The Crime of All Crimes: Toward a Criminology of Genocide

by Nicole Rafter

Book Overview

Cambodia. Rwanda. Armenia. Nazi Germany. History remembers these places as the sites of unspeakable crimes against humanity, and indisputably, of genocide. Yet, throughout the twentieth century, the world has seen many instances of violence committed by states against certain groups within their borders--from the colonial ethnic cleansing the Germans committed against the Herero tribe in Africa, to the Katyn Forest Massacre, in which the Soviets...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1479859486
• ISBN13: 9781479859481
• Release Date: March 2016
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.44 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.2" x 9.1"