ABSTRACT
This chapter provides a broad review of the role of women working in the international criminal justice system. Gender balance in domestic and international criminal justice systems is particularly important to discussions of state-perpetrated gender-based violence as these personnel represent those directly tasked with administering justice and potentially can inform policies and practices that respond to state crime. As an apparatus of state the criminal justice system is particularly important. Nonetheless, as an institution it is plagued with issues of gender discrimination. Recent research has exposed similar patterns of gender discrimination for women working in the criminal justice system, irrespective of their particular career field. An examination of the international criminal justice system suggests a greater gender consciousness when it comes to the appointment of legal personnel and judiciary than in many domestic systems. There are eighteen judiciary positions at the International Criminal Court working in the three trial divisions; pretrial, trial and appeals.
