Atrocity Crimes, Children and International Criminal Courts: Killing Childhood

This book shows how international criminal courts have paid only limited and inconsistent attention to atrocity crimes affecting children.

It elucidates the many structural, legal, financial and even attitudinal obstacles, often overlapping, that have contributed to the international courts’ focus on the experience of adults, rendering children almost invisible. It reviews whether and how different international and hybrid criminal jurisdictions have considered international crimes committed...