ABSTRACT
On the subject of justice, the research material seems clear. Justice is about understanding behaviours that society has declared intolerable, along with the institutions and people employed to monitor these behaviours, both before and after these behaviours have been identied as criminal. Similarly, it is crucial to know how these crime control instruments are used, and to assess their eectiveness. The problems of daily coexistence test the limits of the law, and it is a permanent challenge in our societies to continually dene the law, in order to make it t for a dynamic and changing daily life. It is therefore logical that the debate should include areas outside the law. This category allows for the identication of areas in which the law ought to express itself unequivocally to explain how even today it is possible to put a price on the head of an international criminal or to fail to abide by the terms of international laws on the treatment of prisoners of war, and more generally the so-called dirty war against organised crime, or breaches of international agreements aecting human rights. Every society has existed with areas of social control both within and outside the law, and has projected them onto every facet of life, from daily life to international relations.
