Imagining the International - Crime, Justice, and the Promise of Community

"This book charts and examines the existing cultural understandings of international crime and justice in order to tease out the limits and possibilities of globalized criminal courts"--

List of contents

Introduction: The Ideas of "International" Crime and Justice

1. On International Crime, Justice, and Community

2. "Rwanda": The Production of a Global Event

3. International Crime as Spectacle: Scale, Subjectivity, Ethics

4. The Ideal of International Criminal Justice: Transcendence, Otherness, Myth

Conclusion: Community Beyond Crime: Untethering International Crime, Justice, and Community

About the author

Nesam McMillan is a Senior Lecturer in Global Criminology in the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Melbourne, Australia.

Product details

• Authors: Nesam McMillan
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2019
• EAN: 9781503602014
• ISBN: 978-1-5036-0201-4
• No. of pages: 224
• Series: The Cultural Lives of Law
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law