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  • After Justice Has Been Done: The Benefit of Hindsight: Foreword

    Author(s)
    Brants, Chrisje
    Karstedt, Susanne
    Griffith University Author(s)
    Karstedt, Susanne
    Year published
    2015
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    Abstract
    The international legal and political community stresses the role of international criminal trials in providing justice in the wake of atrocity. A criminal trial of those most responsible, it is maintained, will end impunity, provide retribution, bring justice to victims and give them a voice, contribute to a collective memory that will make reconciliation possible, and therefore (re-)establish the conditions for a better and peaceful future in which all can share. It is in this sense that trials are part of what is widely understood as transitional justice, but that does not mean that we can equate justice with the outcome ...
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    The international legal and political community stresses the role of international criminal trials in providing justice in the wake of atrocity. A criminal trial of those most responsible, it is maintained, will end impunity, provide retribution, bring justice to victims and give them a voice, contribute to a collective memory that will make reconciliation possible, and therefore (re-)establish the conditions for a better and peaceful future in which all can share. It is in this sense that trials are part of what is widely understood as transitional justice, but that does not mean that we can equate justice with the outcome of a criminal trial. That would be to use the word in its most narrow sense, to endow it with the broadest of optimistic connotations and thereby create expectations that are impossible to meet. Bringing the offender to justice is part, but only part, of doing justice to feelings, perceptions, expectations and emotions about what is just.
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    Journal Title
    Journal of International Criminal Justice
    Volume
    13
    Issue
    4
    DOI
    https://doi.org/10.1093/jicj/mqv039
    Subject
    Law
    Social Sciences
    Government & Law
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/398624
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