ABSTRACT

International Practices of Criminal Justice: Social and Legal Perspectives examines the practitioners, practices, and institutions that are transforming the relationship between criminal justice and international governance. The book links two dimensions of international criminal justice, by analyzing the fields of international criminal law and international police cooperation. Although often thought of separately, each of these fields presents criminal justice as a governance method for resolving international challenges and crises. By focusing on examples from international criminal tribunals, transitional justice, transnational crime, and transnational policing and prosecution, the contributors to this collection all examine how criminal justice is unmoored from the state, while also attending to the struggles and challenges that emerge when criminal justice is used as a form of international action. International Practices of Criminal Justice: Social and Legal Perspectives breaks new ground in criminology, international legal studies and the sociology of law, and will be of interest to students, scholars, and practitioners across a wide array of fields in criminal justice, international law, and international governance.

chapter |14 pages

Introduction

An internationalized criminal justice: paths of law and paths of police

part |72 pages

Part 1

chapter 1|19 pages

Reunited Europe and the internationalization of criminal law

The creation and circulation of criminal law as an international governance tool

chapter 3|16 pages

The transformation of legal ideas

The globalization and politicization of transitional justice in the Middle East

chapter 4|21 pages

The global governance of transnational crime

Implications for justice and the rule of law

part |103 pages

Part 2

chapter 5|19 pages

Prosecutorial strategies and opening statements

Justifying international prosecutions from the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg through to the International Criminal Court

chapter 7|18 pages

Trading on guilt

The judicial logic of plea bargains at the ICTY and its transplant to Serbia and Bosnia

chapter 8|20 pages

The making of international criminal justice

Towards a sociology of the ‘legal field’

part |84 pages

Part 3

chapter 10|18 pages

Criminal investigation and prosecution by a European public prosecutor’s office in the EU

Shared enforcement without procedural safeguards and judicial protection? 1

chapter 11|17 pages

Virtual trials revisited

The shifting politics of state cooperation from the UN ad hoc tribunals to the International Criminal Court