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Alex Alvarez earned his Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of New Hampshire in 1991 and is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Criminal Justice at Northern Arizona University. His primary areas of study have focused on minorities, crime, and criminal justice, as well as on collective and interpersonal violence. He has published on Native Americans, Latinos, and African Americans, fear of crime, sentencing, justifiable and criminal homicide, and genocide. He is currently writing a book on patterns of American murder.
List of contents
Preliminary Table of Contents:
Introduction
Chapter 1. The Age of Genocide
Chapter 2. A Crime By Any Other Name
Chapter 3. Deadly Regimes
Chapter 4. Lethal Cogs
Chapter 5. Accommodating Genocide
Chapter 6. Confronting Genocide
About the author
Alex Alvarez earned his Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of New Hampshire in 1991 and is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Criminal Justice at Northern Arizona University. His primary areas of study have focused on minorities, crime, and criminal justice, as well as on collective and interpersonal violence. He has published on Native Americans, Latinos, and African Americans, fear of crime, sentencing, justifiable and criminal homicide, and genocide. He is currently writing a book on patterns of American murder.
Summary
A comparative and interdisciplinary analysis of genocide in the twentieth century. Reviewing the role of the state in perpetrating genocide with the rationale that genocide is invariably created and carried out by governments and their agents, this book explores the organisational level.
