War Crimes, Democracy, and the Rule of Law in Belgrade, the Former Yugoslavia, and Beyond

Bibliographic Data

ID9767633
AuthorsJ Hagan (0000-0002-4262-9822, American Bar Foundation, corresponding author), Sanja Kutnjak Ivković (0000-0003-0709-5404, College of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the Florida State University)
Year2006
Volume605
Issue1
Pages129-151
Publication date2006-05-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueThe Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0002-7162 • E-ISSN: 1552-3349
PublisherSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/0002716206287088
OpenAlexW2151512792
LanguageEN
Citations received15
References cited25

The creation and operation of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) is an advance in the rule of law and arguably part of a larger process of the globalization of democratic norms. Yet support for the ICTY is increasingly influenced by local processes in which these norms are contested by indigenous parties and forces. We explore this issue with regard to support of Serbs living in and outside of Serbia for the ICTY in comparison to local courts. Serbs in Belgrade are distinctive in insisting that war criminals be tried in their places of origin, while Serbs in Sarajevo and Vukovar agree with other groups in these settings that war criminals should be tried in the locations where their crimes occurred. This is compelling evidence of the localized influence of cultural norms on ethnic and national group members in post-war crime settings

Criminology · Democracy · Ethnic group · Indigenous · International law · Political science · Politics · Rule of law · Sociology · Spanish Civil War · Tribunal · War crime · Gender, Security, and Conflict · International Law and Human Rights · Judicial and Constitutional Studies · Law