Chapter 12 Essay questions

  1. What are the key differences between atrocity crimes and ‘conventional’ crimes?
  2. What does criminology add to other disciplinary knowledge about mass violence and what does ‘conventional criminological toolkit’ miss in your opinion?
  3. How does a multi-level framework (macro, meso, micro) help to understand how or why atrocity crime occurs?
  4. In what episodes of atrocity crime has your State participated, or been complicit, and how has this involvement been acknowledged and addressed, if at all?
  5. What are the limitations of criminal prosecutions as a response to atrocity crime?
  6. What are the relative advantages and disadvantages of national and international criminal justice as legal responses to atrocity crime?
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