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5 - Locating victim communities within global justice and governance

from PART 1 - International criminal justice

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 June 2011

By
Mark Findlay
Edited by
Adam Crawford
Mark Findlay
Affiliation:
University of Sydney
Adam Crawford
Affiliation:
University of Leeds
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Summary

The eyes of victims of past crimes and of the potential victims of future crimes are fixed firmly upon us.

Kofi Annan opening the ICC Rome Conference

Introduction

Those who would like to see the international criminal trial remain a retributive endeavour reflecting the conventional features and characteristics of domestic trials are concerned that enhancing victim constituency for the international trial process will endanger its limited potential success (Judah and Bryant 2003). Some critics declare that the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in particular has achieved legitimacy through the effective prosecution of significant offenders important to many victim communities (Findlay and McLean 2007). In this, it is argued, lies sufficient justification for the expansion of a retributive international trial process in the form of the International Criminal Court (ICC). In addition, the disclosure debacle around the first ICC indictment, which clearly divided the interests of the prosecutor and of victims heightens the challenges to conventional trial positioning if victim interests are given standing.

Despite such narrower legalist assertions the ICC, and its prosecutor, have claimed more universalist justifications in the form of the court's potential to assist in state reconstruction and peacemaking. Further, the ICC and the international tribunals which precede it have within their authorising legislation growing recognition of victim interests, even if this remains largely outside the processes of trial decision making.

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International and Comparative Criminal Justice and Urban Governance
Convergence and Divergence in Global, National and Local Settings
 , pp. 109 - 139
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2011

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