Duty to Respond: Mass Crime, Denial, and Collective Responsibility

Nenad Dimitrijevic

Published by Central European University Press 2011

Duty to Respond

Mass Crime, Denial, and Collective Responsibility

Nenad Dimitrijevic

https://doi.org/10.1515/9789633863435

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About this book

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.

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Dimitrijevic Nenad :

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.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Table of Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Chapter One: Criminal Regime, its Subjects, and Collective Crime Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	13
Chapter Two: Politics of Silence and Denial Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	43
Chapter Three: Culture, Knowledge, and Collective Crime: Reading Relativism Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	85
Chapter Four: Moral Responsibility for Collective Crime Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	133
ibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	197
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	207

Language: English
Publisher: Central European University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 226
Keywords: Ethics; Political culture; Political persecution; Political philosophy

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Published: January 10, 2011
ISBN: 9789633863435