Settling Accounts: Violence, Justice, and Accountability in Postsocialist EuropeAs new states in the former East bloc begin to reckon with their criminal pasts in the years following a revolutionary change of regimes, a basic pattern emerges: In those states where some form of retributive justice has been publicly enacted, there has generally been much less of a recourse to collective retributive violence. In Settling Accounts, John Borneman explores the attempts by these aspiring democratic states to invoke the principles of the "rule of law" as a means of achieving retributive justice, that is, convicting wrongdoers and restoring dignity to victims of moral injuries. Democratic regimes, Borneman maintains, require a strict form of accountability that holds leaders responsible for acts of criminality. This accountability is embodied in the principles of the rule of law, and retribution is at the moral center of these principles. |
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Contents
Chapter 2 | 26 |
Chapter 3 | 40 |
Chapter 4 | 59 |
Chapter 5 | 80 |
Chapter 6 | 99 |
Chapter 7 | 111 |
Chapter 8 | 139 |
Notes | 167 |
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Settling Accounts: Violence, Justice, and Accountability in Postsocialist Europe John Borneman No preview available - 1997 |