Criminal law prohibits and punishes the behaviors judged to be antisocial. Because each country’s laws are a mirror image of its values, there are often large differences among the national laws of different countries. Both with regard to the nature of the crimes themselves and the penalties considered suitable. The term ‘international criminal law’ refers variously to at least 3 different areas such as cooperation between diverse national legal systems through extradition and other types of mutual legal support, prohibition and punishment of certain behaviors’ by a number of countries acting cooperatively or by the international community as a whole and the operation of autonomous international legal systems, pertaining courts and other mechanisms of enforcement, that exist alongside with national criminal law .
After the end of World War II, the international community embarked on an innovative approach to justice. Following the Nazi Holocaust the allied nations faced an incredible moral and legal challenge that who would hold
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The Rome statute builds on two major assumptions. The first is that, international crimes must not go unpunished and the second is that the crimes should preferably be prosecuted at the national level. The two assumptions reflect the respective purposes of the Rome statute and at the same time these purposes can also be seen as parts of superior purposes, including the preservation of international peace and security and the safeguard of state sovereignty. Understanding the purposes might clarify the role that the ICC should play and thus indicate how the authority to interfere should be