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Unconscionable Crimes: How Norms Explain And Constrain Mass Atrocities, Paul Morrow
Unconscionable Crimes: How Norms Explain And Constrain Mass Atrocities, Paul Morrow
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This book is the first general theory of the influence of norms—moral, legal and social—on genocide and mass atrocity.
How can we explain—and prevent—such large-scale atrocities as the Holocaust? In Unconscionable Crimes, Paul Morrow presents the first general theory of the influence of norms on genocide and mass atrocity. After offering a clear overview of norms and norm transformation rooted in recent work in moral and political philosophy, Morrow examines numerous twentieth-century cases of mass atrocity, drawing on documentary and testimonial sources to illustrate the influence of norms before, during, and after such crimes.
Morrow considers such key explanatory pathways …