Table of Contents
List of Illustrations ix
Preface xi
1 Genocide, Criminology, and Evolution of the "Crime of Crimes": The Katyn Forest Genocide, 1940 1
2 What Kind of a Crime Is Genocide?: Capsule Summaries of Eight Genocides 24
3 The Big Picture: The Macro Dynamics of Genocide: The Herero Genocide, 1904-1907 54
4 The Emotional Dynamics of Genocide: Meso-Level Analyses: The Indonesian Genocide, 1965-1966 80
5 Extermination Up Close and Personal: Genocide on the Micro Level: The Cambodian Genocide, 1975-1979 106
6 Mobilization for Destruction: The Armenian Genocide, 1915-1923 The Nazi Genocide of the Disabled, 1939-1945 131
7 Gender and Genocide: The Rwandan Genocide, 1994 152
8 How Do Genocides End? Do They End?: The Guatemalan Genocide, 1981-1983 181
9 Treating Genocide as a Crime 202
Appendix A Twentieth-Century Genocides 229
Appendix B Case-Study Questions 235
Notes 239
References 267
Index 291
About the Author 299