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Author Kelman, Herbert C.

Title Crimes of obedience : toward a social psychology of authority and responsibility / Herbert C. Kelman and V. Lee Hamilton
Published New Haven, Conn. : Yale University Press, 1989

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Description xiii, 382 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Contents 1. The My Lai massacre: a military crime of obedience -- 2. The scope of crimes of obedience: recent cases, persistent issues -- 3. The duty to obey and the duty to disobey -- 4. The structure of authority -- 5. the dynamics of authority -- 6. Challenging authority -- 7. Attitudes and norms about obedience: public reactions to the My Lai massacre -- 8. Responsibility in authority situations -- 9. Assigning responsibility for a crime of obedience: public reactions to the Calley trial -- 10. Assertion and denial of responsibility: the generality of reactions to crimes of obedience -- 11. Individual differences in conceptions of authority and responsibility -- 12. Rules, roles, and values: three orientations to authority -- 13. On breaking the habit of unquestioning obedience -- Appendix A. Information about and interest in the Calley trial: findings from the 1971 survey -- Appendix B. Differences between the 1971 and 1976 survey populations
Analysis Politics Authority
Politics Authority
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Bibliography: pages 351-367
Subject Authority -- Moral and ethical aspects.
Authority.
Government, Resistance to -- United States -- Public opinion.
Military discipline -- Moral and ethical aspects.
Military discipline -- United States -- Public opinion.
Obedience -- Moral and ethical aspects.
Obedience -- Political aspects.
Political crimes and offenses -- Moral and ethical aspects.
Public opinion -- United States.
Responsibility -- Moral and ethical aspects.
Authoritarianism.
Criminal Psychology.
Ethics.
Politics.
Psychology, Social.
Public Opinion.
Author Hamilton, V. Lee.
LC no. 88050549
ISBN 0300041845
0300048130 (paperback)