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General Conclusions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 December 2023

Yuliya Zabyelina
Affiliation:
University of Alabama
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How does the cloak of immunity protecting foreign public officials under international law enable their impunity before foreign courts for the crimes they committed for private gain? This was the question with which the book commenced. In answering it, an interdisciplinary attempt was made to come to grips with the structural injustices created by international rules of immunity in preventing well-resourced and internationally protected political elites from accountability for trafficking in persons, corruption and money laundering, and drug trafficking. The ways in which these crimes are perpetrated by political elites constitute an advanced form of criminality in which the perpetrators abuse their authority and personal privileges as public officials and, in so doing, disguise misconduct in the official mandate and even under the pretense of law-abiding behavior. These are the ultimate economic crimes that occur at the nexus of power, privilege, and impunity.

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Between Immunity and Impunity
External Accountability of Political Elites for Transnational Crime
, pp. 248 - 258
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

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  • General Conclusions
  • Yuliya Zabyelina, University of Alabama
  • Book: Between Immunity and Impunity
  • Online publication: 14 December 2023
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009086301.008
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  • General Conclusions
  • Yuliya Zabyelina, University of Alabama
  • Book: Between Immunity and Impunity
  • Online publication: 14 December 2023
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009086301.008
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  • General Conclusions
  • Yuliya Zabyelina, University of Alabama
  • Book: Between Immunity and Impunity
  • Online publication: 14 December 2023
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009086301.008
Available formats
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