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In The Geometry of Genocide, Bradley Campbell argues that genocide is best understood not as deviant behavior but as social control?a response to perceived deviant behavior on the part of victims. Using Donald Black’s method of pure sociology, Campbell considers genocide in relation to three features of social life: diversity, inequality, and intimacy. Campbell applies his approach to five cases to attempt to explain an array of factors, including why genocide occurs and who participates. By situating genocide among these broader phenomena, The Geometry of Genocide provides a novel and compelling explanation of genocide, while furthering our understanding of why humans have conflicts and why they respond to conflict as they do.

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This book is insightful and duly provocative. It discusses an important topic, and it does so from a perspective in sociology that rightly has gained considerable attention. --Mathieu Deflem, University of South Carolina

This book offers a comprehensive perspective on the sociological study of genocide from the viewpoint of the paradigm of pure sociology and the theory of social geometry. It is insightful and duly provocative. It discusses an important topic, and it does so from a perspective in sociology that rightly has gained considerable attention. The perspective of pure sociology shows its value best when it is able to reveal what others have not yet seen.--Mathieu Deflem, University of South Carolina, author of The Policing of Terrorism: Organizational and Global Perspectives

This book is insightful and duly provocative. It discusses an important topic, and it does so from a perspective in sociology that rightly has gained considerable attention. -Mathieu Deflem, University of South Carolina

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Bradley Campbell is Associate Professor of Sociology at California State University, Los Angeles, USA.

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