Why punish perpetrators of mass atrocities?: purposes of punishment in international criminal law
"Why punish perpetrators of mass atrocities? Given the rapid development and advancing consolidation of international criminal law it seems rather late to ask this question. However, the question of rationales of international punishment is still under-researched and under-theorized, and of rel...
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, United Kingdom New York, NY, USA Port Melbourne, VIC, Australia New Delhi, India Singapore
Cambridge University Press
[2020]
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| In: | Year: 2020 |
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| Summary: | "Why punish perpetrators of mass atrocities? Given the rapid development and advancing consolidation of international criminal law it seems rather late to ask this question. However, the question of rationales of international punishment is still under-researched and under-theorized, and of relevance for a solid grounding of international criminal law. Therefore, in our view, it was about time to bring together scholars and practitioners from different disciplines and groups of experts: scholars whose research focuses on theories of punishment in general, scholars whose main research interest is international criminal law, and finally lawyers working at international criminal courts or tribunals and concerned with the enforcement of international criminal law. The present volume is the result of these discussions"-- |
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| Item Description: | Enthält Literaturangaben und Sachregister [The book] "[...] goes back to a conference on the same topic held at the University of Hamburg in October 2017. Several of the contributions assembled in this volume are edited papers presented at the Hamburg conference. In addition, [...] some colleagues [...] - some who attended the Hamburg conference, and others thad did not - [...] submit[ted] concise comments on one or more of the longer chapters." - Preface (Seite xv) |
| Physical Description: | xviii, 392 Seiten |
| ISBN: | 9781108475143 9781108465892 |