Atrocity, Punishment, and International Law
by Mark A. Drumbl
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This book argues that accountability for extraordinary atrocity crimes should not uncritically adopt the methods and assumptions of ordinary liberal criminal law. Criminal punishment designed for common criminals is a response to mass atrocity and a device to promote justice in its aftermath. This book comes to this conclusion after reviewing the sentencing practices of international, national, and local courts and tribunals that punish atrocity perpetrators. Sentencing practices of these institutions fail to attain the goals that international criminal law ascribes to punishment, in particular retribution and deterrence. Fresh thinking is necessary to confront the collective nature of mass atrocity and the disturbing reality that individual membership in group-based killings is often not maladaptive or deviant behavior but, rather, adaptive or conformist behavior. This book turns to a modern, and adventurously pluralist, application of classical notions of cosmopolitanism to a...
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- Title
- Atrocity, Punishment, and International Law
- Author
- Mark A. Drumbl
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- Hard Cover
- Book Condition
- New
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- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0521870895
- ISBN 13
- 9780521870894
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- This edition first published
- July 9, 2007
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