The Escalation of Violence through Legitimation

William A. Westley
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William A. Westley: Department of Sociology and Anthropology of McGill University

The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 1966, vol. 364, issue 1, 120-126

Abstract: A review of the way extreme forms of violence develop reveals that it involves a three-stage process of escala tion from initial support by the public for mild violence by a special group, through support for this special group for extreme forms of violence, to the actual practice of the ex treme forms by a small number of people who enjoy it. This paradigm of the development of violence is applied to crowds, to the police, and to the concentration camp.

Date: 1966
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DOI: 10.1177/000271626636400112

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