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Definition: genocide from Philip's Encyclopedia

Systematic and deliberate destruction of a racial, religious or ethnic group in times of war or peace. The Holocaust during World War 2 is an example of genocide.


Genocide

From Encyclopedia of Transnational Crime and Justice
For individual persons, in the context of criminal behavior, murder is considered the worst possible crime in those criminal justice systems that rank human life as having the most important value. In conjunction with this belief, genocide is probably the most heinous crime recognized by the civilized nations of the world, as it involves the mass murder of people for no legitimate reason. However, defining genocide is not simple. Indeed, there are many different definitions of genocide. One aspect almost all definitions of genocide have in common is that the genocidal efforts are usually directed against one or more specific, identifiable groups of people. The United Nations (UN) Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Genocide provides a definition of genocide as any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial, or religious group: Killing members of the group Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the…
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From World of Criminal Justice, Gale
Jewish prisoners being forced to dig their own...
Genocide was first defined in 1944 by an American scholar, Raphael Lemkin. The term, used in international criminal law, comes from the Greek word, genos , meaning race or tribe, and the Latin suffix, cide , meaning to kill. Generally, the word genocide is used to describe the systematic destruction…
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From Cambridge Dictionary of Sociology
While mass killing has been a perennial aspect of human societies , the term genocide is a relatively new concept. It was coined by the Polish jurist Raphael Lemkin in his Axis Rule in Occupied Europe (1944) as the legal term to describe the atrocities committed by the Nazis in World War II. …
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From World of Sociology, Gale
Six million Jews were exterminated during World...
Genocide is the systematic, intentional attempt by an authority to kill en masse the members of a socially defined category. The word “genocide” was coined by scholar and Polish refugee Raphaël Lemkin in 1944, to describe the Jewish Holocaust during World War II, as well as the mass murder of other…
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From The Penguin Dictionary of Sociology
The term was coined by the Polish jurist Raphael Lemkin during the implementation of Hitler's Final Solution (mass extermination of the Jewish people). The word is derived from the Greek genos (people or race) and the Latin caedere (to kill). A legal definition of genocide as acts intended to…
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From Encyclopedia of Diversity and Social Justice
The history of humanity has been littered with several devastating cases of genocide, an act that is rightfully described as “the supreme crime” ( Campbell, 2001 , p. 25). In the past five hundred years, examples of genocide have included the American Native genocide (death toll of one hundred…
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From Encyclopedia of Ethics
The term “genocide” was coined in 1944 by Rafael Lemkin most immediately in reaction to the Nazi “Final Solution” directed against the Jews, but it was also meant to identify that crime more generally as the annihilation or attempted annihilation of the members of a group ( genos ) solely because of…
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From The Encyclopedia of Criminology and Criminal Justice
Genocide, a term first coined to depict the horrors of the Holocaust during World War II, has again surfaced as the ultimate crime against society. It is the most serious charge leveled against aggressors being tried before the United Nations' ad hoc “International Criminal Tribunals” being held in…
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From Encyclopedia of American Foreign Policy
Possibly the gravest violation of international humanitarian law, genocide refers to grievous acts with the “intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group.” This definition, outlined in the 1948 United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of…
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From International Encyclopedia of Human Geography
© 2020 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Glossary Political economy The study of how economic production and consumption relates to government, law, and politics; in particular, state participation in the unequal accumulation and distribution of surplus value. Primitive accumulation In Marxist…
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From The Oxford Companion to International Relations
Despite the fact that genocide—that is, the use of deliberate measures taken with the intent to physically destroy a racial, ethnic, religious, or other similar group—has taken place throughout history, it was only recently that such atrocious practices became a matter of specific and explicit…
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