Transitional Justice: Images and Memories (New Advances in Crime and Social Harm) - Softcover

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9781138256965: Transitional Justice: Images and Memories (New Advances in Crime and Social Harm)
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ISBN 10: 113825696X ISBN 13: 9781138256965
Publisher: Routledge, 2016

Synopsis

Transitional justice is usually associated with international criminal courts and tribunals, but criminal justice is merely one way of dealing with the legacy of conflict and atrocity. Justice is not only a matter of law. It is a process of making sense of the past and accepting the possibility of a shared future together, although perpetrators, victims and bystanders may have very different memories and perceptions, experiences and expectations.

This book goes further than providing a legal analysis of the effectiveness of transitional justice and presents a wider perspective. It is a critical appraisal of the different dimensions of the process of transitional justice that affects the imagery and constructions of past experiences and perceptions of conflict. Examining hidden histories of atrocities, public trials and memorialization, processes and rituals, artistic expressions and contradictory perceptions of past conflicts, the book constructs what transitional justice and the imagery involved can mean for a better understanding of the processes of justice, truth and reconciliation.

In transcending the legal, although by no means denying the significance of law, the book also represents a multidisciplinary, holistic approach to justice and includes contributions from criminal and international lawyers, cultural anthropologists, criminologists, political scientists and historians

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About the Author

Chrisje Brants, Professor of Criminal Law and Procedure; Antoine Hol, Professor of Jurisprudence and Legal Philosophy; Dina Siegel, Professor of Criminology, all at Utrecht University, The Netherlands.

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
2016
Language
English
ISBN 10 
113825696X
ISBN 13 
9781138256965
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
288
Editor
Brants Langeraar Chrisje

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