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How Not to Control Crimes Against Humanity |
| Section: MODERN THOUGHT / ESSAYS |
| Author: Morton A. Kaplan |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 1/1/1999 |
| Size: 5,156 Words, 32,720 Characters |
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The reasons why these legalist efforts often cause more problems than solutions are easy to understand. Efforts to control crime within states, even though less than perfect, rest on a solid base. A national or state government holds an effective monopoly of force and a willigness to use it. More often than not there is a legal system with a consistent interpretation of the rules that is based on an overriding cultural consensus. There usually is a reasonable relationship between the crime and the punishment upon conviction. Although police and prosecution are not without adversarial elements, they are still part of a common system, unlike the United Nations, in which the parties ordered to take action are part of the entity issuing the orders. A short synopsis of the history of modern int...
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...oo high a standard leads to cynicism, desuetude, and mockery. Americans should never forget the Volstead Act (Prohibition). A permanent international court for such matters may sound good. But it is a nest of worms. Attempts at punishment should be reserved in a decentralized international system for circumstances in which appropriate political motivations will make them effective and useful.
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