Which category includes genocide within international crime?

• A. Crimes against the international community
• B. Transnational crime
• C. Domestic crime
• D. Corporate crime

Answer: (A)

Genocide is categorized as a crime against the international community because it harms a protected group in a way that shocks the entire international order. Its impact goes beyond any one nation’s borders and concerns humanity as a whole, so international law treats it as an offense that the global community has a responsibility to prevent and punish. That sense of collective liability is what places genocide under crimes against the international community, alongside other grave offenses that threaten peace and security worldwide.

It’s not a transnational crime in the usual sense, which involves criminal activity that crosses borders for profit or advantage. It’s not merely domestic crime, which is confined within a single state’s jurisdiction, nor corporate crime, which involves illegal acts by or for corporations. The defining feature here is the impact on the international community as a whole, which is why genocide fits this category.