International Criminal Courts and the Realization of Democratic Criminal Justice

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In parallel with development of international criminal courts in recent years, they have been reviewed and criticized too. Part of these criticisms and reviews is formulated under the title of “democratic realization of criminal justice”. Based on these criticisms, to enhance effectiveness of international criminal courts and their ability to achieve justice more, on one hand the method of establishing international criminal courts must become democratic, and on the other hand the quality of the courts' behavior and interaction with victim populations must change in a way that leads to participation of them in investigation process.  By studying these criticisms, this article concludes that although practically there hasn’t been considerable support for democratic establishment of the International criminal court, the need of victims’ participation in investigation process has been realized gradually and it is obvious in regulations of international criminal court. This process, to some extent, has helped the democratization of these institutions

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Criminal Law Research
Volume 7, Issue 2 - Serial Number 14
Papers
January 2017
Pages 79-104

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