Criminal justice for international crimes: Perspectives of the accused at the ICTR and selected national jurisdictions

Scalia, Damien;Devresse, Marie-Sophie
(2014) American Society of Criminology, Criminology at the Intersections of Oppression — Location: San Francisco (19.November.2014)

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How do individuals accused of international crimes by national or international criminal tribunals perceive these judicial institutions and their functioning, both in terms of legal procedures and outcomes? Although this issue is of utmost importance to assess the overall legitimacy of criminal justice systems that deal with international crimes, it has remained conspicuously absent from the mainstream research agenda relating to transitional justice. We will present the main findings deriving from a unique set of face-to-face interviews with persons accused by the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (and compare them with the ICT Yugoslavia) on the one hand, and persons accused by some national jurisdictions dealing with international crimes through universal jurisdiction laws on the other hand. We report on the most salient elements of the perceptions of both the acquitted and sentenced persons in order to evaluate the judicial processes in general terms. By doing so, we purport to deepen our understanding of the personal experiences and their consequences relating to the justice systems at the national and international levels.
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Scalia, D., & Devresse, M.-S. (2014). Criminal justice for international crimes: Perspectives of the accused at the ICTR and selected national jurisdictions. American Society of Criminology, Criminology at the Intersections of Oppression, San Francisco. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/274481