Work on crime and human rights links together human rights literature, including work about genocide, with ideas from sociological criminology. A short book, intended as a class tool is:
 
Joachim J. Savelsberg. 2010. Crime and Human Rights: Criminology of Genocide and Atrocities. London: Sage.
 
The book provides criminological insight to the subject, exploring explanations of and responses to human rights abuses. It is divided into three parts:
 
Part 1: Examines the legal and historical approach to the topic within a criminological framework
 
Part 2: Unpicks the etiology of human rights offending, using detailed case studies such as the Holocaust and the Darfur genocide
 
Part 3: Explores institutional responses to crimes and uses criminological theory to offer solutions
 
Crime and Human Rights is written for advanced students, postgraduates and scholars of crime, crime control and human rights. Its appeal should span across other disciplines from politics and sociology to development studies, law, and philosophy.
 
Related publications include:
 

• Joachim J. Savelsberg. 2012. “Crime, Law and Deviance.” In Handbook of Sociology and Human Rights, edited by David L. Brunsma, Keri E. Iyall Smith, and Bryan K. Gran. Boulder, CO: Paradigm, pp. XXX

 

• Joachim J. Savelsberg. 2013. “Highlights in the Sociology of Law: Globalizing Law and Penalizing Human Rights Violations.”     Contemporary Sociology, Vol. 42, No. 2, pp. 167-176.

 

• Joachim J. Savelsberg. 2013. “Review Essay on Aryeh Neier’s The International Human Rights Movement: A History.” Law and Social Inquiry Vol. 38, No. 2, pp. 512-37.

 

• Joachim J. Savelsberg. 2014. “Human Rights Violations in Criminal Courts.” Encyclopedia for Criminology and Criminal Justice, edited by Gerben Bruinsma and David Weisburd. Springer, pp. 2371-2382.