Moral Accountability and International Criminal Law
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Moral Accountability and International Criminal Law

Holding Agents of Atrocity Accountable to the World

  1. 224 pages
  2. English
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eBook - ePub

Moral Accountability and International Criminal Law

Holding Agents of Atrocity Accountable to the World

About this book

This book examines international criminal law from a normative perspective and lays out how responsible agents, individuals and the collectives they comprise, ought to be held accountable to the world for the commission of atrocity. The author provides criteria for determining the kinds of actions that should be addressed through international criminal law. Additionally, it asks, and answers, how individual responsibility can be determined in the context of collectively perpetrated political crimes and whether an international criminal justice system can claim universality in a culturally plural world. The book also examines the function of international criminal law and finally considers how the goals and purposes of international law can best be institutionally supported.

This book is of particular interest to a multidisciplinary academic audience in political science, philosophy, and law, however the book is written in clear jargon-free prose that is intended to render the arguments accessible to the non-specialist reader interested in global justice, human rights and international criminal law.

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Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2013
Print ISBN
9780415859707
eBook ISBN
9781136633324
Edition
1
Topic
Law
Subtopic
Criminal Law
Index
Law

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. Acknowledgements
  7. Table of cases
  8. Table of statutes
  9. List of abbreviations
  10. Introduction
  11. 1. The distinct domain of international criminal law
  12. 2. International crimes
  13. 3. The expressive value of judgment and punishment
  14. 4. Challenges of individual responsibility within collective wrongs
  15. 5. Identifying liability, fair labelling and limited offenses
  16. 6. Complementarity and the detriments of universal jurisdiction
  17. 7. Evaluating judicial mechanisms
  18. 8. Retributive justice as culturally insensitive?
  19. 9. Collective responsibility and collective punishment
  20. Conclusion
  21. Bibliography
  22. Interviews cited
  23. Index