The Armenian Genocide: Developing an Interdisciplinary Perspective for Criminology.

• In Event: New Knowledge, Perspectives, and Approaches of Atrocity Crimes Research (ECACTJ Working Group)

Abstract

Criminological theory predominantly interprets the Armenian Genocide from a victimological perspective. This paper argues that victimology is ultimately constricting as a foundation for criminology’s contribution to the genocide’s interdisciplinary context of academic research. By applying Michalowski’s definitional variants of state crime, the paper facilitates an exploration of the work of the genocide's prominent historians, legal academics, political scientists and sociologists. The paper concludes by offering research findings which are both significant and rooted in a distinctively criminological framework.

Author

• David Straw, University of Westminster