Beyond the Banality of Evil Criminology and Genocide 1st Edition by Augustine Brannigan ISBN 978-0199674626 0199674620
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ISBN 10: 0199674620
ISBN 13: 978-0199674626
Author: Augustine Brannigan
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 endeavors 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 paradigm and ‘desk murderers’ when discussing the Holocaust, little has been said of what results when investigations are taken beyond these limitations. Through examination and analysis of the literature surrounding genocide studies, Brannigan frames the events within a general theoretical approach to crime before applying his own revised model, specifically to Rwanda and drawn from field-work in 2004 and 2005. This provides a new and compelling account of the dynamics of the 1994 genocide and its distinctive attributes of speed, popularity, totality and emotional indifference.
With a focus on the disarticulation of personal culpability among ordinary perpetrators, Beyond the Banality of Evil questions the effectiveness of individual-level guilt imputation in these politically based, collectively orchestrated crimes, and raises doubts about the utility of criminal indictments that have evolved in the context of models of individual misconduct.
Table of contents:
1. Genocide and the Obedience Paradigm
Introduction: From the Holocaust to Genocide
The Holocaust, Obedience, and the Banality of Evil
2. Three Paradoxes of Genocide in Criminology
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
3. Labelling Genocide: The Constitutive Problem
Introduction
The Case for Liberal Legalism
International Law and Hegemonic Power
Lemkin’s Genocide
The Genealogy of Genocide
Genocide: The Mea Culpa Convention
Naming Genocide: The Darfur Debate
The Politics of Genocide: A Typology
Conclusion
4. Explaining Crime and Genocide: The Control Perspective
Genocide, Atrocities, and the Control Perspective
Self-Control in Historical Perspective: The Norbert Elias Thesis
Contemporary Control Theory
Conclusion
5. The Psychogenesis and Sociogenesis of Genocide in Rwanda
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
6. Catalysts and Accomplices
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
7. The Limits of the Criminal Law
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
8. The Civil Remedy for Genocide
Introduction: Crime Control Versus the Justice Model
Compensation and Reparation
The World Court Mediates Charges of Genocide
Last Word: A Civil Society Solution?
9. Truth and Reconciliation Commissions: The Third Option
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
10. Conclusion: Beyond the Banality of Evil
Introduction: The Banality of Evil From Obedience to Duty
The Legal Responses
Restraining the Sovereign
Rethinking Sovereignty
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