A War Criminal’s Remorse: the Case of Landžo and Plavšić

Simić, Olivera; Holá, Barbora

doi:10.1007/s12142-020-00593-y

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“…War or peace, violent offenders’ stories are met with suspicion: Their stories cannot be trusted because offenders will lie to appear tougher than they are, to come forth as better persons than their offenses suggest, and/or not to incriminate themselves (Presser, 2009; Rauschenbach, 2018). These are reasonable suspicions that may explain why analyses of guilty pleas specifically and expressions of remorse generally have received limited attention in ICJ research (see, however, Clark, 2009; Diggelmann, 2016; Gobodo-Madikizela, 2002; Simić & Hola, 2020). The context’s impact on storytelling is rarely as explicit as it is for stories told in a criminal trial.…”

Section: A Narrative Expressivist Approach To Icjmentioning

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Imageries of Self: Guilty Plea Statements in Sexual Violence Cases at the ICTY

Houge

2020

International Criminal Justice Review

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Focusing on the guilty plea statements in sex crimes cases at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, this article investigates the ways that defendants re-present themselves, their agencies, and their offenses in response to the legal framework within which they talk. While their acts are at the core of international criminal justice (ICJ), defendants are more often spectators than participants when their guilt is negotiated and judged. They have for the most part also been absent in research on ICJ. As defendants’ voices are rarely heard during proceedings, their guilty plea statements produce rare access to war criminal’s staging of self and individual agency. At international criminal tribunals, defendants have wide audiences beyond the courtroom, and when they do speak, their stories potentially influence not only the court proceedings but also wider cultural and societal narratives about wartime agency and sexual violence. After identifying a guilty plea script, this article draws attention to a consistent and intriguing silencing of sexual crimes in the past and to how the defendants’ imageries of present and future selves align with the ICJ effect narratives about the individually disciplining and rehabilitative character of criminal justice and its general deterrent effects.

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Section: A Narrative Expressivist Approach To Icjmentioning

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Imageries of Self: Guilty Plea Statements in Sexual Violence Cases at the ICTY

Houge

2020

International Criminal Justice Review

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“Adding fuel to the fire”: Unconditional early release of perpetrators convicted by the ICTY, views from Bosnia and Herzegovina

Yarnell¹

2023

Journal of Human Rights

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Difendere la violenza. Le retoriche dei perpetratori

Panico

Violi

2021

Actes Sémiotiques

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Questo articolo cerca di riflettere sulle organizzazioni narrative e discorsive della violenza, proponendo una tipologia semiotica che prende in considerazione due fasi specifiche che corrispondono grosso modo alle categorie di violenza privata vs. pubblica, o collettiva, che hanno diverse Destinazione e forme di Agency.Nel primo caso, esamineremo l’oggetto verso cui è diretta l’azione violenta; nel secondo, le giustificazioni retoriche che il soggetto violento adotta rispetto alla propria azione. Tra le diverse forme di violenza privata, considereremo quelle che sono dirette contro un oggetto individuale. È il caso, per esempio, della violenza domestica, dove un marito che uccide la moglie attiva un sistema di passioni specificamente diretto verso l’oggetto; della violenza verso un oggetto generico, come le azioni su individui considerati come istanze di un certo tipo generale (gruppi minoritari, comunità lgbtqi, ecc.); e della violenza in sé, che non ha un oggetto definito a priori. Nella seconda parte, discuteremo della violenza collettiva, e in particolare delle forme retoriche con cui gli autori giustificano le loro azioni. Analizzeremo anche le diverse strategie enunciative che vengono utilizzate per trasformare le azioni violente in comportamenti giustificabili.

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A War Criminal’s Remorse: the Case of Landžo and Plavšić

Cited by 3 publications

References 38 publications

Imageries of Self: Guilty Plea Statements in Sexual Violence Cases at the ICTY

Imageries of Self: Guilty Plea Statements in Sexual Violence Cases at the ICTY

“Adding fuel to the fire”: Unconditional early release of perpetrators convicted by the ICTY, views from Bosnia and Herzegovina

Difendere la violenza. Le retoriche dei perpetratori

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