Advocates of Humanity - Human Rights Ngos in International Criminal Justice

Analyses the cultural meaning and social dynamics of international criminal justice by exploring the role of human rights organizations in this sphere after the creation of the International Criminal Court. The book offers an analysis of punishment 'gone global', and how it is constituted by and of global relations of power.

List of contents

• 1: Locating International Criminal Justice


• 2: Spaces


• 3: Networks


• 4: Advocates


• 5: Penal Imaginations


• 6: Victimological Imaginations


• 7: The Pursuit of Global Moral Order


• 8: Towards a Sociology of Punishment for International Criminal Justice

About the author

Dr. Kjersti Lohne is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Department of Criminology and Sociology of Law, University of Oslo, from where she was also awarded her PhD in 2015. Lohne's research interests are the intersections of penal and humanitarian governance in the pursuit of global social order, and the role of law, politics, and the social. She is among a few international scholars who have been granted access to the US military base on Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. She has been a visiting researcher at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (2013), University of Oxford (2014), and the University of Copenhagen (2018). Her research has appeared in journals such as Theoretical Criminology, Millennium: Journal of International Studies, Surveillance & Society and Law & Society Review. Lohne is a member of tthe Young Academe of Norway, and received His Majesty the King's Gold Medal for research excellence in 2017.

Summary

Analyses the cultural meaning and social dynamics of international criminal justice by exploring the role of human rights organizations in this sphere after the creation of the International Criminal Court. The book offers an analysis of punishment 'gone global', and how it is constituted by and of global relations of power.

Product details

• Authors: Kjersti Lohne, Kjersti (Postdoctoral Reseracher Lohne
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 05.12.2019
• EAN: 9780198818748
• ISBN: 978-0-19-881874-8
• No. of pages: 286
• Series: Clarendon Studies in Criminology
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, LAW / Criminal Law / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology, LAW / International, LAW / Public, International Law, International Criminal Law, Crime and criminology, Crime & criminology, Public international law: criminal law, Public international law: human rights, International human rights law, International Organisations & Institutions