Necrocriminology - Case Studies in Mass Violence

This book explores the ways in which diverse societies around the world do and do not come to terms with a legacy of mass violence through their relationship with the dead. It develops the field of necrocriminology: the criminology of violent death.

List of contents

1. A short history of lethal mass violence, 2. The pains of Antigone: Criminology, the corpse, and conflict, 3. Towards a necrocriminology of mass violence, 4. Corpses of Mass Violence and Genocide: The programme; the case studies, 5. Argentina: Modes of denying and acknowledging absent bodies, 6. Bosnia: Blood, bones, and burial as counter-discourse, 7. Spain: Graves and the generations after defeat, 8. Latvia: Representing complex atrocity in a divided society, 9. Poland: Human remains, ethics and industry in death camp commemoration, 10. The criminological lives of dead bodies

Summary

This book explores the ways in which diverse societies around the world do and do not come to terms with a legacy of mass violence through their relationship with the dead. It develops the field of necrocriminology: the criminology of violent death.

Product details

• Authors: Shute, Jon Shute, Jon (University of Manchester Shute
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 30.06.2018, delayed
• EAN: 9781138222717
• ISBN: 978-1-138-22271-7
• No. of pages: 272
• Series: Victims, Culture and Society; Victims, Culture and Society
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work; Social sciences, law, business > Law > Criminal law, criminal procedural law, criminology