Sights, Sounds, and Sensibilities of Atrocity Prosecutions.

• Superior document: Studies in International Criminal Law Series ; v.06
• Author: Drumbl, Mark A.
• TeilnehmendeR: Fournet, Caroline.
• Place / Publishing House: Boston : : BRILL,, 2024.; ©2024.
• Year of Publication: 2024
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in International Criminal Law Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (558 pages)

This book explores how international criminal justice interacts with the human senses - sight, sound, smell, taste, and touch - when it comes to perceiving mass atrocity and thereafter holding perpetrators accountable.

Table of Contents

• Front Cover
• Half Title
• Series Information
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Acknowledgements
• Figures
• Notes on Contributors
• Introduction
• 1 Genealogy: Coming of Age to Here and Now
• 2 Looking Intensely at Simulation, Translation, and Projection
• 3 A Note on Aesthetics
• 4 This Book: Structure, Threads, and Themes
• 4.1 Part 1 Shows and Cases: Showcasing(s) in the Courtroom
• 4.2 Part 2 Translating the Senses into Law and Judgment
• 4.3 Part 3 Filtering the Sensory: Language, Evidence, Culture, and Procedure
• 4.4 Part 4 Staging, Re-enactment, Film
• 4.5 Part 5 Sensibility Divides: North-South, Imperial-Colonized, State-Society
• 4.6 Part 6 Reflections on Aesthetics and Methods
• 5 Closing While Opening
• Part 1 Shows and Cases: Showcasing(s) in the Courtroom
• Chapter 1 Optical Allusions, Indecency, and Injustice in the Trial of Japanese War Criminals
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Once Were Warriors? Here Be Dragons?
• 3 Aesthetical Disorder, Allegorical Dissonance
• 4 Over Promise, Under Deliver
• 5 Conclusion: Time, a Wasting
• Acknowledgements
• Chapter 2 'The Show Must Go On': : The Trials and Tribulations of Ludmila Brožová-Polednová
• 1 Introduction
• 2 The Rise and Fall of Communists in Czechoslovakia
• 3 Ludmila Brožová-Polednová: Actress, Prosecutor and Criminal
• 4 Ludmila's 'Role' of a Lifetime
• 5 Ludmila's 'Finale'
• 6 Conclusion: Show Trials Then and Now
• Acknowledgements
• Chapter 3 Atrocity Then, Trial Now: : The Aesthetics, Acoustics, and Visualities of Prosecuting Oskar Gröning
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Prosecuting 'the Small Cog in the Gears'
• 2.1 Gröning: The 'Bookkeeper' of Auschwitz
• 2.2 Gröning after Demjanjuk
• 2.3 Gröning on Trial
• 3 The Visualities and Vocalities of Gröning's Trial
• 4 A Tale of Three Accusers, and Their Differences.
• 5 Concluding by Counterfactual: The Aesthetics of Silence amid Bee-Keeping and Book-Keeping
• Acknowledgements
• Chapter 4 Performing Justice: The Trial of Bruno Dey and Its Protagonists
• 1 Introduction and Methodology
• 2 Background
• 3 The Director
• 4 Villain or Victim?
• 5 The Heroes
• 6 Hidden Protagonists
• 7 The Extras
• 8 Conclusion
• 9 Epilogue
• Part 2 Translating the Senses into Law and Judgment
• Chapter 5 Does Music Create Killers?: The Role of Music in the Commission of Violent Crimes
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Marching Drums
• 2.1 Music as a Stimulator of Courage and Perseverance
• 2.2 Musical Sadism
• 3 A 'One-Man-Army'
• 3.1 Breivik's Musical Influences: 'The Best and Most Talented Patriotic Musician'
• 3.2 In Preparation to 'Fight'
• 3.2.1 Building Confidence and Suppression of Fear
• 3.2.2 Conditioning Body and Mind
• 4 Music on Trial at the ICTR
• 4.1 The 'Offending' Songs
• 5 Conclusion
• Chapter 6 The Stench of Death: The Olfactory of Genocide in International Criminal Trials
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Smell as a Lower Sense
• 3 Olfactory Testimonies of Genocide
• 4 The Stench of Decomposition: Memories of Rotting Bodies
• 5 A Lingering and Persisting Stench
• 6 Power and Killing at Roadblocks
• 7 Hiding from the Génocidaires
• 8 Killings at Hospitals
• 9 Fear of Contamination and Epidemics
• 10 Stench as a Legal Element
• 10.1 A Tug of War between Visual and Olfactory Impressions
• 10.2 Ignoring Stench as Incitement to Genocide?
• 11 Killings in Churches
• 12 '[I]‌t Was a Study of Horror'
• 12.1 Smoking Cigars in UNAMIR Helicopters
• 12.2 A Constant Flow of Bodies
• 13 Few and Far between: Prosecutorial References to Stench
• 14 Smelling Dirty: Stench Unrelated to Death
• 15 Implications of Stench on Reconciliation
• 16 Conclusion.
• Chapter 7 The Sound and Taste of Atrocities: From Cambodia in the 1970s to Bosnia and Herzegovina in the 1990s
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Adducing Witness Testimony
• 3 Setting the Cases in their Historical Context
• 4 The Significance of the Sound and Taste of Atrocities
• 4.1 Proving Murder, Extermination, and Genocide: Revolutionary Music and the Sound of Silence
• 4.2 Proving Persecution: Eating of Pork and Nationalistic Songs
• 4.3 Proving Terrorisation and Forcible Transfer: The Screams of a Slaughtered Pig
• 4.4 Proving Individual Criminal Responsibility
• 5 Sensory Interference: Memory and Time, Language and Interpretation
• 5.1 Memory and Time: Assessing Credibility and Weighing Testimony
