Atrocity

Author : Mark A. Drumbl
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2007-04-30
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781139464567

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Atrocity, Punishment, and International Law by Mark A. Drumbl Pdf

This book argues that accountability for extraordinary atrocity crimes should not uncritically adopt the methods and assumptions of ordinary liberal criminal law. Criminal punishment designed for common criminals is a response to mass atrocity and a device to promote justice in its aftermath. This book comes to this conclusion after reviewing the sentencing practices of international, national, and local courts and tribunals that punish atrocity perpetrators. Sentencing practices of these institutions fail to attain the goals that international criminal law ascribes to punishment, in particular retribution and deterrence. Fresh thinking is necessary to confront the collective nature of mass atrocity and the disturbing reality that individual membership in group-based killings is often not maladaptive or deviant behavior but, rather, adaptive or conformist behavior. This book turns to a modern, and adventurously pluralist, application of classical notions of cosmopolitanism to advance the frame of international criminal law to a broader construction of atrocity law and towards an interdisciplinary, contextual, and multicultural conception of justice.

Author : Randle C. DeFalco
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2022-03-17
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781108487412

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Invisible Atrocities by Randle C. DeFalco Pdf

This book assesses the role aesthetic factors play in shaping what forms of mass violence are viewed as international crimes.

Author : J. G. Ballard
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 23 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2009-10-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780007322190

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The Atrocity Exhibition by J. G. Ballard Pdf

First published in 1970 and widely regarded as a prophetic masterpiece, this is a groundbreaking experimental novel by the acclaimed author of ‘Crash’ and ‘Super-Cannes’.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0896047164

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Fundamentals of Genocide and Mass Atrocity Prevention by Anonim Pdf

Author : Amy Sodaro
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2018-01-23
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780813592176

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Exhibiting Atrocity by Amy Sodaro Pdf

Today, nearly any group or nation with violence in its past has constructed or is planning a memorial museum as a mechanism for confronting past trauma, often together with truth commissions, trials, and/or other symbolic or material reparations. Exhibiting Atrocity documents the emergence of the memorial museum as a new cultural form of commemoration, and analyzes its use in efforts to come to terms with past political violence and to promote democracy and human rights. Through a global comparative approach, Amy Sodaro uses in-depth case studies of five exemplary memorial museums that commemorate a range of violent pasts and allow for a chronological and global examination of the trend: the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC; the House of Terror in Budapest, Hungary; the Kigali Genocide Memorial Centre in Rwanda; the Museum of Memory and Human Rights in Santiago, Chile; and the National September 11 Memorial Museum in New York. Together, these case studies illustrate the historical emergence and global spread of the memorial museum and show how this new cultural form of commemoration is intended to be used in contemporary societies around the world.

Author : Jocelyn Getgen Kestenbaum,Caitlin O. Mahoney,Amy E. Meade,Arlan F. Fuller
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2021-07-29
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781000414240

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Public Health, Mental Health, and Mass Atrocity Prevention by Jocelyn Getgen Kestenbaum,Caitlin O. Mahoney,Amy E. Meade,Arlan F. Fuller Pdf

This multidisciplinary volume considers the role of both public health and mental health policies and practices in the prevention of mass atrocity, including war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide. The authors address atrocity prevention through the framework of primary (pre-conflict), secondary (mid-conflict), and tertiary (post-conflict) settings. They examine the ways in which public health and mental health scholars and practitioners currently orient their research and interventions and the ways in which we can adapt frameworks, methods, tools, and practice toward a more sophisticated and truly interdisciplinary understanding and application of atrocity prevention. The book brings together diverse fields of study by global north and global south authors in diverse contexts. It culminates in a narrative that demonstrates the state of the current fields on intersecting themes within public health, mental health, and mass atrocity prevention and the future potential directions in which these intersections could go. Such discussions will serve to influence both policy makers and practitioners in these fields toward developing, adapting, and testing frames and tools for atrocity prevention. Multidisciplinary perspectives are represented among editors and authors, including law, political science, international studies, public health, mental health, philosophy, clinical psychology, social psychology, history, and peace studies.

Author : Gregory S. Gordon
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : History
ISBN : 9780190612689

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Atrocity Speech Law by Gregory S. Gordon Pdf

Prof. Gordon provides a broad analysis of the entire jurisprudential output related to speech and gross human rights violations for courts, government officials, and scholars. The book is organized into three parts. The first part covers the foundation: a brief history of atrocity speech and the modern treatment of hate speech in international human rights treaties and judgments under international criminal tribunals. The second part focuses on fragmentation: detailing the inconsistent application of the charges and previous prosecutions, including certain categories of inflammatory speech and a growing doctrinal rift between the ICTR and ICTY. The last part covers fruition: recommendations on how the law should be developed going forward, with proposals to fix the problems with individual speech offenses to coalesce into three categories of offense: incitement, speech-abetting, and instigation.

Author : Bob Tadashi Wakabayashi
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2017-08-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781785335976

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The Nanking Atrocity, 1937-1938 by Bob Tadashi Wakabayashi Pdf

First published in 2007, The Nanking Atrocity remains an essential resource for understanding the massacre committed by Japanese soldiers in Nanking, China during the winter of 1937-38. Through a series of deeply considered and empirically rigorous essays, it provides a far more complex and nuanced perspective than that found in works like Iris Chang’s bestselling The Rape of Nanking. It systematically reveals the flaws and exaggerations in Chang’s book while deflating the self-exculpatory narratives that persist in Japan even today. This second edition includes an extensive new introduction by the editor reflecting on the historiographical developments of the last decade, in advance of the 80th anniversary of the massacre.

