2006, ISBN: 9780415544900

New. This book highlights the continuing impunity enjoyed by corporations for large scale crimes, and in particular the crime of toxic waste dumping in Ivory Coast in 2006. It provides a… Meer...

New. This book highlights the continuing impunity enjoyed by corporations for large scale crimes, and in particular the crime of toxic waste dumping in Ivory Coast in 2006. It provides an account of the crime, and outlines contributory reasons for the impunity both under the law and from a criminological point of view. Furthermore, the book reveals the retrogressive role of civil society organisations (CSOs) in Ivory coast, contrary to the societal expectations made of 'non-governmental' organisations (NGOs) and CSOs. This book reveals that in the case of this particular example of state-corporate crime, civil society as an agency of censure and sanction actually played a distinctly retrogressive role. Here, in fact, state and state-corporate crime facilitates corruption within the civil society sphere through a process referred to in the book as the 'commodification of victimhood' and, as a result, ensures that impunity is virtually guaranteed for the corporation and the Ivorian government. This book also examines the failure of international and domestic legal measures to sanction the perpetrators alongside civil society's shortcomings and ultimately advocates a more cautionary approach to civil society's potential to label, censure and sanction large-scale state-corporate crime. This book will help readers understand the difficulties in sanctioning such crime as well as promoting the theoretical framework of state crime, the understanding of which could lead to the alleviation of human suffering at the hands of criminal states and corporations., 6, Paperback / softback. New. This major new study examines the developing practice of universal jurisdiction, as well as the broader phenomenon of &quot;globalizing&quot; justice, and its ramifications. With a detailed overview of the contemporary practice of universal jurisdiction, it discerns three trends at work: pure universal jurisdiction, universal jurisdiction &quot;plus&quot;, and non-use. It also argues that these disparities in practice should raise serious concerns as to the legitimacy and perceived legitimacy of such globalized justice. It then turns to a further consideration, that of globalized justice, precisely because it takes place far from the locus of the crime, and is therefore &quot;externalized&quot; and may fail to achieve many of its putative goals. In addition, this is a key assessment of civil accountability, through the use of the Alien Tort Claims Act in the United States. It details how the use of civil penalties may offer new avenues for redress, particularly with relation to group accountability, whether that of armed groups or of corporations. However, it balances this approach to accountability with recognition of certain flaws within externalized criminal accountability. This study also focuses on mixed tribunals, or other methods of internationalized justice as viable alternatives, which may avoid some of the problems with external justice, but are themselves far from perfect. Mixed or hybrid tribunals in East Timor and Sierra Leone represent different models of hybrid justice and provide the reader with excellent examples of these new forms of justice in action. This book will be of great interest to all students and scholars of human rights international law and political science., 6<

2009, ISBN: 9780415544900

Routledge, Taschenbuch, 208 Seiten, Publiziert: 2009-04-30T00:00:01Z, Produktgruppe: Book, 0.65 kg, Recht, Kategorien, Bücher, Sozialwissenschaft, Staatsführung, Politikwissenschaft, Fach… Meer...

Routledge, Taschenbuch, 208 Seiten, Publiziert: 2009-04-30T00:00:01Z, Produktgruppe: Book, 0.65 kg, Recht, Kategorien, Bücher, Sozialwissenschaft, Staatsführung, Politikwissenschaft, Fachbücher, Militärgeschichte, Geschichte nach Themen, Politik & Geschichte, Terrorismus & Extremismus, Gow, James, Kerr, Rachel, Routledge, 2009<

ISBN: 9780415544900

Paperback, [PU: Taylor & Francis Ltd], This major new study examines the developing practice of universal jurisdiction, as well as the broader phenomenon of "globalizing" justice, and its… Meer...

Paperback, [PU: Taylor & Francis Ltd], This major new study examines the developing practice of universal jurisdiction, as well as the broader phenomenon of "globalizing" justice, and its ramifications., International Law<

2010, ISBN: 9780415544900

A Revolution in Accountability, Buch, Softcover, [PU: Routledge], Routledge, 2010