Crimes of Obedience: Toward a Social Psychology of Authority and Responsibility
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Sergeant William Calley's defense of his behavior in the My Lai massacre and the widespread public support for his argument that he was merely obeying orders from a superior and was not personally culpable led Herbert C. Kelman and V. Lee Hamilton to investigate the attitudes toward responsibility and authority that underlie "crimes of obedience"--not only in military circumstances like My Lai but as manifested in Watergate, the Iran-Contra scandal,...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0300048130
ISBN13:9780300048131
Release Date:July 1990
Publisher:Yale University Press
Length:320 Pages
Weight:1.38 lbs.
Dimensions:1.0" x 6.1" x 9.2"
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