Crimes Of Obedience
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Crimes of Obedience
Author | : Herbert C. Kelman |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 408 |
Release | : 1989-01-01 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 9780300048131 |
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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.