• 5.2 Language and Interpretation
• 6 Conclusion
• Chapter 8 The Age-Impunity Rhetoric in Trials for Crimes Committed during the Argentine Genocide (1975-1983)
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Rhetoric of Age-Impunity from the Unseen
• 3 Rhetoric Age-Impunity from the Seen: The Formula of Martyrdom
• 4 Rhetoric Age-Impunity from the Unseen
• 5 Conclusion
• Part 3 Filtering the Sensory: Language, Evidence, Culture, and Procedure
• Chapter 9 Sounds of Atrocity Prosecutions: Intersubjective Interpreting as a Key Ingredient for Effective and Fair Trials in Multilingual and Multicultural War Crimes Courtrooms
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Identifying Sources of Poor Intersubjectivity in Multilinguistic and Multicultural Trials
• 3 Thinking Differently in Different Languages: Biases Affecting the Quality of Intersubjectivity
• 4 Different Interpretation Standards Produce Different Sounds of Atrocity Prosecutions
• 5 Language Rights, Intersubjectivity and Effective Fair Trial Guarantees
• 6 Conclusion
• Chapter 10 The Mind's Eye: The Invisibility of Culture in Individual Criminal Responsibility
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Culture in International Criminal Trials.
• 3 The Constitutive Role of Culture in Individual Culpability
• 4 Using Culture to (De)Construct the Defendant
• 5 Conclusions
• Chapter 11 Versions of the Truth: Disinformation and Prosecuting Atrocities
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Digital Evidence and Manipulation
• 3 Sights: Can We Believe Our Eyes?
• 4 Authenticity, Voices and Visuals
• 5 In the Minds of Judges
• 6 Sounds of Evidence
• 7 Humanity and the Machine
• 8 Conclusion
• Chapter 12 Putting Things in Play: The Spectacle of Criminal Justice
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Artistic International Law
• 2.1 The Turn to Aesthetics
• 2.2 Trials as Theatre
• 3 Representation at Trial
• 4 Putting Things in Play
• 5 Conclusion
• Part 4 Staging, Re-enactment, Film
• Chapter 13 A Trial without a Defendant: The Mock Trial of Dr. Josef Mengele in Jerusalem
• 1 Introduction
• 2 The State of Israel vs. Josef Mengele: A Public Hearing or a Quasi-criminal Proceeding?
• 3 'A Reminder Shall Come out of Jerusalem'
• 4 'I Swore to My Mother That One Day, I Would Take Revenge on Dr. Mengele'
• 5 Conclusion
• Acknowledgements
• Chapter 14 Reconstructing the Crime: : Memory, Re-enactments, and Space in Atrocity Investigations
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Reconstructions in Law
• 3 Materiality: Walking through the Site
• 4 Testimony in Words and Body
• 5 Creating Evidence for the Future
• 6 Conclusion
• Acknowledgements
• Chapter 15 Staging Atrocity Prosecutions: Re-enactments and Pre-enactments of Atrocity Trials in Theatre
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Peter Weiss: Die Ermittlung. Oratorium in 11 Gesängen (1965)
• 3 Milo Rau: The Congo Tribunal (2015)
• 4 Rainald Goetz: Reich des Todes (2020)
• 5 Conclusion
• Chapter 16 Entertaining Selectivity: 'Narcos', Netflix, and International Crimes
• 1 Introduction: Entertaining Selectivity and Entertaining Images.
• 2 Theoretical Footholds: Translating between Culture, Crime, and Law
• 2.1 The Translation of Ideas across Epistemological Boundaries
• 2.2 Cultural Criminology
• 3 Reflections of Selectivity in Narco-entertainment
• 3.1 What Is the 'War on Drugs'? What Is a 'Drug War'?
• 3.2 'Child-Soldiers' and 'Cartels'
• 3.3 'Armed Attack' by 'Organized Groups'
• 4 Conclusion: Narco-culture, Entertainment, Politics and Criminal Justice
• Acknowledgements
• Part 5 Sensibility Divides: North-South, Imperial-Colonized, State-Society
• Chapter 17 Hearing Voices: Victim and Witness Demographics at the International Criminal Court
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Demographics and the Evolving Role of Victims and Witnesses in the ICC's Proceedings
• 2.1 Witnesses
• 2.2 Victims
• 3 The Significance of Victim and Witness Demographics for the Goals of International Criminal Justice
• 3.1 Fact-Finding and History-Telling
• 3.2 Expressivism
• 3.3 Restorative Justice
• 4 Whose Voices Are Heard?
• 5 Reconciling Publication of Data with Victim and Witness Protection
• 6 Conclusion
• Chapter 18 Ugly Atrocities, Cathartic Prosecutions: International Criminal Law as Emotional Salve
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Horrific Atrocities
• 3 Cathartic Prosecutions
• 4 Concluding Thoughts
• Chapter 19 Appropriating Sovereignty through Trials: British Imperial Expansion and Staging of Oppression through Law
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Zafar, 'a Beast in a Cage': The Person
• 2.1 Zafar's Role in the Revolt
• 2.2 Zafar's Arrest
• 3 Red Fort: The Place
• 4 'A Solemn Farce': The Trial
• 5 Afterwards and Afterwords: Zafar in 'Our' Memory
• 6 Trial of Tikendrajit Singh: Contrast and Continuity
• 7 Conclusion
• Acknowledgements
• Chapter 20 'Protecting the Environment Is Not Illegal': Ecological Activism, the Visualities of Law and Justice, and the Land Concession Crisis in Cambodia.
• 1 Introduction.