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Nazis and perpetrators of mass crimes: how does one go about it? Photo: A group of men from the 101st reserve battalion of the German police, in uniform, drink and enjoy themselves.

“The unconditional belief that you are good is dangerous”

Anyone can potentially become a perpetrator of mass atrocities says Alette Smeulers, professor at the University of Groningen, in The Netherlands. After a thirty years’ research, she developed a typology in which she distinguishes 14 different types of perpetrators of mass crimes.

By Tjitske Lingsma (in The Hague, Netherlands)

Photo montage from the slideshow illustrating our first Justice Info Correspondents' Meeting in Geneva (November 2023).

A window onto Justice Info’s editorial team

Around the world, justice for the Church's sexual crimes is increasing. Photo: priest.

Sexual crimes in the Church: pressure grows as revelations spread

Commission on sexual abuse in the Swiss Church. Photo: Activists from Ending Clergy Abuse pose with portraits of members of the clergy.

What next after Swiss report on sexual abuse in the Church?

Independent enquiry and commission into the crimes of British Special Forces (SAS) in Afghanistan - Photo: a British soldier carries out a night raid.

UK military abuses in Afghanistan: SAS in the firing line

Looking for the missing in Ukraine - Ukrainian rescuers after the destruction of a residential building in Dnipro (Ukraine) by a missile strike.

Looking for the missing in Ukraine

What justice for enforced disappearances around the world? © Marina Margarina / Justice Info

The disappeared who will never be forgotten

Our best Justice stories - Justice Info takes a break. Publications resume on August 21.

Our best justice stories (2022-2023)

Launch of the ICPA (International Center for the Prosecution of the Crime of Aggression against Ukraine) in The Hague, Netherlands.

The ICPA, new kid on the block in the world capital of international justice

Justice in Sudan - Young people demonstrating in Khartoum

Sudan transitional justice: agreement in sight or a "big lie"?

Civilian buildings destroyed in Mariupol, Ukraine

UN investigation in Ukraine: Russian war crimes were committed at a "massive scale"

In Marioupol, Ukraine, a woman carries her child in her arms in the street. Behind her, Russian soldiers are patrolling. In the background: destroyed civilian buildings.

UN commission on Ukraine crimes “will seek to identify persons and entities” responsible

Viktor Bout, a famous Russian arms dealer (who operated in Liberia), is seen in this photo behind bars (in 2010), imprisoned in Thailand. He may soon be released, exchanged for other prisoners.

Viktor Bout for Brittney Grinner: a prisoner exchange that forgets Liberia

A man speaks into a microphone, on a platform, surrounded by a crowd. He raises his fist in front of a banner that reads,

Five years after the crackdown on Rohingya, “it’s getting worse and worse”

Justice Info is taking a break. Publications will resume on August 22. 6 photos from our best justice stories.

Our best justice stories (2021-2022)

Chines judge Hangin Xue and other ICJ judges

ICJ admits genocide case against Myanmar

3D image illustrating the construction project of the Paris court (office buildings). In the foreground, the logos of several companies (Lafarge, BNP Paribas, Uniqlo, Amesys and Castel group) are embedded in bubbles.

Lafarge and the judicial twists and turns of corporate liability in France

Prisoner of war in Ulkraine

Crimes against prisoners of war in Ukraine: can both sides be tried?

A scale whose weight tilts to one side (multiple logos of multinationals: Total, Ericsson, Lundin, Exxon Mobil, Lafarge). On the other side, the text

Business and human rights: the pressure is mounting