@book{9c8e060e90f54ab4b51e087fc2b82dd1,
title = "Criminalising Peacekeepers: Modernising National Approaches to Sexual Exploitation and Abuse",
abstract = "This book examines Australia{\textquoteright}s and the United States{\textquoteright} ability to prosecute their peacekeepers for sexual exploitation and abuse. The United Nations has too long been plagued by sexual exploitation and abuse in some of the world{\textquoteright}s most vulnerable communities. Discussion within United Nations{\textquoteright} reporting and academic scholarship focuses on policy; however, a significant concern outlined here is that peacekeepers are committing sexual offences with impunity, despite exclusive criminal jurisdiction over peacekeepers being granted to their sending states. In this original study O{\textquoteright}Brien provides an in-depth, feminist analysis of US and Australian sexual offending law and jurisdiction over their military and military-civilian peacekeepers. Based on timely critical analysis, this book demonstrates the limitations states face in ensuring accountability for sexual exploitation and abuse by peacekeepers – a factor which directly contributes to ongoing commission of and impunity for such offences. Calling for a rights-based, transnational law response to these crimes, this engaging and thought-provoking work will appeal to international practitioners, governments, UN policy-makers, and scholars of international, military and criminal law.",
keywords = "peacekeeping, criminal law, human rights, AUSTRALIA, USA, transnational crime",
author = "Melanie O'Brien",
year = "2017",
doi = "10.1007/978-3-319-57729-6",
language = "English",
isbn = "9783319577289",
series = "Transnational Crime, Crime Control and Security",
publisher = "Palgrave Macmillan",
address = "United Kingdom",
}