Essays about: "Emil Kjerte"
Found 1 essay containing the words Emil Kjerte.
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1. A Comparative Study of the My Lai and Bialystok Massacres : The Social Mechanisms of Perpetration and their Causal Determinants
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Hugo Valentin-centrumAbstract : This thesis offers a comparative study of the My Lai massacre perpetrated by American soldiers during the Vietnam in War and the massacre in Bialystok carried out by a police unit operating under the Nazi regime. Using theories from social psychology in combination witha careful scrutiny of sources from criminal investigations, it seeks to elucidate the social mechanisms of perpetration in the two cases and explores how their divergent macro-level contexts facilitated distinctions in the perpetrator’s behavioural patterns and motivations. READ MORE