War crimes : causes, excuses, and blame / Matthew Talbert and Jessica Wolfendale.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Talbert, Matthew, author.

Wolfendale, Jessica, 1973- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

War and crime.

War crimes.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 168 pages)

Other Title:

Causes, excuses, and blame

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2019

Summary:

In 2005, US Marines killed 24 unarmed Iraqi civilians in the town of Haditha. How should we assess the perpetrators of this and other war crimes? Is it unfair to blame the Marines because they were subject to situational pressures such as combat stress? Or should they be held responsible for their actions, since they intentionally chose to kill civilians? In this text, we take up these questions and propose a provocative theory of the causes of war crimes and the responsibility of perpetrators.

Contents:

1. Explaining behavior: the person or the situation?

2. Situationism and war crimes

3. A dispositional account of war crimes

4. Excusing perpetrators

5. Blaming perpetrators

6. Hard cases

7. Punishing and preventing war crimes.

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2018.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version:

ISBN:

0-19-067589-6

0-19-067590-X

0-19-067588-8