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Victims and international criminal justice: a vexed question?
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 13 October 2008
Abstract
Despite the growing attention being paid to “victims” in the framework of criminal proceedings, this attention does not seem to be meeting their needs under either national criminal justice systems or the international regime. In the latter, the difficulties encountered by the victims are aggravated by factors specifically arising from the prosecution and punishment of mass crimes at international level. This has prompted the authors to point out that the prime purpose of criminal law is to convict or acquit the accused, and to suggest that the task of attending to the victims should perhaps be left to other entities.
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- International Review of the Red Cross , Volume 90 , Issue 870: Sanctions , June 2008 , pp. 441 - 459
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- Copyright © International Committee of the Red Cross 2008
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