ABSTRACT
It took criminology a long time to address some of its most important topics, for example, white-collar crime. It took criminology even longer to confront its more deadly neglected topics, namely genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity. Criminologists will first have to engage more fully and embrace the topic of genocide as also being among its own subject areas to develop. As criminologists venture forth into the territories of mass atrocity, they incur the inevitable scholarly risks of traveling to new intellectual locations. The significance in international criminal law of such verbalizations as evidence of genocidal intent is recognized in the Rwandan Akayesu (United Nations, 1998) and Bosnian Jelisi (United Nations, 1999) cases. Criminology should not wait to confront genocide in the full depth and breadth of all its scholarly, legal, and moral dimensions.
