The Criminology of Genocide

The Death and Rape of Darfur

Bibliographic Data

ID9680558
AuthorsJ Hagan (0000-0002-4262-9822, University of Chicago, corresponding author), Wenona Rymond-Richmond, Wenona Rymond–richmond (American Bar Foundation), Patricia A Parker (0000-0003-1878-1186, University of Toronto), Patricia Parker
Year2005
Volume43
Issue3
Pages525-562
Publication date2005-08-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueCriminology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0011-1384 • E-ISSN: 1745-9125
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/j.0011-1348.2005.00016.x
OpenAlexW2140831493
LanguageEN
Citations received37
References cited26

Nearly 400,000 Africans may have been killed in racially motivated, lethally destructive, state supported, and militarily unjustified attacks on the farms and villages of the Darfur region of Sudan. Using victimization survey data collected from Darfurian survivors living in refugee camps in Chad, and drawing on conflict theory, we present evidence that the Sudanese government has directly supported violent killings and rapes in a lethally destructive exercise of power and control. In the language of the Geneva Genocide Convention, these attacks have inflicted on African tribal groups “conditions of life calculated to bring about their physical destruction in whole or in part.” The data include explicit evidence of the central mediating role played by racism in the attacks. There is little or no evidence from the surveys to support the claim of the Sudanese government that the attacks have been aimed at rebel groups as a counter-insurgency strategy. The Sudanese government claims are by this analysis not credible as self-defense arguments, but rather of the exercise of power and control through denial. Further forms of such denial are considered, including the slowness of modern American criminology to advance the study of genocide

Criminology · Denial · Genocide · Government (linguistics · Political science · Power (physics · Racism · Refugee · Sociology · State (computer science · Health and Conflict Studies · Law · Political Conflict and Governance · Psychology · Wildlife Conservation and Criminology Analyses

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