Five Studies About: Ongwen*
Five Studies About: Ongwen*
Curated crime research studies, all relating to Ongwen
Hello! I'm Aaron Jacklin, and this is The Art of Explaining Crime, an independent newsletter that helps you think and write about crime.
Published Tuesdays and Thursdays, Five Studies About is a free tip sheet where I curate recent crime and justice studies related to one topic.
* Today, that topic is Dominic Ongwen, the former child solder convicted by the International Criminal Court of “61 counts of crimes against humanity and war crimes allegedly committed after 1 July 2002 in northern Uganda.”
When Ongwen was convicted in 2021, The Guardian summed it up this way: “Dominic Ongwen was convicted on [Feb. 4, 2021] of 61 individual charges of murder, rape, sexual slavery, abduction and torture committed as a commander in the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), a violent cult which waged a bloody campaign of violence in Uganda and neighbouring countries from the mid-1980s until a few years ago.”
Ongwen was born sometime in 1975 (we don’t seem to know exactly when), making him in his late 20s when the crimes he was convicted of began.
Today’s studies, each related to Ongwen, were all published within the last six months.
These new crime studies related to Ongwen were recently published by journals I monitor. Today, each study is from the Journal of International Criminal Justice.
1. The Barlonyo Massacre, Ongwen’s Trial, and ICC Reparations: Reflections on the Dynamics of Expectations and Disappointment [Journal of International Criminal Justice]
2. Erasing the ‘Victim’ from the ‘Victim–Perpetrator’ [Journal of International Criminal Justice]
3. In Search of the Prototype of Forced Marriage [Journal of International Criminal Justice]
4. Witnessing Ongwen [Journal of International Criminal Justice]
5. Victims’ Perspectives on Participation in the Ongwen Case [Journal of International Criminal Justice]
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