Making Sense of Mass Atrocity

Klappentext This 2009 book trenchantly diagnoses the law's limits in making sense of mass atrocity. Zusammenfassung Responsibility for mass atrocity is always shared! yet criminal law prefers to blame particular individuals for isolated acts. Is such law! therefore! constitutionally unable to make any sense of the most catastrophic conflagrations of our time? Drawing on the experience of several prosecutions! this book! trenchantly diagnoses the law's limits. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. The challenge of prosecuting mass atrocity; Part I. Legal Rules and their Problems: 2. The responsibility of superiors; 3. Participating in a criminal enterprise; 4. Defining the criminal enterprise; Part II. The Political Context of Legal Choice: 5. Must national prosecutions serve global concerns?; 6. The conflicting incentives of national and international prosecutors; Part III. New Possibilities and Solutions: 7. The bureaucracy of murder; 8. Collective sanctions for collective wrong; 9. The collective responsibility of military officers; 10. Being economical with amnesty.

Product details

• Authors: Mark Osiel, Mark J. Osiel
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 18.08.2011
• EAN: 9781107403185
• ISBN: 978-1-107-40318-5
• No. of pages: 276
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > Criminal law, criminal procedural law, criminology; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, Legal aspects of criminology, International humanitarian law, Public international law: human rights, International human rights law, Criminology: legal aspects, Military & Defence Law