1. Dr. Jekylls Potion, into the grey zone of evil? Dr. Jekylls
Potion, into the grey zone of evil? CREA Theater 25 maart 2010
Christophe Busch
2. Dr. Jekylls Potion into the grey zone of evil? CREA Theater
25 maart 2010 c.busch
3. Dr. Jekylls Potion into the grey zone of evil? CREA Theater
25 maart 2010 c.busch Paradigm shifts in perpetrator research 2010
- Mad or Bad model Innate evil Pathological disturbance Situation
vs disposition Situational forces (conformity, obedience, )
Dispositional forces (attitude, personality, ) Mechanized crime
Murderous bureaucracy Machinery of destruction Typologies &
evolutionary based models 40 50 60 80 90
4. Dr. Jekylls Potion into the grey zone of evil? CREA Theater
25 maart 2010 c.busch TYPOLOGIES (gathering specimen) Duality in
explanations Mad or bad hypothesis Ordinary men Intentionalism
Functionalism Center Periphery Disposition Situation Mono-causal
Multi-causal On the origins of collective violence
5. Dr. Jekylls Potion into the grey zone of evil? CREA Theater
25 maart 2010 c.busch How do ordinary people commit genocide and
mass killing? Ultimate influences: The evolution of Human Nature
Proximate influence: Cultural Construction of worldview (1)
Collectivistic Values (2) Authority Orientation (3) Social
Dominance Proximate influence: Psychological Construction of the
Other (1) Us-Them Thinking (2) Moral Disengagement (3) Blaming the
Victims Proximate influence: Social Construction of cruelty (1)
Professional Socialisation (2) Group Identification (3) Binding
Factors of the Group [James Waller 2006]
6. Dr. Jekylls Potion into the grey zone of evil? CREA Theater
25 maart 2010 c.busch Video: the panthers
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8. Dr. Jekylls Potion into the grey zone of evil? CREA Theater
25 maart 2010 c.busch Conditioning and social learning (functional
drift) Techniques of Neutralization (Sykes & Matza) Denial of
responsibility Pushed or pulled into situations Denial of injury
Acts do not really cause any harm Denial of the victim Self defense
(medical, reproductive,) Condemnations of the condemners Blaming
the others (often historical) Appeal to higher loyalties Race,
nation, Volk, Alex Alvarez Denial of humanity (dehumanization)
Video: the panthers
9. The role of social learning along the continuum of
destruction Genocide = process Systematic desensitization
Initiation Routinization Brutalization Dr. Jekylls Potion into the
grey zone of evil? CREA Theater 25 maart 2010 c.busch The continuum
of destruction Exclusion from the moral world Process of
otherisation Limited acts of violence Severe, gruesome acts of
violence Moral principles become non-applicable to the victims
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11. Dr. Jekylls Potion into the grey zone of evil? CREA Theater
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12. Dr. Jekylls Potion into the grey zone of evil? CREA Theater
25 maart 2010 c.busch Nature versusGOOD EVIL the demonic transition
(a popular view on perpetrator behavior) (a transitional view on
perpetrator behavior)Degree On the individual level!
13. Dr. Jekylls Potion into the grey zone of evil? CREA Theater
25 maart 2010 c.busch Paradigm shifts in perpetrator research 2010
- Mad or Bad model Innate evil Pathological disturbance Situation
vs disposition Situational forces (conformity, obedience, )
Dispositional forces (attitude, personality, ) Mechanized crime
Murderous bureaucracy Machinery of destruction The grey zone of
complexity Complex systems & networks Interactionist theory 40
50 60 80 90
14. Dr. Jekylls Potion into the grey zone of evil? CREA Theater
25 maart 2010 c.busch Paradigm shifts in perpetrator research Mad
or Bad model Innate evil Pathological disturbance Situation vs
disposition Situational forces (conformity, obedience, )
Dispositional forces (attitude, personality, ) Mechanized crime
Murderous bureaucracy Machinery of destruction The grey zone of
complexity Complex systems & networks Interactionist
theory
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25 maart 2010 c.busch Emotional distance Systematic desensitization
apathy Atrocity producing situations Destructive obedience Group
conformity Predisposition
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25 maart 2010 c.busch Patterns emerge from the interactions between
agents (individuals).
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18. Dr. Jekylls Potion into the grey zone of evil? CREA Theater
25 maart 2010 c.busch Who is the leader??
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20. Dr. Jekylls Potion into the grey zone of evil? CREA Theater
25 maart 2010 c.busch Leadership emerges on every level Eichmann =
HUB ? Focus on the information transfer
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25 maart 2010 c.busch Die Entfesselung der Endlsung (Browning)
besteht im Wesentlichen in Arbeit, die gemacht wird. Die
Entfesselung weist mithin eine ganze Reihe nicht-intentionaler
Aspekte auf, die sie vorantreiben, ja, die sie berhaupt erst in die
Sphre tatschlicher Machbarkeit heben. Ein Schlssel fr diese
mrderische Machbarkeit liegt, soziologisch betrachtet, in der auf
den ersten Blick diffusen, tatschlich aber hchst effizienten
Befehlsstruktur. Der Rahmenbefehl zur Judenvernichtung hatte
lediglich eine weit auszulegende Gelegenheitsstruktur geschaffen,
die seinen praktischen Interpreten Ermessensspeilrum bereitstellte,
die diese ganz im Sinne ihres Engagements und ihres Bedrfnisses
nach Effizienz zu nutzen trachteten. [Harald Welzer Tter]
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