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Summary of Unit 5 (Genocide)
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  • KRM 220 (CRIMINOLOGY)
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In-depth summary of Unit 5 (required for KRM exam Section B). Summary includes: 1. Lecture Notes 2. Unit Notes 3. Prescribed reading All important points are clearly highlighted in the summary. No unnecessary information has been added.

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  • November 15, 2022
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  • 2022/2023
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Subjects

  • genocide
  • elements of genocide
  • ethnic cleansing
  • degrees of genocide
  • contributing factors
  • ideological vs pragmatic genocide

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  • KRM 220 (CRIMINOLOGY)
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Genocide means any of the
following acts committed with
intent to destroy, in whole or in Killing members of a group
part, a national, ethnical, racial
or religious group: Causing serious bodily harm/ mental harm to members of a group
Deliberately inflicting on the group’s conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical
destruction in whole or in part thereof
Imposing measures intended to prevent births w/in group

Forcibly transferring children of a group to another group.
Post WW11 trials combined physical and cultural destruction
United Nations into the definition of genocide.
(UN) definition: Modern international courts and tribunals’ focus has limited
Genocide & ‘destruction’ to physical or biological destruction of the group
ethnic
cleansing in Legal application of genocide remains confined to physical or
international biological destruction
humanitarian Key definitional Dissolution of [the group’s] unit and/or collective identity’ was
law Destroy also part of genocide
elements of
genocide
Challenge of determining what constitutes a ‘part’ of a group
In part Part must be a substantial part of that group

Quantitative assessment
Groups Significant section of the group
National, ethnical, racial and religious

Limit targeted groups to ‘stable and permanent’ groups

Collection of people w/ a particular group identity

Status of a group subjectively determined
Definitions of each group category


 Conspiracy, public incitement and attempt to commit genocide as well as complicity in genocide are equally punishable acts.
 If state commits or contributes to genocide – international community only body able to intervene.
 Convention impotent to convict governments if they did not actively perpetrate the crime.
 Politicide
 Democide

Ethnic cleansing
Purposeful policy designed by one ethnic or religious group to remove by violent and terror-inspiring means the civilian population of
another ethnic or religious group from certain geographic areas.
It is carried out in the name of misguided nationalism, historic grievances and a powerful driving force for revenge.
Ethnic cleansing has been carried out through murder, torture, arbitrary arrest, detention, extrajudicial executions, rape, etc.

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