The Lucifer Effect by Philip Zimbardo  

Reference List on Evil


Collected by Phil Zimbardo and Kieran O’Connor

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Canada, G. (1995). Fist, Stick, Knife, Gun: A Personal History of Violence in America. Boston: Beacon Press.

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Dray, P. (2003). At the Hands of Persons Unknown: The Lynching of Black America. New York: Modern Library.

Evans, G. R. (1990). Augustine on Evil. New York: Cambridge University Press.

Feitlowitz, M. (1998). A Lexicon of Terror: Argentina and the Legacies of Torture. New York: Oxford University Press.

Foucault, M. (1995). Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison (A. Sheridan, Trans.). New York: Vintage Books.

Frankfurter, D. (2006). Evil Incarnate: Rumors of Demonic Conspiracy and Ritual Abuse in History. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.

Friedman, L. M. (1993). Crime and Punishment in American History. New York: Basic Books.

Gerzon, M. (1992). A Choice of Heroes: The Changing Faces of American Manhood. Boston: Houghton Mifflin.

Ginzburg, R. (1996). 100 Years of Lynchings. Baltimore, MD: Black Classic Press.

Goethe, J. W. v. (2001). Faust (W. Arndt, Trans. Norton Critical Edition, 2nd Edition). New York: W.W. Norton.

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Huggins, M. K., Haritos-Fatouros, M., & Zimbardo, P. G. (2002). Violence Workers: Police Torturers and Murderers Reconstruct Brazilian Atrocities. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.

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