International Tribunals for Transnational Crimes: Towards a Transnational Criminal Court?

• Published in: Criminal law forum Vol. 23; no. 4; pp. 295 - 318
• Main Author: Boister, Neil
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht Springer Netherlands 01.12.2012; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Comparative Law; Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure Law; Criminal offences; Extradition; Genocide; Human rights; International & Foreign Law; International crime; International Economics; International law; Jurisdiction; Law; Law and Criminology; Offenders; Private International Law; Prosecution; Public International Law; Terrorism; Rome Statute; Security Council; International Criminal; International Tribunal; International Criminal Court

The negotiation of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court was initiated not by states eager to remove impunity for core international crimes such as genocide or crimes against humanity, but by small states that wanted an international tribunal to try drug trafficking offences. Their mo...