1st Edition

International Practices of Criminal Justice Social and legal perspectives

Edited By Mikkel Christensen, Ron Levi Copyright 2018
    294 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
    by Routledge

    294 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
    by Routledge

    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.

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

    Mikkel Jarle Christensen and Ron Levi

    Part I

    1. Reunited Europe and the internationalization of criminal law: the creation and circulation of criminal law as an international governance tool

    MIKKEL JARLE CHRISTENSEN

    2.Displacing and replacing the criminal law within the European space

    ANTOINE MÉGIE

    3. The transformation of legal ideas: the globalization and politicization of transitional justice in the Middle East

    JAMIE ROWEN

    4. The global governance of transnational crime: implications for justice and the rule of law

    VALSAMIS MITSILEGAS

    Part II

    5. Prosecutorial strategies and opening statements: justifying international prosecutions from the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg through to the International Criminal Court

    RON LEVI, SARA DEZALAY AND MICHAEL AMIRASLANI

    6. Red Notices and transnational police practices

    NICOLA LANGILLE AND FRÉDÉRIC MÉGRET

    7. Trading on guilt: the judicial logic of plea bargains at the ICTY and its transplant to Serbia and Bosnia

    KERSTIN BREE CARLSON

    8. The making of international criminal justice: towards a sociology of the ‘legal field’

    KIRSTEN CAMPBELL

    9. Extracurricular international criminal law

    MARK A. DRUMBL

    Part III

    10. Criminal investigation and prosecution by a European public prosecutor’s office in the EU: shared enforcement without procedural safeguards and judicial protection?

    MICHIEL LUCHTMAN AND JOHN VERVAELE

    11. Virtual trials revisited: the shifting politics of state cooperation from the UN ad hoc tribunals to the International Criminal Court

    VICTOR PESKIN

    12. Rwanda’s Kabgayi Trial between international justice and national reconciliation

    SIGALL HOROVITZ

    13. As the pendulum swings – the revival of the hybrid tribunal

    MARK KERSTEN

    Index

    Biography

    Mikkel Jarle Christensen is Associate Professor at the Danish National Research Foundation’s Centre of Excellence for International Courts (iCourts), Faculty of Law, University of Copenhagen.

    Ron Levi is the George Ignatieff Chair of Peace and Conflict Studies, Deputy Director of the Munk School of Global Affairs, and Associate Professor of Global Affairs and Sociology at the University of Toronto. He is also cross-appointed in the Faculty of Law, the Departments of Political Science, and the Centre for Criminology & Sociolegal Studies.