Group Offending in Mass Atrocities: Proposing a Group Violence Strategies Model for International Crimes

• Main Author: Regina Elisabeth Rauxloh
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oñati International Institute for the Sociology of Law 2016-12-01
• Series: Oñati Socio-Legal Series
• Subjects: Genocide; mass atrocities; group offending; neutralisation techniques; emotional energy dominance; patterns of violence; group violence strategies models; Genocidio; atrocidades en masa; crìmenes en grupo; técnicas de neutralización; dominio de energÃ-a
• Online Access: http://opo.iisj.net/index.php/osls/article/view/756

<p>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.</p> <hr /><p>La mayor parte de las investigaciones sobre atrocidades en masa, especialmente genocidio, se desarrollan a nivel macro, analizando c&oacute;mo se instiga, planea y orquestra la violencia de masas a nivel de estado. Este art&iacute;culo, sin embargo, sugiere que es necesaria una mayor investigaci&oacute;n del criminal individual, para complementar la comprensi&oacute;n de las atrocidades en masa. As&iacute;, se desarrolla un nuevo modelo, el modelo de estrategias de violencia en grupo. Este modelo combina diversos modelos criminol&oacute;gicos tradicionales de violencia en grupo y propone tres etapas de an&aacute;lisis, mirando al agresor individual, las acciones dentro del grupo criminal y las acciones entre el grupo criminal y el grupo de v&iacute;ctimas, para entender mejor este fen&oacute;meno por el que personas corrientes cometen cr&iacute;menes atroces.</p> <p><strong>DOWNLOAD THIS PAPER FROM SSRN</strong>: <a href="https://ssrn.com/abstract=2875712" target="_blank">https://ssrn.com/abstract=2875712</a></p>