{"id":863,"date":"2012-01-31T15:54:47","date_gmt":"2012-01-31T15:54:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/&#038;p=863"},"modified":"2015-10-13T19:46:51","modified_gmt":"2015-10-13T19:46:51","slug":"the-world-effects-of-prosecuting-atrocities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/2012\/01\/31\/the-world-effects-of-prosecuting-atrocities\/","title":{"rendered":"The World Effects of Prosecuting Atrocities"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='citation'>\n    <span class='authors'>Kathryn Sikkink, <\/span><span class='link'><a href=\"http:\/\/books.wwnorton.com\/books\/detail.aspx?ID=22351\"><em>The Justice Cascade: How Human Rights Prosecutions Are Changing World Politics<\/em>,<\/a><\/span><span class='year'> 2011<\/span><\/div>\n<p>In a way, we can simply let <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tnr.com\/book\/review\/the-justice-cascade-kathryn-sikkink\"><em>The Nation&#8217;s<\/em> review<\/a> do the work on why you should read this book. David Scheffer writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I have long awaited the day when empirical research would help make the case for why the pursuit of international justice over the last two decades has been a worthy instrument not only of punishment, but also of deterrence. Now that day has arrived with Kathryn Sikkink\u2019s important book. It fills a yawning gap in the literature of atrocity crimes.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>But should reinforcement be necessary, let us add that <em>The Justice Cascade<\/em> is great scholarship gaining the wide&#8212;and glowing&#8212;reviews it deserves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kathryn Sikkink, The Justice Cascade: How Human Rights Prosecutions Are Changing World Politics, 2011 In a way, we can simply let The Nation&#8217;s review do the work on why you should read this book. David Scheffer writes: I have long awaited the day when empirical research would help make the case for why the pursuit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[124,85],"tags":[37337,1075,1046,321,1124],"class_list":["post-863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime","category-politics","tag-crime","tag-genocide","tag-international","tag-law","tag-political-science"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=863"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/863\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8360,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/863\/revisions\/8360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}