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Amnesty, Human Rights and Political Transitions: Bridging the Peace and Justice Divide

Awarded the 2009 British Society of Criminology Book Prize and the Hart Socio Legal Book Prize in 2009.

This book provides ground-breaking empirical analysis of amnesty laws conducted over six years. It draws on the extensive Amnesty Law Database created by the author that contains information organised into 140 fields relating to 506 amnesty processes in 130 countries introduced since the Second World War. Its findings cast new light on the purposes, scope and impacts of amnesties, and call into question some commonly made assumptions on the legal status of amnesties. The monograph was awarded book prizes by the SLSA and British Society and Criminology and provided for further research funded by the AHRC and the Nuffield Foundation.