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Overview
- Summary
- "Positioning itself within significant developments in genocide studies arising from misgivings about two noteworthy observers, Arendt and Milgram, this book asks what lies 'beyond the banality of evil'? And suggests the answer lies within criminology.Offering the author's reflections about how to interpret genocide as a crime, Beyond the Banality of Evil: Criminology and Genocide endeavours to understand how the theories of criminal motivation might shed light on these stunning events and make them comprehensible..." Book cover.
- Series
- Clarendon studies in criminology
Clarendon studies in criminology. - Format
- Book
- Published
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013
- Edition
- First edition
- Contents
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Genocide and the obedience paradigm
Three paradoxes of genocide in criminology
Labelling genocide : the constitutive problem
Explaining crime and genocide : the control perspective
Psychogenesis and sociogenesis of genocide in Rwanda
Catalysts and accomplices
Limits of the criminal law
Civil remedy for genocide
Truth and reconciliation commissions : the third option
Conclusion: Beyond the banality of evil. - Notes
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 222-243) and index.
Genocide and the obedience paradigm -- Three paradoxes of genocide in criminology -- Labelling genocide : the constitutive problem -- Explaining crime and genocide : the control perspective -- Psychogenesis and sociogenesis of genocide in Rwanda -- Catalysts and accomplices -- Limits of the criminal law -- Civil remedy for genocide -- Truth and reconciliation commissions : the third option -- Conclusion: Beyond the banality of evil.
Physical Details
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 0199674620
9780199674626 - Physical Description
- xxiv, 261 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Keywords & Subjects
- Subjects
- Genocide. Criminology.
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