Mikkel Jarle Christensen – författare

The Sites of Justice in International Criminal Law introduces the concept of 'sites of justice': localized organizations where the everyday work of international criminal justice takes place. These sites span activities from fact-finding and evidence-gathering to prosecution and adjudication, as well as victims' support, and legal, political, and public mobilization. They include a wide range of actors, from institutions such as the International Criminal Court (ICC) to NGOs and civil society organizations, law firms, think tanks, investigative mechanisms, specialized media outlets, and academic research centres.Distributed across the globe, some operate close to the locations where international crimes occurred, while others function at a distance, for instance in hubs like The Hague. No single site can realize international criminal justice independently; rather, these organizations and their agents rely on interconnected relationships to produce meaningful outcomes.Focusing on the spatial dynamics and global interdependencies of these sites and their actors, the volume examines the opportunities and constraints they encounter in pursuing international criminal justice. It does so through detailed study of sites and agents active in contexts shaped by major past and ongoing conflicts, including Kenya, Palestine, Israel, and Russia. By situating these cases within the broader landscape of atrocity crimes accountability, it offers innovative theoretical and empirical insights into how international criminal justice operates in practice^—and why it so often falls short of its aspirations. Ultimately, this study shows how place-based conditions and transnational relationships shape both the successes and the limits of justice efforts worldwide.

This book critically investigates Nordic criminal justice as a global role model.Not taking this role for granted, the chapters of the book analyze how Nordic approaches to criminal justice were folded into global contexts, and how patterns of promotion were built around perceptions that these approaches also had a particular value for other criminal justice systems. Specific actors, both internal and external to the region itself, have branded Nordic criminal justice as a form of ‘penal exceptionalism’ associated with human rights, universalistic welfare, and social cohesion. The book shows how building and using the brand of Nordic criminal justice allowed stakeholders to champion specific forms of crime control across a variety of criminal justice areas in both domestic and international settings. The book will be of interest to scholars and students of criminal justice, international law and justice, Nordic and Scandinavian studies, and more widely to the social sciences and humanities.

This book critically investigates Nordic criminal justice as a global role model.Not taking this role for granted, the chapters of the book analyze how Nordic approaches to criminal justice were folded into global contexts, and how patterns of promotion were built around perceptions that these approaches also had a particular value for other criminal justice systems. Specific actors, both internal and external to the region itself, have branded Nordic criminal justice as a form of ‘penal exceptionalism’ associated with human rights, universalistic welfare, and social cohesion. The book shows how building and using the brand of Nordic criminal justice allowed stakeholders to champion specific forms of crime control across a variety of criminal justice areas in both domestic and international settings. The book will be of interest to scholars and students of criminal justice, international law and justice, Nordic and Scandinavian studies, and more widely to the social sciences and humanities.