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Manufacturing Social Distress

Psychopathy in Everyday Life

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  • © 1997

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Authors:
  1. Robert W. Rieber

    1. John Jay College of Criminal Justice and Graduate Center, City University of New York, New York, USA

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
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  2. Introduction

    • Robert W. Rieber
    Pages 1-12

  3. Social Breakdown and the Social Distress Syndrome

    • Robert W. Rieber
    Pages 13-37

  4. The Prince of Darkness and the Heart of Darkness

    • Robert W. Rieber
    Pages 39-58

  5. War and Social Distress

    • Robert W. Rieber
    Pages 59-86

  6. The Banks, Media, and Social Distress

    • Robert W. Rieber
    Pages 87-106

  7. Dreams Money Can Buy

    • Robert W. Rieber
    Pages 107-137

  8. Terrorism, Organized Crime, and Social Distress

    • Robert W. Rieber
    Pages 139-159

  9. Being “Good” in “Bad” Places

    • Robert W. Rieber
    Pages 161-174

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 175-221
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About this book

Toward the Psychology of Malefaction This is a book about human wickedness. I would like to identify two obstacles in the path that this book seeks to traverse. One obstacle is an inappropriate scientism; the other is an inappropriate moralism. There is a kind of scientism that prevents us from seeing that human beings are responsible for what happens on the planet. It is a view that, in the name of science, downplays the role of human beings as agents in what takes place. This view is often expressed in a paradigm that regards human conduct as the "dependent variable," while anything that impinges on the human being is considered the "independent variable." The paradigm further takes the relationship between the dependent and independent variable to be the result of natural law. It charac­ teristically ignores the possibility that individual or collective deci­ sion or policy, generated by human beings and not by natural law, is and can be regulatory of conduct.

Authors and Affiliations

  • John Jay College of Criminal Justice and Graduate Center, City University of New York, New York, USA

    Robert W. Rieber

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Manufacturing Social Distress

  • Book Subtitle: Psychopathy in Everyday Life

  • Authors: Robert W. Rieber

  • Series Title: Path in Psychology

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-0053-1

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 1997

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-306-45346-5Published: 28 February 1997

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4899-0055-5Published: 27 May 2013

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4899-0053-1Published: 29 June 2013

  • Series ISSN: 1574-048X

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XV, 221

  • Topics: Psychology, general, Social Sciences, general, Psychiatry

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