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Atrocity, Punishment, and International Law Hard cover - 2007
by Mark A. Drumbl
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- Title Atrocity, Punishment, and International Law
- Author Mark A. Drumbl
- Binding Hard Cover
- Condition New
- Pages 318
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Cambridge University Press
- Date 2007-07-09
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
- Bookseller's Inventory # ria9780521870894_pod
- ISBN 9780521870894 / 0521870895
- Weight 1.26 lbs (0.57 kg)
- Dimensions 9.45 x 6.49 x 0.77 in (24.00 x 16.48 x 1.96 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Criminal justice, Administration of, Crimes against humanity
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2006035762
- Dewey Decimal Code 345.023
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Summary
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...