ABSTRACT
The relationship between the sociology of crime, law, and deviance and the study of human rights those basic political, civil, and social rights that are granted to all human beings irrespective of their citizenship is crucial but problematic. Tools from crime, law, and deviance scholarship are also suited to explain genocide. Crime, law, and deviance scholars tend to use broader concepts such as learning and culture, strain and anomie, social control and social disorganization. Historians are primarily concerned with past cases, while crime, law, and deviance scholars tend to focus on current-day phenomena. Crime, law, and deviance scholarship's deterrence research and new work on the collective-memory function of criminal trials can provide guidance. Much common crime, law, and deviance sociology should be examined through the human rights prism. Simultaneously, the response side of crime, law, and deviance scholarship must contribute to our understanding of the newly founded institutions of human rights law and international criminal justice.
