Thou Shall Not Kill...Your Brother: Victim-Perpetrator Cultural Closeness and Moral Disapproval of Polish Atrocities against Jews after the Holocaust

Journal of Social Issues

Volumn 69, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 54-73

  Kofta, Miroslaw ^a   Slawuta, Patrycja ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

^b NEW SCHOOL FOR SOCIAL RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRIME; CULTURE; MORALITY;

EID: 84874811066     PISSN: 00224537     EISSN: 15404560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/josi.12003     Document Type: Article

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