Cambodia. Rwanda. Armenia. Nazi Germany. History remembers these places as the sites of unspeakable crimes against humanity and indisputably of genocide. Yet throughout the twentieth century the world has seen many instances of violence committed by states against certain groups within their bordersamp8212from the colonial ethnic cleansing the Germans committed against the Herero tribe in Africa to the Katyn Forest Massacre in which the Soviets shot over 20000 Poles to anticommunist mass murders in 1960s Indonesia. Are mass crimes against humanity like these still genocide And how can an understanding of crime and criminals shed new light on how genocideamp8212the amp8220crime of all crimesamp8221amp8212transpires In The Crime of All Crimes criminologist Nicole Rafter takes an innovative approach to the study of genocide by comparing eight diverse genocideslargescale and small wellknown and obscureamp8212through the lens of criminal behavior. Rafter explores different models of genocidal activity reflecting on the popular use of the Holocaust as a model for genocide and ways in which other genocides conform to different patterns. For instance Rafter questions the assumption that only ethnic groups are targeted for genocidal amp8220cleansing and she also urges that actions such as genocidal rape be considered alongside traditional instances of genocidal violence. Further by examining the causes of genocide on different levels Rafter is able to construct profiles of typical victims and perpetrators and discuss means of preventing genocide in addition to delving into the social psychology of genocidal behavior and the ways in which genocides are brought to an end. A sweeping and innovative investigation into the most tragic of events in the modern world The Crime of All Crimes will fundamentally change how we think about genocide in the present day.