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Victims and the International Criminal Court

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Victims and the ICC

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This entry reviews the treatment of victims in the International Criminal Court, including the victims’ participation and reparation regime; the establishment of a Trust Fund for Victims, the institution of an office of Public Counsel for Victims, state cooperation procedures, and relevant jurisprudence.

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The treatment of victims in the International Criminal Court (ICC) represents a substantial innovation in the field of victims’ redress under international law. It marks a significant departure from traditional interstate approaches to individual claims for breach of an international legal obligation based on classical principles of state responsibility, towards a more comprehensive regime in which individual victims have a right under international law to seek and obtain reparations directly from individuals found responsible for genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity, or the crime of aggression. Unlike the Nuremberg and Tokyo...

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Recommended Reading and References

  • Bottigliero I (2004) Redress for victims of crimes under international law. Martinus Nijhoff, The Hague

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  • International Criminal Court, http://www.icc-cpi.int

  • Schabas W (2004) An introduction to the international criminal court, 2nd edn. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

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  • Sunga LS (1997) The emerging system of international criminal law: developments in codification and implementation. Kluwer Law International, The Hague

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  • Trust Fund for Victims, http://www.trustfundforvictims.org/

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  1. International Development Law Organization (IDLO), Viale Vaticano 106, 00165, Rome, Italy

    Ilaria Bottigliero

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  1. Ilaria Bottigliero
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  1. Netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime and Law Enforcement (NSCR), Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Gerben Bruinsma

  2. VU University Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Gerben Bruinsma

  3. Department of Criminology, Law and Society, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, USA

    David Weisburd

  4. Faculty of Law, The Hebrew University, Mt. Scopus, Jerusalem, Israel

    David Weisburd

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Bottigliero, I. (2014). Victims and the International Criminal Court. In: Bruinsma, G., Weisburd, D. (eds) Encyclopedia of Criminology and Criminal Justice. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-5690-2_326

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