Breaking the Cycle of Mass Atrocities

Marina Aksenova is Professor of Comparative and International Criminal Law at IE University in Madrid.Elies van Sliedregt is Professor of International and Comparative Criminal Law at Leeds University.Stephan Parmentier is Professor of Criminal Law and Criminology at KU Leuven.

• PART ICYCLE OF MASS ATROCITIES1. Introduction: Breaking the Cycle of Mass Atrocities: Criminological and Socio-Legal Approaches to International Criminal Law Marina Aksenova2. The Biology and Psychology of Atrocity and the Erasure of Memory Christopher HardingPART IICRIMINALISATION3. International Criminalisation as a Pragmatic Institutional Process: The Cases of Dominic Ongwen at the International Criminal Court and Thomas Kwoyelo at the International Crimes Division in the Situationin Uganda Matilde Gawronski4. Solidarity as a Moral and Legal Basis for Crimes Against Humanity: A Durkheimian Perspective Marina AksenovaPART IIITRIAL AND PUNISHMENT5. The Hybrid System of International Criminal Law: A Work in Progress or Just a Noble Experiment? Colleen Rohan6. Agents and Agency in International Criminal Law: Intent and the ‘Special Part’ of International Criminal Law Kerstin Bree Carlson7. Punishment in Transition: Empirical Comparison of Post-Genocide Sentencing Practices in Rwandan Domestic Courts and at the ICTR Barbora Holá and Amani ChibashimbaPART IVRE-ENTRY OF VICTIMS AND PERPETRATORS8. Not in Our Name! Visions of Community in International Criminal Justice Milena Tripkovic9. Explaining (Away) Individual Agency: A Criminological Take on Direct Perpetrator Re-Presentations at the ICTY Anette Bringedal HougePART VPREVENTION10. Social Identity and International Crimes: Legitimate and Problematic Aspects of the ‘Ordinary People’ Hypothesis Stefan Harrendorf11. Regional Criminal Justice, Corporate Criminal Liability and the Need for Non-Doctrinal Research Elies van SliedregtEPILOGUE12. Breaking the Cycle of Collective Violence: International Criminal Law’s Contribution Harmen van der Wilt

Breaking the Cycle of Mass Atrocities is a welcome addition to the literature, and should be of interest to scholars and students interested in socio-legal approaches to international criminal law.