Pub Date : 2022-11-09DOI: 10.1007/s11572-022-09648-2
Ruairi Maguire
In this paper I argue that when states commit, assist, or culpably fail to prevent crimes against humanity against their own people, they should, subsequently, have primacy in prosecuting those crimes. They have a presumptive right (and duty) to punish perpetrators, and so a claim against third parties not to do so. In contrast to those who emphasise the importance of national sovereignty, I set out a victim-centred justification for this claim. I argue that victims of crimes against humanity, and members of groups that have been targeted for these crimes, have a special interest in having their status as members of their political community re-affirmed. Punishment by their state of war-related crimes against them has the expressive function of re-affirming their status as equal members of their national community, and the state’s commitment to protecting their rights. I set out some reasons to think that this is valuable for victims and members of targeted groups. These interests, I argue, are weighty enough to ground the primacy of states in prosecution.
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Pub Date : 2022-10-15DOI: 10.1007/s11572-022-09647-3
Hadassa Noorda
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Pub Date : 2022-08-26DOI: 10.1007/s11572-022-09638-4
L. Alexander, Kimberly Kessler Ferzan
{"title":"A Reply to Our Critics","authors":"L. Alexander, Kimberly Kessler Ferzan","doi":"10.1007/s11572-022-09638-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11572-022-09638-4","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45447,"journal":{"name":"Criminal Law and Philosophy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2022-08-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48731054","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-08-03DOI: 10.1007/s11572-022-09645-5
J. Bowen
{"title":"Correction to: Review of Alec D. Walen The Mechanics of Claims and Permissible Killing in War (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019)","authors":"J. Bowen","doi":"10.1007/s11572-022-09645-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11572-022-09645-5","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45447,"journal":{"name":"Criminal Law and Philosophy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2022-08-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43248719","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-07-18DOI: 10.1007/s11572-022-09644-6
H. Hanafy
{"title":"The Justification of Punishment in Authoritarian States","authors":"H. Hanafy","doi":"10.1007/s11572-022-09644-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11572-022-09644-6","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45447,"journal":{"name":"Criminal Law and Philosophy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2022-07-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48632656","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-07-13DOI: 10.1007/s11572-022-09643-7
J. Quong
{"title":"The Morality of Defensive Force: Replies to Otsuka, Frowe, Fabre, and Burri","authors":"J. Quong","doi":"10.1007/s11572-022-09643-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11572-022-09643-7","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45447,"journal":{"name":"Criminal Law and Philosophy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2022-07-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44429255","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-07-08DOI: 10.1007/s11572-022-09640-w
M. Betzler
{"title":"The Right to Associational Freedom and the Scope of Relationship-Dependent Duties","authors":"M. Betzler","doi":"10.1007/s11572-022-09640-w","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11572-022-09640-w","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45447,"journal":{"name":"Criminal Law and Philosophy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2022-07-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47792042","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-06-25DOI: 10.1007/s11572-022-09637-5
C. Bennett
{"title":"Review of Stephen P. Garvey, Guilty Acts, Guilty Minds (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020)","authors":"C. Bennett","doi":"10.1007/s11572-022-09637-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11572-022-09637-5","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45447,"journal":{"name":"Criminal Law and Philosophy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2022-06-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47417349","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-06-25DOI: 10.1007/s11572-022-09641-9
C. Calhoun
{"title":"Social Connections, Social Contributions, and Why They Matter: Comments on Being Sure of Each Other","authors":"C. Calhoun","doi":"10.1007/s11572-022-09641-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11572-022-09641-9","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45447,"journal":{"name":"Criminal Law and Philosophy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2022-06-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47564008","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-06-15DOI: 10.1007/s11572-022-09636-6
Dennis Patterson
{"title":"Correction to: Inert","authors":"Dennis Patterson","doi":"10.1007/s11572-022-09636-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11572-022-09636-6","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45447,"journal":{"name":"Criminal Law and Philosophy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2022-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47608972","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}