Author : Geoffrey Batchen,Mick Gidley,Nancy K. Miller,Jay Prosser
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : UCSD:31822038734059

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Picturing Atrocity by Geoffrey Batchen,Mick Gidley,Nancy K. Miller,Jay Prosser Pdf

This title taps into the widespread interest in, and concern about, photographs of atrocity. The book contains a broad range of atrocity photographs from throughout history and around the world, as well as essays by well-known artists and photographers.

Author : Theodor Meron
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2021-03-25
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780192608628

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Standing Up for Justice by Theodor Meron Pdf

This is a book about international criminal justice written by one of its foremost practitioners and academic thinkers, Judge Theodor Meron. For two decades, Judge Meron has been at the heart of the international criminal justice system, serving as President of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY), President of the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals, and a Judge of the Appeals Chambers of the ICTY and the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda. Drawing on this experience, and his life and career before serving as an international judge, Judge Meron reflects on some of the key questions facing the international criminal justice system. In the opening chapter, Judge Meron writes vividly about his childhood experiences in Poland during World War II, his education, career with the Israeli Foreign Ministry, and subsequent move into academia in the United States. The book continues with Meron's reflections on what it means to transform from a law professor into an international criminal judge, and shifts focus to the criminal courtroom, addressing topics such as the judicial function, the rule of law, and the principle of fairness in trying atrocity crimes: genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes. Judge Meron discusses judicial independence and impartiality in international criminal courts, shedding light on the mystery of judicial decision-making and deliberations. Notably, he addresses the controversial subjects of acquittals and the early release of prisoners. Although acquittals are often seen as a failure of international justice, Judge Meron argues that legal principle must come before any extraneous purpose, however desirable that purpose may be. Finally, the book looks ahead at the challenges facing the future of international justice and accountability, and discusses the all-important question: does international criminal justice work?

Author : Matthew White
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 727 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2011-11-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780393083309

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Atrocities: The 100 Deadliest Episodes in Human History by Matthew White Pdf

“An amusing (really) account of the murderous ways of despots, slave traders, blundering royals, gladiators and assorted hordes.”—New York Times Evangelists of human progress meet their opposite in Matthew White’s epic examination of history’s one hundred most violent events, or, in White’s piquant phrasing, “the numbers that people want to argue about.” Reaching back to the Second Persian War in 480 BCE and moving chronologically through history, White surrounds hard facts (time and place) and succinct takeaways (who usually gets the blame?) with lively military, social, and political histories.

Author : Mark S. Berlin
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2020-02-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780198850441

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Criminalizing Atrocity by Mark S. Berlin Pdf

Why do countries adopt criminal legislation making it possible to prosecute government and military officials for human rights violations? Over the past thirty years, dozens of countries have prosecuted their own or other states' officials for past atrocities. In Criminalizing Atrocity, Mark Berlin tells the story of the global spread of national criminal laws against atrocity crimes - genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity - laws that have helped pave the way for this remarkable trend toward greater accountability. He traces the early 20th-century origins of national atrocity laws to a group of influential European criminal law scholars and explains the global patterns by which these laws have since spread. Berlin shows that understanding why countries criminalize atrocities requires understanding how they do so. In many cases, criminalization has not been the result of concerted government initiative, but of inconspicuous choices made by technocratic legal experts who have been delegated authority to draft large-scale reforms to countries' national criminal codes. Drawing on research in comparative law and norm diffusion, Berlin explains how such reform projects prompt technocratic drafters to select legal ideas, like atrocity laws, that have been endorsed by their professional communities and deemed by drafters to be important features of a ''modern'' criminal code. To test this argument, Berlin draws on original quantitative and qualitative data, including in-depth case studies of Guatemala, Poland, Colombia, and the Maldives, and a new, comprehensive dataset tracking the global spread of atrocity laws since Word War II. The book's findings highlight the importance of professional communities in the modern renaissance of atrocity justice and the domestication of international legal norms.

Author : Thomas Brudholm,Johannes Lang
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2018-03-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107127739

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Emotions and Mass Atrocity by Thomas Brudholm,Johannes Lang Pdf

A nuanced range of interdisciplinary perspectives on the role of emotions in moral and political reactions to mass violence.

Author : Philip G. Dwyer,Lyndall Ryan
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 9780857452993

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Theatres of Violence by Philip G. Dwyer,Lyndall Ryan Pdf

Massacres and mass killings have always marked if not shaped the history of the world and as such are subjects of increasing interest among historians. The premise underlying this collection is that massacres were an integral, if not accepted part (until quite recently) of warfare, and that they were often fundamental to the colonizing process in the early modern and modern worlds. Making a deliberate distinction between 'massacre' and 'genocide', the editors call for an entirely separate and new subject under the rubric of 'Massacre Studies', dealing with mass killings that are not genocidal in intent. This volume offers a reflection on the nature of mass killings and extreme violence across regions and across centuries, and brings together a wide range of approaches and case studies.

Author : Charles Stross
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2006-01-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1101208848

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The Atrocity Archives by Charles Stross Pdf

The first novel in Hugo Award-winning author Charles Stross's witty Laundry Files series. Bob Howard is a low-level techie working for a super-secret government agency. While his colleagues are out saving the world, Bob's under a desk restoring lost data. His world was dull and safe - but then he went and got Noticed. Now, Bob is up to his neck in spycraft, parallel universes, dimension-hopping terrorists, monstrous elder gods and the end of the world. Only one thing is certain: it will take more than a full system reboot to sort this mess out . . .