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

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  • Regina Elisabeth Rauxloh University of Southampton

Keywords:

Genocide, mass atrocities, group offending, neutralisation techniques, emotional energy dominance, patterns of violence, group violence strategies models, Genocidio, atrocidades en masa, crímenes en grupo, técnicas de neutralización, dominio de energía

Abstract

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.

La mayor parte de las investigaciones sobre atrocidades en masa, especialmente genocidio, se desarrollan a nivel macro, analizando cómo se instiga, planea y orquestra la violencia de masas a nivel de estado. Este artículo, sin embargo, sugiere que es necesaria una mayor investigación del criminal individual, para complementar la comprensión de las atrocidades en masa. Así, se desarrolla un nuevo modelo, el modelo de estrategias de violencia en grupo. Este modelo combina diversos modelos criminológicos tradicionales de violencia en grupo y propone tres etapas de análisis, mirando al agresor individual, las acciones dentro del grupo criminal y las acciones entre el grupo criminal y el grupo de víctimas, para entender mejor este fenómeno por el que personas corrientes cometen crímenes atroces.

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Author Biography

Regina Elisabeth Rauxloh, University of Southampton

Dr Regina E Rauxloh is Associate Professor within Southampton Law School at the University of Southampton. Regina studied first law in Germany (Erstes Juristisches Staatsexamen) and received her LL.M. (in Law and Development) and her PhD from the University of Warwick, UK. Southampton Law School Building 4 University of Southampton Highfield. Southampton SO17 1BJ UK. R.E.Rauxloh@soton.ac.uk

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Published

20-04-2016

How to Cite

Rauxloh, R. E. (2016) “Group Offending in Mass Atrocities: Proposing a Group Violence Strategies Model for International Crimes”, Oñati Socio-Legal Series, 6(4), pp. 1016–1031. Available at: https://opo.iisj.net/index.php/osls/article/view/756 (Accessed: 19 April 2024).