Duty to Respond

Mass Crime, Denial, and Collective Responsibility
Erscheinungsjahr 2011
ISBN: 978-615-5053-07-8
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 226 Seiten, Format (B × H): 163 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 476 g

The subject of the book is responsibility for collective crime. Collective crime is an act committed by a significant number of the members of a group, in the name of all members of that group, with the support of the majority of group members, and against individuals targeted on the basis of their belonging to a different group.The central claim is that all members of the group in whose name collective crime is committed share responsibility for it. This book's special interest is with analytical and normative defense of arguments that purport to explain reasons for, and the character of, responsibility of decent people. Those who did not intend, support, or committed wrong, are still accountable in a non-vicarious manner. The basis of their responsibility is the crime-specific relationship between group identity and personal identity.

Zielgruppe

Academic

Autoren/Hrsg.

Dimitrijevic, Nenad

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ethik, Moralphilosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments, Introduction, Chapter 1 Criminal Regime, its Subjects, and Collective Crime Introduction, Chapter Two Politics of Silence and Denial, Chapter Three Culture, Knowledge, and Collective Crime: Reading Relativism, Chapter 4 Moral Responsibility for Collective Crime, List of References

Über Autor(innen)

Nenad Dimitrijevic teaches political theory at Central European University, Budapest, Hungary. He taught at Law School, University of Novi Sad, Yugoslavia before joining the faculty at CEU. He has published on a variety of topics in the fields of constitutional theory, moral responsibility, and transitional justice.