Judging state-sponsored violence, imagining political change [electronic resource] / Bronwyn Anne Leebaw.
Material type: TextPublication details: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011Description: xi, 210 pISBN: 9781139080408 (electronic bk.)Subject(s): International police | Transitional justice | Political violence | Crimes against humanity | Intervention (International law) | Truth commissions -- South Africa -- History | War crime trials -- Germany -- NurembergGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 342.08 LOC classification: KZ6374 | .L44 2011Online resources: Click to ViewIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction: transitional justice and the 'gray zone'; 2. Human rights legalism and the legacy of Nuremberg; 3. A different kind of justice: South Africa's alternative to legalism; 4. Political judgment and transitional justice: actors and spectators; 5. Rethinking restorative justice; 6. Remembering resistance; 7. Conclusion: the shadows of the past.
"This book offers a new way to think about the legacies of the Nuremberg Trials and South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission, which transformed the theory and practice of transitional justice"-- Provided by publisher.
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
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