Settling Accounts : Violence, Justice, and Accountability in Postsocialist Europe /

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As 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 col...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Borneman, John, 1952-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 1997.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Social policy.
Social justice.
Rule of law.
Retribution.
Reparation (Criminal justice)
Post-communism.
Politics and government
Political crimes and offenses.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
punishing.
Justice sociale > Europe de l'Est.
Punition.
Crimes et delits politiques > Europe de l'Est.
Regle de droit > Europe de l'Est.
Postcommunisme > Europe de l'Est.
Social justice > Europe, Eastern.
Political crimes and offenses > Europe, Eastern.
Reparation (Criminal justice) > Europe, Eastern.
Rule of law > Europe, Eastern.
Post-communism > Europe, Eastern.
Eastern Europe.
Europe de l'Est > Politique et gouvernement > 1989-
Europe de l'Est > Politique sociale.
Europe, Eastern > Politics and government > 1989-
Europe, Eastern > Social policy.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Part One: Framing, Comparing, Historicizing
  • Chapter 1. Framing the Rule of Lawin East-Central Europe
  • Chapter 2. Comparing: Decommunization--Recommunization--Reform?
  • Chapter 3. Historicizing the Rule of Law
  • Part Two: Ethnography Of Criminality
  • Chapter 4. The Invocation of the Rechtsstaat in East Germany: Governmental and Unification Criminality
  • Chapter 5. Accountability on Trial
  • Part Three: Ethnography of Vindication
  • Chapter 6. Democratic Accountability: Results, Evaluations, Ramifications
  • Chapter 7. Justice and Dignity: Victims, Vindication, and Accountability
  • Part Four: Legitimacy
  • Chapter 8. The Rule of Law and the State: Violence, Justice, and Legitimacy
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • Name Index.

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