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34 Crime L. & Soc. Change 1 (2000)

handle is hein.journals/crmlsc34 and id is 1 raw text is: LA Crime, Law & Social Change 34: 1-3, 2000. 1 Introduction During the spring semester of my freshman year at the University of Southern California, I took a course entitled The Holocaust as part of my general education program. Until that spring my knowledge of the subject was limited to my readings of the memoirs of Holocaust victims Anne Frank and Corrie ten Boom (the latter attended my church when I was a child). This limited knowledge - and my passion for the subject - would grow immensely under the tutelage of my Holocaust professor, Rabbi David Ellenson. Rabbi Ellenson taught me that the Holocaust must be viewed from a mul- tidisciplinary scholarly perspective because no single academic discipline could ever provide all of the answers, let alone ask all of the questions, needed to understand such a complex event. Rabbi Ellenson also taught me that there were often times competing arguments within individual academic disciplines studying the Holocaust, that the subject engendered debate and discussion within and between fields as diverse as philosophy, sociology, theology and history. When the course ended, I made a promise to Rabbi Ellenson that I would not forget the lessons that I learned in his course and that one day I would make my own contributions to keeping the memory of those who perished as a result of hate alive. This special issue of Crime, Law and Social Change dedicated to Criminology and Genocide is my first professional step towards keeping this promise. This project began two years ago after I met my co-editors, Ed Day and Margaret Vandiver, while serving as the chair of a panel dedicated to Crimin- ology and Human Rights: Comparative and International Perspectives at the 1998 annual meeting of the American Society of Criminology. For the first time in my young professional career, I met two criminologists who actively shared my concern that the discipline of criminology was standing silent on the crime-of-all-crimes, genocide.1 t Article II of the United Nations Convention of 1948 provides the following definition of genocide: Genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical or religious group, as such: a) killing members of the group; b) causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; c) deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; d) imposing measures intending to prevent births within the group; e) forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.

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