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Crimes of Obedience

Toward a Social Psychology of Authority and Responsibility

V Lee Hamilton author Herbert Kelman author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Yale University Press

Published:25th Jul '90

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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, and the Kurt Waldheim affair. Their book is an ardent plea for the right and obligation of citizens to resist illegal and immoral orders from above.

ISBN: 9780300048131

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 585g

320 pages