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Focusing on genocide & how it is handled in international law, this article explores the different implications of the idea Hannah Arendt put forward in The Human Condition (1958): that there are certain crimes that can be neither punished nor forgiven. The article points up ambiguities inherent in Arendt's thought & in the very question of genocide, particularly the need for a humane answer to an evil that may be as inhumane as it is banal. It finds that any attempt to mete out justice in the face of a crime like genocide must establish, even artificially build, a link between the act & its legal consequences. Adapted from the source document.

Crime has become the most important globalized business in the world. Operating according to the rules of the market economy, criminal business has managed to overcome physical & cultural borders to become a powerful & increasingly integrated operator. As a specialized system crime is undergoing a process of rapid hybridization, integrating a terrorist dimension as it is losing its connection to any particular territory & as the line between "political" action & criminal corruption is rapidly changing. Adapted from the source document.