RT Article
T1 Penal logics in international politics: Nordic foreign policy on international justice
JF Punishment in international society
SP 73
OP 98
A1 Lohne, Kjersti
LA English
YR 2024
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1940997461
AB To contribute to the development of an international sociology of punishment, this chapter offers an analysis of penal power when it is detached from its association with national justice and enters the realm of the international. Specifically, the chapter contributes a comparative analysis of Nordic discourses driving penal power in two overlapping yet nonetheless distinct areas of transnational concern - namely the field of international criminal justice and the prosecution of foreign fighters. It argues that whereas a humanitarian discourse drives the Nordic engagement in the larger field of international criminal justice, the discourse on foreign fighters is characterized by “securitization” - transforming the prosecution of international crimes into a matter of national security. As such, the analysis raises interesting questions about penal logics in international politics and about how penal power beyond the nation-state remains receptive to securitization despite political support for an international system of criminal justice.
NO Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 95-98
SN 9780197693483
K1 Sociology of punishment
K1 International criminal justice
K1 Foreign fighters
K1 Nordics
K1 international norm violations
K1 international sociology
K1 Foreign Policy
K1 Discourse Analysis