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Group offending in mass atrocities - proposing a group violence strategies model for international crimes

Group offending in mass atrocities - proposing a group violence strategies model for international crimes
Group offending in mass atrocities - proposing a group violence strategies model for international crimes
Most research in mass atrocities, especially genocide, is conducted at the macro level exploring how mass violence is instigated, planned and orchestrated at the level of the state. This paper on the other hand suggests that more research of the individual perpetrator is needed to complement the understanding of mass atrocities. The author develops therefore a new model, the group violence strategies model. This model combines various traditional criminological models of group offending and proposes a three stage analysis, looking at the individual aggressor, the actions within the offender group and the actions between offender group and victim group to understand better the phenomenon that ordinary people commit unspeakable crimes.

Spanish Abstract: La mayor parte de las investigaciones sobre atrocidades en masa, especialmente genocidio, se desarrollan a nivel macro, analizando cómo se instiga, planea y orquestra la violencia de masas a nivel de estado. Este artículo, sin embargo, sugiere que es necesaria una mayor investigación del criminal individual, para complementar la comprensión de las atrocidades en masa. Así, se desarrolla un nuevo modelo, el modelo de estrategias de violencia en grupo. Este modelo combina diversos modelos criminológicos tradicionales de violencia en grupo y propone tres etapas de análisis, mirando al agresor individual, las acciones dentro del grupo criminal y las acciones entre el grupo criminal y el grupo de víctimas, para entender mejor este fenómeno por el que personas corrientes cometen crímenes atroces.
2079-5971
1016-1031
Rauxloh, Regina
8ce77860-d780-4c02-9d0d-e65f0fd6e988
Rauxloh, Regina
8ce77860-d780-4c02-9d0d-e65f0fd6e988

Rauxloh, Regina (2016) Group offending in mass atrocities - proposing a group violence strategies model for international crimes. Oñati Socio-Legal Series, 6 (4), 1016-1031.

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Most research in mass atrocities, especially genocide, is conducted at the macro level exploring how mass violence is instigated, planned and orchestrated at the level of the state. This paper on the other hand suggests that more research of the individual perpetrator is needed to complement the understanding of mass atrocities. The author develops therefore a new model, the group violence strategies model. This model combines various traditional criminological models of group offending and proposes a three stage analysis, looking at the individual aggressor, the actions within the offender group and the actions between offender group and victim group to understand better the phenomenon that ordinary people commit unspeakable crimes.

Spanish Abstract: La mayor parte de las investigaciones sobre atrocidades en masa, especialmente genocidio, se desarrollan a nivel macro, analizando cómo se instiga, planea y orquestra la violencia de masas a nivel de estado. Este artículo, sin embargo, sugiere que es necesaria una mayor investigación del criminal individual, para complementar la comprensión de las atrocidades en masa. Así, se desarrolla un nuevo modelo, el modelo de estrategias de violencia en grupo. Este modelo combina diversos modelos criminológicos tradicionales de violencia en grupo y propone tres etapas de análisis, mirando al agresor individual, las acciones dentro del grupo criminal y las acciones entre el grupo criminal y el grupo de víctimas, para entender mejor este fenómeno por el que personas corrientes cometen crímenes atroces.

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Accepted/In Press date: 29 June 2016
e-pub ahead of print date: 25 November 2016
Published date: December 2016
Organisations: Southampton Law School

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Local EPrints ID: 400669
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/400669
ISSN: 2079-5971
PURE UUID: 80cd4199-afe3-45f8-a175-86027112a0c1
ORCID for Regina Rauxloh: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0003-2711-1424

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Date deposited: 23 Sep 2016 10:41
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Author: Regina Rauxloh ORCID iD

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