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Journal of International Criminal Justice Advance Access originally published online on August 14, 2007
Journal of International Criminal Justice 2007 5(4):917-939; doi:10.1093/jicj/mqm042
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Mass Murder

Discussing Criminological Perspectives

O. Sara Liwerant*

* Maître de conférences, Université Paris X-Nanterre. [ sara.liwerant{at}u-paris10.fr]


  Abstract

How do we think about mass murder? While the principle of responsibility provides an effective mechanism for the repression of mass murder (notably through Article 25 ICCSt.), analysis of the ‘acting out’ of mass murder by perpetrators requires a criminological perspective. Analysis of criminogenic processes, and of genocidal logic, helps us go some way in understanding how perpetrators ‘act out’ mass murder. Such an approach also leads us to identify a long silence in the social sciences: mass murder has become a legitimate field of social scientific study only recently; it also has the advantage of exposing the shortcomings of many concepts. This article deals with works focusing on ‘mass murder’ and suggests new research paths in the social sciences.


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