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Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- List of Cases -- PART I: CYCLE OF MASS ATROCITIES -- 1. Introduction: Breaking the Cycle of Mass Atrocities: Criminological and Socio-Legal Approaches to International Criminal Law -- I. The Cycle of Mass Atrocities -- II. Structure of the Book -- III. Methodological Approach -- IV. Urgency in Developing Multidisciplinary Approaches to International Criminal Law -- 2. The Biology and Psychology of Atrocity and the Erasure of Memory -- I. The Search for Criminological Understanding: The Criminology of Atrocity and Confronting the 'Monster Within' -- II. A Framework for Discussion: It Begins in Biology But Includes Much Else -- III. Memory and the Erasure of Memory -- IV. Sign-Off -- PART II: CRIMINALISATION -- 3. International Criminalisation as a Pragmatic Institutional Process: The Cases of Dominic Ongwen at the International Criminal Court and Thomas Kwoyelo at the International Crimes Division in the Situation in Uganda -- I. Introduction -- II. Beyond the 'Black Letter' Origin of International Criminalisation -- III. Pragmatic Criminalisation as a Dual-Nature Institutional Process -- IV. International Criminalisation as a Pragmatic Institution-Dependent Process in the Situation in Uganda -- V. Conclusions -- 4. Solidarity as a Moral and Legal Basis for Crimes Against Humanity: A Durkheimian Perspective -- I. Introduction -- II. Reasons for Looking at Durkheim in 'Grounding' International Criminal Law -- III. Problems with the Category of Crimes Against Humanity -- IV. The 'How' Question: International Criminal Trials as Religious Rituals -- V. Conclusion: The Rising Significance of the Category of Crimes Against Humanity -- PART III: TRIAL AND PUNISHMENT -- 5. The Hybrid System of International Criminal Law: A Work in Progress or Just a Noble Experiment? -- I. Introduction.

"Do human rights offer real protection when disadvantaged groups invoke them at the local level in an attempt to improve their living conditions? If so, how can we make sure that the experiences of those invoking human rights at the local level have an impact on the further development of human rights (at national and other levels) so that the local relevance of human rights increases? Since the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) on 10 December 1948, numerous international documents have reaffirmed human rights as global norms. This book examines what factors determine whether appeals to human rights that emanate from the local level are successful, and whether the UDHR adequately responds to threats as currently defined by relevant groups or whether a revision of some of the ideas included in the UDHR is needed in order to increase its contemporary relevance"--

This interdisciplinary volume aims to understand the linkages between the origins and aftermaths of genocide. Exploring social dynamics and human behaviour, this collection considers the interplay of various psychological, political, anthropological and historical factors at work in genocidal processes

In Nederland werd door de Rijkswet van 2 december 2004 de Onderzoeksraad voor Veiligheid opgericht. Deze onafhankelijke raad stelt onderzoeken in naar rampen, ongevallen en incidenten en formuleert op basis daarvan adviezen aan de betrokken actoren om de veiligheid te versterken. De gasexplosie in Gellingen, de treinramp in Buizingen en de trein- en giframp in Wetteren zijn slechts enkele voorbeelden van ernstige voorvallen die zich de afgelopen jaren in België hebben voorgedaan. Gedurende de periode 2010-2011 heeft het Leuvens Instituut voor Criminologie, in opdracht van de Algemene Directie Veiligheid en Preventie (FOD Binnenlandse Zaken) en in samenwerking met het Crisiscentrum, onderzocht of de beleidsmatige reactie ten aanzien van zulke voorvallen adequaat is en of de oprichting van een onafhankelijk onderzoeksorgaan ook zinvol zou zijn in de Belgische context. Dit boek vormt de volgende stap in de reflectie over de mogelijke oprichting van een dergelijk onderzoeksorgaan in België

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Introduction: On History, Historians, and Transitional Justice / Adler, Nanci -- Part I: The complex relationship between truth and justice -- 1. Swinging the Pendulum: Fin-de-Siècle Historians in the Courts / Petrović, Vladimir -- 2. Time, Justice, and Human Rights: Statutory Limitation on the Right to Truth? / Schabas, William A. -- 3. How Truth Recovery Can Benefit from a Conditional Amnesty / Sarkin, Jeremy -- 4. New Epistemologies for Confronting International Crimes: Developing the Information, Dialogue, and Process (IDP) Approach to Transitional Justice / Parmentier, Stephan / Rauschenbach, Mina / Craen, Maarten van -- Part II: The narrative of the trial record -- 5. The Spark for Genocide? Propaganda and Historical Narratives at International Criminal Tribunals / Wilson, Richard Ashby -- 6. The International Criminal Trial Record as Historical Source / Bouwknegt, Thijs B. -- Part III: The afterlife of transitional justice processes -- 7. Narrating (In)Justice in the Form of a Reparation Claim: Bottom-Up Reflections on a Postcolonial Setting—The Rawagede Case / Immler, Nicole L. -- 8. Collective and Competitive Victimhood as Identity in the Former Yugoslavia / Nielsen, Christian Axboe -- 9. Perpetrator-Victims: How Universal Victimhood in Cambodia Impacts Transitional Justice Measures / Williams, Timothy -- 10. Collective Crimes, Collective Memory, and Transitional Justice in Bangladesh / Anderson, Kjell -- Acknowledgments -- Notes on Contributors -- Index

Current media and political discourse on crime has long ignored crimes committed by States themselves, despite their greater financial and human toll. For the past two decades, scholars have examined how and why States violate their own laws and international law and explored what can be done to reduce or prevent these injustices. Through a collection of essays by leading scholars in the field, State Crime offers a set of cases exemplifying state criminality along with various methods for controlling governmental transgressions. With topics ranging from crimes of aggression to nuclear weapons to the construction and implementation of social controls, this volume is an indispensable resource for those who examine the behavior of States and those who study crime in its varied forms