Criminal Justice in International Society [Hardcover]

This book adopts a critical criminological approach to analyze the production, representation and role of crime in the emerging international order. It analyzes the role of power and its influence on the dynamics of criminalization at an international level, facilitating an examination of the geopolitics of international criminal justice. Such an approach to crime is well-developed in domestic criminology; however, this critical approach is yet to be used to explore the relationship between power, crime and justice in an international setting. This book brings together contrasting opinions on how courts, prosecutors, judges, NGOs, and other bodies act to reflexively produce the social reality of international justice. In doing this, it bridges the gaps between the fields of sociology, criminology, international relations, political science, and international law to explore the problems and prospects of international criminal justice and illustrate the role of crime and criminalization in a complex, evolving, and contested international society.

Introduction: What Crime? Which Justice? What International Society?  Willem de LintSection I. International Crime and Criminology Foundations 1. The Rationale of International Criminal Justice: Idealpolitik, Realpolitik and the International Criminal Court  Nerida Chazal  2. The Non-Existent Legal Basis for Judicial Interventionism  John Laughland  Section II. The Authority and Capacity of Actors in the International Criminal Justice System  3. Legitimising International Criminal Justice: The Importance of Process Control  Nancy Combs  4. The Politics of Prosecution: The Role of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court PhilipStenning  5. Judicial Agency and Spatial Practices:A Geo-Political Analysisl³.