Mass Atrocity, Collective Memory, and the Law

Herausgeber: Osiel, Mark J

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Trials of those responsible for large-scale state brutality have captured public imagination in several countries

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Revised edition
• Seitenzahl: 327
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. September 1999
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 230mm x 154mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 499g
• ISBN-13: 9780765806635
• ISBN-10: 0765806630
• Artikelnr.: 21848474

Autorenporträt

Michael Curtis

Inhaltsangabe

I: How Prosecution Assists Collective Memory and How Memory Furthers Social Solidarity
Introduction
1: Crime, Consensus, and Solidarity
2: Solidarity Through Civil Dissensus
II: Legal S haping of Collective Memory : Six Obstacles
3: Defendants' Rights, National Narrative, and Liberal Memory
4: Losing Perspective, Distorting History
5: Legal Judgment As Precedent and Analogy
6: Breaking with the Past, Through Guilt and Repentance
7: Constructing Memory with Legal Blueprints?
8: Making Public Memory, Publicly
Conclusion