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State Crimes of Previous Regimes: Knowledge, Accountability, and the Policing of the Past

Cohen, Stanley·1995·Law & Social Inquiry

DOI 10.1111/j.1747-4469.1995.tb00681.x

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The policy of lustration is set in the context of responses to abuses of power by previous regimes. Using examples from three recent forms of social reconstruction (in Latin America, the former communist states, and South Africa), the author reviews the “justice in transition” debate. How do societies going through democratization confront the human rights violations committed by the previous regime? Five aspects of this debate are reviewed: (1) truth: establishing and confronting the knowledge of what happened in the past; (2) justice: making offenders accountable for their past violations through three possible methods: punishment through the criminal law, compensation and restitution, and mass disqualification such as lustration; (3) impunity: giving amnesty to previous offenders; (4) expiation; and (5) reconciliation and reconstruction. A concluding discussion raises the implications of the subject for the study of time and social control.

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Authors: Cohen, S.
Affiliations: Hebrew University of Jerusalem (IL)
Corresponding author: Cohen, Stanley
ORCID: Cohen, Stanley
Venue: Law & Social Inquiry
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Published: 1995
Volume: 20
Issue: 01
Pages: 7-50
ISSN: 0897-6546 (ISSN-L)
1747-4469
DOI: 10.1111/j.1747-4469.1995.tb00681.x
OpenAlex: W2167175932
Cited by: 229
References: 0
Citations by year: 2025: 17 · 2024: 18 · 2023: 1 · 2022: 24 · 2021: 16 · 2020: 4 · 2019: 5 · 2018: 5 · 2017: 6 · 2016: 2 · 2015: 7 · 2014: 3 · 2013: 7 · 2012: 8
FWCI: 11.38
Type: journal article
Language: en
Open access: closed
Licence: doi.wiley.com/10.1002/tdm_license_1.1 (tdm, 7548 d)
Locations: Law & Social Inquiry (publishedVersion)
Topics: Social Sciences › Political Science and International Relations › War, Law, and Justice
Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › History › Memory, violence, and history
Social Sciences › Law › Criminal Justice and Penology
Keywords: lustration, transitional justice, state crimes, human rights violations, democratization, truth commissions, accountability, amnesty, expiation, reconciliation, social reconstruction, former communist states, Latin America, South Africa, social control, time and memory

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