Duty to respond : mass crime, denial, and collective responsibility / Nenad Dimitrijevic.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dimitrijević, Nenad.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Collective behavior--Moral and ethical aspects.

Collective behavior.

Group identity--Moral and ethical aspects.

Group identity.

Crimes against humanity--Moral and ethical aspects.

Crimes against humanity.

Social ethics.

Transitional justice.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (226 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Budapest ; New York : Central European University Press, c2011.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

The subject of the book is responsibility for collective crime. Collective crime is an act committed by a significant number of the members of a group, in the name of all members of that group, with the support of the majority of group members, and against individuals targeted on the basis of their belonging to a different group.The central claim is that all members of the group in whose name collective crime is committed share responsibility for it. This book's special interest is with analytical and normative defense of arguments that purport to explain reasons for, and the character of, responsibility of decent people. Those who did not intend, support, or committed wrong, are still accountable in a non-vicarious manner. The basis of their responsibility is the crime-specific relationship between group identity and personal identity.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Chapter One: Criminal Regime, its Subjects, and Collective Crime

Chapter Two: Politics of Silence and Denial

Chapter Three: Culture, Knowledge, and Collective Crime: Reading Relativism

Chapter Four: Moral Responsibility for Collective Crime

bibliography

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-003-71926-0

1-283-25667-3

9781003719267

OCLC:

922998013