![]() | Defendants and Victims in International Criminal Justice: Ensuring and Balancing Their Rights Subjects: Law; Politics & International Relations; Social Sciences; Public Law; Criminal Law & Practice; Human Rights Law & Civil Liberties; Criminology - Law; International Law - Law; Jurisprudence & General Issues; International Relations; Criminology and Criminal Justice; Civil Procedure; Criminal Justice - Criminology; International Criminal Law; Public International Law; Comparative Law; Jurisprudence & Philosophy of Law; International Organizations; International Law; Criminal Justice; Victims and Victimology; Criminology and Law; This volume considers a variety of key issues pertaining to the rights of defendants and victims at International Criminal Courts (ICTs) and explores how best to balance and enhance the rights of both in order to ensure the effectiveness and efficiency of international criminal proceedings. The rights of victims are becoming an increasingly important issue at ICTs. Yet, at the same time, this has to be achieved without having a detrimental impact upon on the rights of the defence and the efficiency of the courts. This book provides analyses of issues on the rights of both the accused and the victims. By discussing matters concerning these two pivotal actors in international criminal justice within the same volume, the work highlights that there are intrinsic and intense conflicting and converging relationships between victims and the accused, particularly in terms of their rights. While most of the chapters focus mainly on either the accused or the victims, others discuss both at the same time. The work strikes a fine balance between, on the one hand, classic topics on the rights of the accused and the rights of the victims and, on the other, topics which have been largely unexplored and/or which require new angles or perspectives. Additionally, there are some chapters which approach both the rights of the accused and the rights of the victims in new contexts and/or under novel perspectives. The book as a whole provides a discussion of the two sides of this important coin of international criminal justice. Dr Juan Pablo Pérez-León-Acevedo, Pluricourts, Faculty of Law, University of Oslo, Norway. Dr Joanna Nicholson, Pluricourts, University of Oslo, Norway. |
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