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Evidence About Harm : Dual Status Victim Participant Testimony at the International Criminal Court and the Straitjacketing of Narratives About Suffering (2022)

D’hondt, S., Pérez-León-Acevedo, J.-P., Ferraz de Almeida, F., & Barrett, E. (2022). Evidence About Harm : Dual Status Victim Participant Testimony at the International Criminal Court and the Straitjacketing of Narratives About Suffering. Criminal Law Forum, 33(3), 191-232. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10609-022-09442-8

JYU-tekijät tai -toimittajat

D'hondt, Sigurd
Perez Leon Acevedo, Juan
Ferraz de Almeida, Fabio
Barrett, Elena

Julkaisun tiedot

Julkaisun kaikki tekijät tai toimittajat: D’hondt, Sigurd; Pérez-León-Acevedo, Juan-Pablo; Ferraz de Almeida, Fabio; Barrett, Elena

Lehti tai sarja: Criminal Law Forum

ISSN: 1046-8374

eISSN: 1572-9850

Julkaisuvuosi: 2022

Ilmestymispäivä: 11.06.2022

Volyymi: 33

Lehden numero: 3

Artikkelin sivunumerot: 191-232

Kustantaja: Springer Science and Business Media LLC

Julkaisumaa: Alankomaat

Julkaisun kieli: englanti

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10609-022-09442-8

Julkaisun avoin saatavuus: Avoimesti saatavilla

Julkaisukanavan avoin saatavuus: Osittain avoin julkaisukanava

Julkaisu on rinnakkaistallennettu (JYX): https://jyx.jyu.fi/handle/123456789/82618

Lisätietoja: An earlier version of this paper was presented at the 15th Biennial Conference of the International Association of Forensic Linguists at Aston University, UK, in September 2021.

Tiivistelmä

Although victims at the International Criminal Court (ICC) are not parties, they can apply to become “victim participants” and may be authorized by an ICC Chamber to directly and orally express their views and concerns in court. Most ICC Trial Chambers, however, have preferred allowing legal representatives of these victim participants to call victims as witnesses to give testimonial evidence about the harm they suffered. Our article focuses on the practical-epistemological challenges that come with forcing accounts of harm into this testimony-format. We draw upon ethnomethodology and conversation analysis to elucidate the discursive techniques by which legal actors in the Ongwen trial manage these challenges. These include eliciting accounts that “exhibit” suffering, posing questions that transform the “inner self” into an object of inquiry, and approaching witnesses as “informal experts”. Furthermore, while questioning related to establishing criminal liability typically proceeds in a granular fashion, testimony-taking about harm is accompanied by a tolerance for extended answers and an orientation to narrativity.

YSO-asiasanat: kansainvälinen oikeus; kansainvälinen rikosoikeus; uhrit; kärsimys; todistajat; todistelu; narratiivisuus; keskustelunanalyysi

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OKM-raportointi: Kyllä

Raportointivuosi: 2022

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