ABSTRACT
This highly original work provides a thought-provoking and valuable resource for researchers and academics with an interest in genocide, criminology, international organizations, and law and society. In her book, Caroline Fournet examines the law relating to genocide and explores the apparent failure of society to provide an adequate response to incidences of mass atrocity. The work casts a legal perspective on this social phenomenon to show that genocide fails to be appropriately remembered due to inherent defects in the law of genocide itself. The book thus connects the social response to the legal theory and practice, and trials in particular. Fournet's study illustrates the shortcomings of the Genocide Convention as a means of preventing and punishing genocide as well as its consequent failure to ensure the memory of this heinous crime.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |35 pages
Specificity and Uniqueness of Genocides
chapter |10 pages
The Crime of Genocide: ‘A Crime Without a Name'?
chapter |23 pages
Dehumanizing Intent and Destruction
part |72 pages
The Conventional Interpretation of the Specificity of the Crime of Genocide: The Restrictive Approach of the Genocide Convention
chapter |14 pages
The Conventional Approach to Genocidal Intent
chapter |7 pages
The Genocidal State
chapter |15 pages
The Conventional Omission of Genocide Denial
part |31 pages
Consequences of the Conventional Restrictive Approach to the Crime of Genocide: The Inapplicability of the Genocide Convention and its Impact on Collective Memory of the Crime