Victims, Atrocity and International Criminal Justice - Rachel Killean

Victims, Atrocity and International Criminal Justice

Lessons from Cambodia

(Autor)

Buch | Hardcover
246 Seiten
2018
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-138-73776-1 (ISBN)
168,35 inkl. MwSt
This book examines the role of victims within the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia. Drawing on a series of interviews with key figures, the book explores the way in which all parties within it are shaped by specific political, economic and legal contexts; notably, whether victims can further their interests within the courtroom.
While international criminal courts have often been declared as bringing ‘justice’ to victims, their procedures and outcomes historically showed little reflection of the needs and interests of victims themselves. This situation has changed significantly over the last sixty years; victims are increasingly acknowledged as having various ‘rights’, while their need for justice has been deployed as a means of justifying the establishment of international criminal courts. However, it is arguable that the goals of political and legal elites continue to be given precedence, and the ability of courts to deliver ‘justice to victims’ remains contested. This book contributes to this important debate through an examination of the role of victims as civil parties within the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia. Drawing on a series of interviews with civil parties, court practitioners and civil society actors, the book explores the way in which both the ECCC and the role of victims within it are shaped by specific political, economic and legal contexts; examining the ‘gap’ between the legitimising value of the ‘imagined victim’, and the extent to which victims are able to further their interests within the courtroom.

Rachel Killean is a lecturer at Queen’s University Belfast

1. Introduction

2. Victimology, Victims’ Rights and the Politicised Victim

3. Compromised Justice: The Road to the ECCC

4. Judicial Policy Making and the Shaping of Civil Party Participation

5. Practitioner Perspectives on Working for and with Victims

6. Professionalised Civil Society and the Civil Party System

7. Civil Parties, Justice and Legitimacy at the ECCC

8. Conclusion

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Transitional Justice
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 234 mm
Gewicht 502 g
Themenwelt Recht / Steuern EU / Internationales Recht
Recht / Steuern Strafrecht Strafverfahrensrecht
ISBN-10 1-138-73776-3 / 1138737763
ISBN-13 978-1-138-73776-1 / 9781138737761
Zustand Neuware
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