Sixty-Five Years of International Criminal Justice: The Facts and Figures

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Sixty-five years of international criminal justiceSmeulers, Alette; Hola, B.; van den Berg, T. General rightsCopyright and moral rights for the publications made accessible in the public portal are retained by the authors and/or other copyright owners and it is a condition of accessing publications that users recognise and abide by the legal requirements associated with these rights.-Users may download and print one copy of any publication from the public portal for the purpose of private study or research -You may not further distribute the material or use it for any profit-making activity or commercial gain -You may freely distribute the URL identifying the publication in the public portal Take down policy If you believe that this document breaches copyright, please contact us providing details, and we will remove access to the work immediately and investigate your claim. AbstractThe international criminal justice system comprises nine international criminal courts and tribunals; six are still operational and three have closed down. On average, they operated for almost nine years apiece and concluded 172 cases in which over 250 judges and 23 chief prosecutors were involved. All in all 745 suspects were indicted, 356 were actually tried and, of these, some 281 defendants were convicted. Currently 34 suspects are on trial and 22 are still at large. The 'average' convicted perpetrator is male, aged 40 and a member of a military or paramilitary organisation from Europe, Asia or Africa who is acting on behalf of his government. These are just some of the facts and figures which we present in this article: an overview of the empirical reality of the international criminal justice system which has currently been functioning for just over 65 years.

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“…According to a 2013 study by Alette Smeulers, Barbora Hola and Tom van den Berg, the average length of time between the issuance of the indictment and trial judgment at nine international(ized) criminal tribunals was 4.9 years, while the average trial length was 2.9 years. 119 This is not to say that international(ized) criminal trials take too long. Indeed, it has been argued that ICTs may be generally regarded as more 'efficient' given the complexity of the cases before them.…”

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“…The Preamble to the International Criminal Court (ICC) declares to recognize crimes that ‘threaten the peace, security and well-being of the world’, and are ‘determined to put an end to impunity for the perpetrators of such crimes and thus to contribute to the prevention of such crimes’, the crimes being genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes. 2 Besides the permanent ICC, nine international(ized) criminal courts have been operational on an ad hoc basis to deal with specific situations, such as the UN tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda (for an empirical overview see Smeulers et al., 2013).…”

Krisetilstanden i det internasjonale strafferettsprosjektet – en rettssosiologisk analyse

“…ikke straffer så mye. 58 Under mitt feltarbeid hadde ICC bare utgitt dom i en sak: Kongolesiske Thomas Lubanga ble dømt til 14 år for krigsforbrytelser og forbrytelser mot menneskeheten, og åtte av dem hadde han allerede sont. Som behandlet innledningsvis, har ICC i dag avsagt dom i sju straffesaker, hvor tre av dem er frikjent.…”

“…Foruten om ICC, er FNdomstolene for det tidligere Jugoslavia (ICTY) og Rwanda (ICTR) de mest kjente og betydningsfulle for utviklingen av det internasjonale strafferettsfeltet.22 Gyldendal forlag. For en empirisk oversikt over den internasjonale strafferettens «resultater» og «produkter», seSmeulers, A., et al (2013). "Sixty-Five Years of International Criminal Justice: The Facts and Figures."…”