Dealing with the Most Responsible for International Crimes: An Evaluation of the International Criminal Court (ICC) Warrant of Arrest for Vladimir Putin
Journal: IntechOpen eBooks
Year: 2025

The aim of international criminal justice as encapsulated in the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC) is to ensure accountability for international crimes and to close impunity gaps. To this end, the preamble of the Rome Statute declares that the most serious crimes of concern to the international community as a whole must not go unpunished and that it is the duty of states to exercise their criminal jurisdictions over those who are most responsible for these crimes. Dealing wi