics Division (Affiliate member), British Sociological Association and the Higher Education Academy. He is the author of several books on international crimes.
