RT Article
T1 Criminology and genocide studies: notes on what might have been and what still could be
JF Crime, law and social change
VO 34
IS 1
SP 43
OP 59
A1 Day, L. Edward
A1 Vandiver, Margaret
A2 Vandiver, Margaret
LA English
YR 2000
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1882992024
AB Scholars of genocide and mass killings have proposed several theories explaining how the behaviors of governments, political leaders, and ordinary citizens contribute to extreme violence. Many of the explanatory constructs developed in these theories bear a striking resemblance to core concepts of criminology or could be readily integrated with criminological ideas. As examples, this paper briefly describes the ideas of Herbert Kelman, Daniel Jonah Goldhagen, and R.J. Rummel from the perspective of criminology and examines their applicabilitythe recent genocides in Bosnia and Rwanda. The conclusion is that criminology, by largely ignoring the crime of genocide, has missed opportunities to both contribute to the field of genocide studies and to improve the specification of its own ideas.
K1 Core Concept
K1 International Relation
K1 Ordinary Citizen
K1 Paper Briefly
K1 Political Leader
DO 10.1023/A:1008334705016