Can Genocide Studies and Criminology Enrich Each Other?

What might Inhibit Communication?

First, criminological vocabulary differs substantially from that used by genocide scholars. While the latter discuss phenomena such as totalitarian and revolutionary regimes, war and social instability, racist and anti-Semitic ideologies, criminologists use concepts such as learning and culture, strain and anomie, social control and social disorganization. And yet, where one school of criminology addresses culture, for example, historians are concerned with specific cultural expressions such as anti-Semitism; and where other criminologists discuss social disorganization or anomie, historians explore the role ...