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Justice With A Vengeance: Retributive Desire In Popular Imagination, Cassandra Sharp
Justice With A Vengeance: Retributive Desire In Popular Imagination, Cassandra Sharp
Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts - Papers (Archive)
The punishment of criminal behaviour has always been a hot topic in popular culture. Whether in fictional crime dramas or in mainstream news coverage, issues of law, justice, and punishment are constantly being refracted and reframed in a myriad of ways. We seem to like watching criminals not only being caught but also receiving the punishment they deserve. We love it when Sherlock Holmes or Patrick Jayne solves the crime on fictional television, and too often we hear stories in the media of a victim’s family that is indignant and angry that the perpetrator is seemingly “getting away” with a …
The Dynamics Of Transitional Justice: International Models And Local Realities In East Timor, Charles Hawksley
The Dynamics Of Transitional Justice: International Models And Local Realities In East Timor, Charles Hawksley
Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts - Papers (Archive)
[extract] As Ruti Teitel has outlined, transitional justice can be seen as evolving in three phases. The first involved criminal trials, such as Nuremberg and Tokyo, which sought to hold individuals accountable for abuses of human rights during World War II, and this was buttressed by the development of various international legal instruments to protect rights which today constitute a central aspect of approaches to transitional justice. In the 1980s and 1990s a second phase of transitional justice occurred with post-dictatorship tribunals and bodies such as truth commissions, both of which 'thickened' transitional justice by introducing a restorative element. The …