This book adopts a critical criminological approach to analyse the production,
representation, and role of crime in the emerging international
order. It analyses the role of power and its infl uence on the dynamics of
criminalization at an international level, facilitating an examination of the
geopolitics of international criminal justice. Such an approach to crime is
well-developed in domestic criminology; however, this critical approach
is yet to be used to explore the relationship between power, crime, and
justice in an international setting. This book brings together contrasting
opinions on how courts, prosecutors, judges, NGOs, and other bodies act
to refl exively produce the social reality of international justice. In doing
this, it bridges the gaps between the fi elds of sociology, criminology, international
relations, political science, and international law to explore the
problems and prospects of international criminal justice and to illustrate
the role of crime and criminalization in a complex, evolving, and contested
international society.