Duty to Respond

Mass Crime, Denial, and Collective Responsibility

Nenad Dimitrijevic

• Publisher: Central European University Press
• Year: 2011
• Print ISBN: 9786155053078
• eBook ISBN: 9789633863435
• Topic: Philosophy
• Subtopic: Political Philosophy

The subject of the book is responsibility for collective crime. Collective crime is an act committed by a significant number of the members of a group, in the name of all members of that group, with the support of the majority of group members, and against individuals targeted on the basis of their belonging to a different group.The central claim is that all members of the group in whose name collective crime is committed share responsibility for it. This book's special interest is with analytical and normative defense of arguments that purport to explain reasons for, and the character of, responsibility of decent people. Those who did not intend, support, or committed wrong, are still accountable in a non-vicarious manner. The basis of their responsibility is the crime-specific relationship between group identity and personal identity.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title page
• Copyright page
• Table of Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Chapter One: Criminal Regime, its Subjects, and Collective Crime
• Chapter Two: Politics of Silence and Denial
• Chapter Three: Culture, Knowledge, and Collective Crime: Reading Relativism
• Chapter Four: Moral Responsibility for Collective Crime
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Conceptualizing Moral Responsibility
• 3 Social Groups
• 4 Collective Moral Responsibility
• 5 Collective Moral Responsibility beyond Causality and Blame
• Bibliography
• Index
• back cover