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Darfur and the Crime of Genocide

In 2004, the State Department gathered more than a thousand interviews from refugees in Chad that substantiated Colin Powell's UN and congressional testimonies about the Darfur genocide. The survey cost nearly a million dollars to conduct, and yet it languished in the archives as the killing continued, claiming hundreds of thousands of murder and rape victims and restricting several million survivors to camps. This book for the first time fully examines that survey and its heartbreaking accounts. It documents the Sudanese government's enlistment of Arab Janjaweed militias in destroying Black African communities. The central questions are these: Why is the United States so ambivalent about genocide? Why do so many scholars deemphasize racial aspects of genocide? How can the science of criminology advance understanding and protection against genocide? This book gives a vivid firsthand account and voice to the survivors of genocide in Darfur.

John Hagan is John D. MacArthur Professor of Sociology and Law at Northwestern University and Co-Director of the Center on Law and Globalization at the American Bar Foundation. He served as president of the American Society of Criminology and received its Edwin Sutherland and Michael J. Hindelang awards. He received the C. Wright Mills Award for Mean Streets: Youth Crime and Homelessness (with Bill McCarthy; Cambridge University Press, 1997) and a Guggenheim Fellowship and the Albert J. Reiss Award for Northern Passage: American Vietnam War Resisters in Canada (2001). He is author most recently of Justice in the Balkans (2003) and co-author of several articles on the Darfur genocide published in the American Sociological Review, Criminology, Annual Review of Sociology, and Science.

Wenona Rymond-Richmond is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She was a research assistant at the American Bar Foundation and a pre-doctoral Fellow with the National Consortium on Violence Research. Publications include “Transforming Communities: Formal and Informal Mechanisms of Social Control” in The Many Colors of Crime (editors Ruth Peterson, Lauren Krivo, and John Hagan), and co-authored articles about the Darfur genocide published in Criminology, American Sociological Review, and Ohio State Journal of Criminal Law.

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John Hagan

Northwestern University

Wenona Rymond-Richmond

University of Massachusetts Amherst

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Hagan, John, 1946–
Darfur and the crime of genocide / John Hagan, Wenona Rymond-Richmond.
 p. cm. – (Cambridge studies in law and society)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-0-521-51567-2 (hardback)
1. Genocide. 2. Crimes against humanity. 3. Human rights. I. Rymond-Richmond,
Wenona, 1972– II. Title. III. Series.
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