Advanced topics in law, crime, and deviance. Social underpinnings of legal/illegal behavior and of legal systems.
Class Notes:
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Class Description:
Despite the existence of a legal definition brought forward by the 1948 UN Genocide Convention, the concept of genocide is at times expanded by scholars, victim groups and activists to encompass different categories and methods of extreme violence, including state terror against political enemies, war crimes and other massive human right violations committed by state and non-state actors. In this course, we will address definitional and theoretical problems that have emerged in the study of large scale political violence and its repercussions over the last decades. We will a) trace the history of the concept of genocide, the UN Convention and its connection to the Holocaust and the post-World War II order b) examine the work of classic and recent authors who discuss Cases examined in the course include the Holocaust, colonial genocide in North America, the Armenian genocide, State terror in Spain and in the Southern Cone and Stalinist crimes in Eastern Europe.
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Despite the existence of a legal definition brought forward by the 1948 UN Genocide Convention, the concept of genocide is at times expanded by scholars, victim groups and activists to encompass different categories and methods of extreme violence, including state terror against political enemies, war crimes and other massive human right violations committed by state and non-state actors. In this course, we will address definitional and theoretical problems that have emerged in the study of large scale political violence and its repercussions over the last decades. We will a) trace the history of the concept of genocide, the UN Convention and its connection to the Holocaust and the post-World War II order b) examine the work of classic and recent authors who discuss the Cases analyzed in the course include the Holocaust, colonial genocides in North America, the Armenian genocide, State terror in Spain and in the Southern Cone and Stalinist crimes in Eastern Europe.