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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      March 2022
      March 2022
      ISBN:
      9781108766692
      9781108487412
      9781108720168
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108766692
      Dimensions:
      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.596kg, 314 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      312 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Public International Law, Law, Criminal Law
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    Public International Law, Law, Criminal Law
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    International criminal justice is, at its core, an anti-atrocity project. Yet just what an 'atrocity' is remains undefined and undertheorized. This book examines how associations between atrocity commission and the production of horrific spectacles shape the processes through which international crimes are identified and conceptualized, leading to the foregrounding of certain forms of mass violence and the backgrounding or complete invisibilization of others. In doing so, it identifies various, seemingly banal ways through which international crimes may be committed and demonstrates how the criminality of such forms of violence and abuse tends to be obfuscated. This book suggests that the failure to address these 'invisible atrocities' represents a major flaw in the current international criminal justice system, one that produces a host of problematic repercussions and undermines the legal legitimacy of international criminal law itself.

    Awards

    Honorable Mention, 2023 Herbert Jacob Book Prize, Law and Society Association

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