1st Edition

Victims, Atrocity and International Criminal Justice Lessons from Cambodia

By Rachel Killean Copyright 2018
254 Pages
by Routledge

254 Pages
by Routledge

254 Pages
by Routledge

While international criminal courts have often been declared as bringing ‘justice’ to victims, their procedures and outcomes historically showed little reflection of the needs and interests of victims themselves. This situation has changed significantly over the last sixty years; victims are increasingly acknowledged as having various ‘rights’, while their need for justice has been deployed as a... Read more

1. Introduction

2. Victimology, Victims’ Rights and the Politicised Victim

3. Compromised Justice: The Road to the ECCC

4. Judicial Policy Making and the Shaping of Civil Party Participation

5. Practitioner Perspectives on Working for and with Victims

6. Professionalised Civil Society and the Civil Party System

7. Civil Parties, Justice and Legitimacy at the ECCC

8. Conclusion

Biography

Rachel Killean is a lecturer at Queen’s University Belfast