Genocide: A Normative Account

by Larry May

Book Overview

In this study, Larry May examines the normative and conceptual problems concerning the crime of genocide. Genocide arises out of the worst of horrors. Legally, however, the unique character of genocide is reduced to a technical requirement, that the perpetrator's act manifest an intention to destroy a protected group. From this definition, many puzzles arise. How are groups to be identified and why are only four groups subject to genocide? What is...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521122961
• ISBN13: 9780521122962
• Release Date: February 2010
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 9.0" x 6.0"