International Law of Victims

• Main Author: Fernández de Casadevante Romani, Carlos (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2012.
• Subjects: Law.; Criminal law.; Human rights.; International humanitarian law.; International criminal law.; Criminology.; Human Rights.; International Criminal Law.; International Humanitarian Law, Law of Armed Conflict.; Criminal Law.; Criminology & Criminal Justice.

After having ignored victims, only recently both domestic and international law have begun to pay attention to them. As a consequence, different international norms related to victims have progressively been introduced. These are norms generally characterized by a certain concept from the perspectiv...

Table of Contents:

• The Victims and International Law: Some Previous Questions
• The International Categories of Victims
• Special Reference to the Victims of Terrorism
• The Existence of Common Elements in the Different Definitions of Victim
• The Rights Recognized to Victims by International Norms: A Previous Question: The Legal Nature of Victims' Rights
• The Catalogue of Rights Afforded to Victims by International Norms
• Conclusions
• Bibliography
• International Norms
• Table of Cases.