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Williams, Andrew (2019) Atrocity and the pain in law. In: Jung, Berenike and Bruzzi, Stella, (eds.) Beyond the Rhetoric of Pain. Warwick Series in the Humanities . London: Routledge, pp. 51-68. ISBN 9780429397851
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429397851-4
Abstract
This chapter argues that modern law and its systems have become instrumental in the recognition of, and response to suffering endured as a result of injury deliberately inflicted or because of failures to act. It focuses on an area of modern international law that purports to address the most egregious forms of the deliberate infliction of suffering on human beings: what is often called ‘atrocity’ in the contemporary development of the laws of war and what has become known as international criminal law. The term ‘atrocity’ indicates a monstrous act of cruelty which is self-evidently wrong, self-evidently beyond what is generally acceptable even in the violence of wartime. Sexual violence in war has been identified by the International Criminal Court as a crime to be given specific attention; the legal provisions are ambiguous in how serious they reflect the determination.
Item Type: | Book Item | ||||
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Subjects: | K Law [Moys] > KC International Law | ||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Law | ||||
Series Name: | Warwick Series in the Humanities | ||||
Publisher: | Routledge | ||||
Place of Publication: | London | ||||
ISBN: | 9780429397851 | ||||
Book Title: | Beyond the Rhetoric of Pain | ||||
Editor: | Jung, Berenike and Bruzzi, Stella | ||||
Official Date: | 3 January 2019 | ||||
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Page Range: | pp. 51-68 | ||||
DOI: | 10.4324/9780429397851-4 | ||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||
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