Extremely Violent Societies: Mass Violence in the Twentieth-Century World is a 2010 book by historian Christian Gerlach in which he introduces the concept of "extremely violent society", in which "various population groups become victims of massive physical violence, in which, acting together with the organs of the state, diverse social groups participate for a multitude of reasons".[1] Gerlach previously hypothesized this concept in a 2006 article in Journal of Genocide Research, "Extremely violent societies: an alternative to the concept of genocide".[2][3]
References
edit- ^ Raben, Remco (2012). "On genocide and mass violence in colonial Indonesia". Journal of Genocide Research. 14 (3–4): 485–502. doi:10.1080/14623528.2012.719673. S2CID 72658247.
- ^ Gerlach, Christian (2006). "Extremely violent societies: an alternative to the concept of genocide". Journal of Genocide Research. 8 (4): 455–471. doi:10.1080/14623520601056299. S2CID 72928185.
- ^ Karstedt, Susanne (2012). "Contextualizing mass atrocity crimes: The dynamics of 'extremely violent societies'". European Journal of Criminology. 9 (5): 499–513. doi:10.1177/1477370812454646. S2CID 145801426.