Criminalizing Atrocity: The Global Spread of Criminal Laws Against International Crimes

by Mark S Berlin

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198850441
• ISBN13: 9780198850441
• Release Date: May 2020
• Publisher: Oxford University Press (UK)
• Length: 268 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.3"