Meanings
nounbystandership (uncountable)
- uncountableThe role of being a bystander, not taking any active part.
For the most part, neither superiors nor fellow guards took action when they saw the abuse. Their passive bystandership allowed the evolution of increasing abuse.
2011, Ervin Staub, Overcoming Evil: Genocide, Violent Conflict, and Terrorism, Oxford Universtiy Press (2013) (hardcover) (paperback), part I, chapter 7, 198
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