Beyond the Banality of Evil - Criminology and Genocide

Offering the author's reflections on how to interpret genocide as a crime, this book endeavours to understand how the theories of criminal motivation might shed light on these stunning events and make them comprehensible, including a new and compelling account of the dynamics of the 1994 Rwanda genocide.

About the author

Professor Augustine Brannigan is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Calgary. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Toronto in 1978 and has written extensively on criminological theory and crime control in Canada. His research interests have extended to the patterns of victimization of non-combatants in contexts of war and civil war, terrorism and genocide.

Summary

Offering the author's reflections on how to interpret genocide as a crime, this book endeavours to understand how the theories of criminal motivation might shed light on these stunning events and make them comprehensible, including a new and compelling account of the dynamics of the 1994 Rwanda genocide.

Additional text

A widely researched and carefully argued intervention in genocide from the perspective of criminology, Augstine Brannigan's Beyond the Banality of Evil is an important book, not least because of the intersection between these two fields seems so obviously illuminating yet is so little investigated.

Product details

• Authors: Augustine Brannigan, Augustine (Emeritus Professor of Sociol Brannigan
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 22.08.2013
• EAN: 9780199674626
• ISBN: 978-0-19-967462-6
• No. of pages: 286
• Series: Clarendon Studies in Criminology; Clarendon Studies in Criminolo; Clarendon Studies in Criminology; Clarendon Studies in Criminolo
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law