Atrocity, Punishment, and International Law
Howdo we, and howshould we, punish someone whocommits genocide, crimes against humanity, or discrimination-based war crimes? These questions – the former descriptive, the latter normative – are the focus of this book. These questions have received much less attention than they deserve. Although...
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Cambridge University Press
2013
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| Tóm tắt: | Howdo we, and howshould we, punish someone whocommits genocide, crimes
against humanity, or discrimination-based war crimes? These questions – the
former descriptive, the latter normative – are the focus of this book.
These questions have received much less attention than they deserve.
Although international criminal law has gone a long way to convict individuals
for perpetrating atrocity, it has traversed far less creative ground in terms
of conceptualizing how to sanction them. Scholars, too, have been remiss. Surprisingly
little work has been undertaken that explores how and why criminal
justice institutions punish atrocity crimes and whether the sentences levied by
these institutions actually attain the proffered rationales. Furthermore, there is
little empirical work that assesses whether what international tribunals doctrinally
say they are doing actually has a consistent and predictable effect on the
quantum of sentence |
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