Investing in Authoritarian Rule - Punishment and Patronage in Rwanda's Gacaca Courts for Genocide Crimes (Hardcover)

This book shows how Rwanda's transitional courts that tried genocide crimes - the gacaca - produced social complicity and cemented authoritarian rule. It is unique for its in-depth investigation of the courts' legal operations: confessions, denunciation, and lay judging, and shows how targeted incentives such as grants of clemency, opportunities for private gain, and career advancement drew the masses into the orbit of the ethnic minority-dominated regime. Using previously untapped data, it illustrates how a decade of mass trials constructed a tacit patronage-driven relationship in which the interests of the citizenry became tied to the authoritarian elite that had discretionary power to grant or withdraw those benefits at will. The operation of law in individual behavior and authoritarian control presented in this volume will be of use to students and scholars in the social sciences, and practitioners interested in criminal law and transitional justice.

General

Imprint:	Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Cambridge Studies in Law and Society
Release date:	December 2015
Authors:	Anuradha Chakravarty
Dimensions:	235 x 158 x 26mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	390
ISBN-13:	978-1-107-08408-7
Categories:	Books > Law > Jurisprudence & general issues > Law & society Books > Law > International law > International criminal law Books > Law > International law > Public international law > International human rights law
LSN:	1-107-08408-3
Barcode:	9781107084087

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