Contents -- Preface -- PART I Groups, Activism, and the Tools of Ethnic Cleansing -- No Place Like Home: The Role of Landmines in Ethnic Cleansing in the Twentieth Century -- A Social Psychology of Defiance: From Discontent to Action -- Dichotomous Thinking and Culture of Destruction: Revisiting Youth Activism in China during the May Fourth Period -- PART II Laws, Prisons, and Damaged People -- Speaking the Language of Evil -- The Unbearable Brutality of Being: Casual Cruelty in Prison and What This Tells Us About Who We Really Are -- Damage: A Logic of Evil -- PART III Evil and the Arts -- Jack Be Nimble, Jack Be Quick: Reflections on the Necessary Evils of 24 -- The Devil's Footprints: The Case of Dr. Emmenberger in Friedrich Dürrenmatt's Der Verdacht -- The Evil of Creation: The Destructive Aesthetic in the Figure of the Romantic Artist -- PART IV Evil, Despair, and Distorted Realities -- The Evils of [Same] Sex: The U.S. Gay Marriage Debate -- Inside Out and Outside In: Constructions of Evil in Contemporary British Drama -- Evil and Despairing Individuals: A Kierkegaardian Account -- PART V Individuals, Groups, and Evil Actions -- Relationality and Evil: Judging Bystanders -- Harm and Transgression in International Criminal Justice -- Individual and Collective Responsibility for Wrongs of the Past -- Notes on Contributors.