Beyond the banality of evil : criminology and genocide / Augustine Brannigan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brannigan, Augustine, 1949- author.

Series:

Clarendon studies in criminology.

Clarendon studies in criminology

Clarendon Studies in Criminology

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Genocide.

Criminology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (507 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Positioning itself within significant developments in genocide studies arising from misgivings about two noteworthy observers, Arendt and Milgram, this book asks what lies 'beyond the banality of evil'? And suggests the answer lies within criminology.Offering the author's reflections about how to interpret genocide as a crime, Beyond the Banality of Evil: Criminology and Genocide endeavours to understand how the theories of criminal motivation might shed light on these stunning events and make them comprehensible. While a great deal has been written about the shortcomings of the obedience para

Contents:

Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; List of Figures and Tables; List of Abbreviations; Introduction: From the Holocaust to Genocide; The Holocaust, Obedience, and the Banality of Evil; 1. Genocide and the Obedience Paradigm; Introduction; First Paradox: The Ordinary Agents of Extraordinary Murder; Second Paradox: The Conventionalization of Mass Murder; Third Paradox: The Dark Figure of Politically Motivated Mass Murder; Conclusion; 2. Three Paradoxes of Genocide in Criminology; Introduction; The Case for Liberal Legalism; International Law and Hegemonic Power

Lemkin's GenocideThe Genealogy of Genocide; Genocide: The Mea Culpa Convention; Naming Genocide: The Darfur Debate; The Politics of Genocide: A Typology; Conclusion; 3. Labelling Genocide: The Constitutive Problem; Genocide, Atrocities, and the Control Perspective; Self-Control in Historical Perspective: The Norbert Elias Thesis; Contemporary Control Theory; Conclusion; 4. Explaining Crime and Genocide: The Control Perspective; Introduction; Administrative Closure: the Sociogenesis of Hierarchical Dependencies; Racial Closure: The Cultivation of Division and Resentment

The Post-Colonial Legacy: The Culture of Complicity for Massacres (1959-1994)Conclusion: The Psychogenesis of Genocide; 5. The Psychogenesis and Sociogenesis of Genocide in Rwanda; Introduction: Complicity in Mass Murder; Level I: Attracting Perpetrators; Level II: The Experts; Level III: Realizing Genocide: The Role of Ideological Accomplices; Conclusion: The Legacy of Complicity; 6. Catalysts and Accomplices; Introduction: The Idea of Cosmopolitan Law; The Auschwitz Trials (1963-65); The Creation of the Recent Courts; Larger Legal Problems: Fact-Finding Without Facts; Conclusion

7. The Limits of the Criminal LawIntroduction: Crime Control Versus the Justice Model; Compensation and Reparation; The World Court Mediates Charges of Genocide; Last Word: A Civil Society Solution?; 8. The Civil Remedy for Genocide; Introduction: Telling the Truth; The Record of Tribunals and Commissions of Inquiry: Brazil and Argentina; Five Major Conditions Resulting in National TRCs; Two Views on Catharsis at the TRCs: South Africa Versus Sierra Leone; Conclusions; 9. Truth and Reconciliation Commissions: The Third Option; Introduction: The Banality of Evil; From Obedience to Duty

The Legal ResponsesRestraining the Sovereign; Rethinking Sovereignty; 10. Conclusion: Beyond the Banality of Evil; Bibliography; Index; Footnotes

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-176689-5

0-19-166213-5

0-19-166212-7

OCLC:

861538519