Atrocity, Punishment, and International Law [Paperback]

This book examines the sentencing differences for atrocities such as genocide in an international setting.Examining the sentencing procedures internationally, domestically, and locally, this book examines how people who commit atrocities should be treated in regards to international law. Looking at Rwanda, Uganda, East Timor, and others, Dr. Drumbl examines the ways that international law is or is not carried out in international settings.Examining the sentencing procedures internationally, domestically, and locally, this book examines how people who commit atrocities should be treated in regards to international law. Looking at Rwanda, Uganda, East Timor, and others, Dr. Drumbl examines the ways that international law is or is not carried out in international settings.This book rethinks how people who perpetrate atrocity crimes should be punished. Based on an 'on the ground' review of the sentencing of perpetrators of genocide and crimes against humanity in Rwanda, Bosnia, East Timor, and other places afflicted by atrocity, this book concludes that the international community's preference for prosecution and imprisonment may not be as effective as we hope. Instead, this book calls for a broader-based response to atrocity that welcomes bottom-up perspectives, including restorative, reparative, and reintegrative traditions, that may differ from the adversarial Western criminal trial. The time has come for international criminal law as a discipline to move beyond nascence and to welcome a more challenging stage: that of re-appraisal and self-improvement.1. Extraordinary crime and ordinary punishment: an overview; 2. Conformity and deviance; 3. Punishment of international crimes in international criminal tribunals; 4. Punishment of international crimes in national and local criminal justice institutions; 5. Legal mimicry; 6. Quest for purpose; 7. From law to justice; 8. Conclusion: some immediate implications. Mark Drumbl has written the first major study of punishmlÃE