Kriminologische Grundlagen einer internationalen Strafgerichtsbarkeit

In this study, Frank Neubacher provides an interdisciplinary link between international law and criminal sciences and explains the process of setting and implementing standards in international criminal law. His methods are based on the labeling approach according to which delinquent behavior cannot be analyzed without referring to social interaction and social definitions that label a behavior as 'criminal' or refrain from doing so, as is often the case on the governmental level. The author comes to the conclusion that effective protection of human rights requires to broaden the concept of criminality in order to include the actions of the powerful and that there is no alternative to a functioning international criminal jurisdiction.