What is supranational criminology?
Supranational criminology entails a criminological approach to international crimes. These crimes are committed in a very specific political, institutional and ideological context. We would define all research aiming to study international crimes or the context thereof as supranational criminology. This would include the following research aims: define and map international crimes; investigate and analyze the causes; develop preventive strategies; understand how to react to international crimes; investigate issues of international criminal justice and put forward recommendations on preventive strategies. In order to find answers to these questions societies and political systems that commit international crimes need to be studied, just like organizations involved in committing the crimes, situations in which such crimes are committed and dynamics leading to the perpetration of the crimes. Moreover the people who are involved in the crimes need to be studied: the perpetrators, the victi
