The International Criminal Tribunals
Database Website
I am gathering here the various data sets and codebooks used to analyze the decisions made by the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia and the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda. I and my co-authors have used these data sets in various articles in the Journal of Peace Research, the International Criminal Law Review, Judicature, the Leiden Journal of International Law, Social Science Quarterly and various book chapters. These data sets are works in progress and are generally updated fairly soon after the tribunals hand down new rulings. If you have any questions or find any errors, please email me at meernik@unt.edu.
For more information on ICTY & ICTR research try my vita or Dr. Kimi King's vita. Also, try The ICTY web site or The ICTR web site
Note - this codebook contains the codes for all four data sets listed here and some additional codings for ICTR data that have not yet been posted.
These data are based on the individual accused as the unit of analysis. Each case is an individual who has been charged with one or more crimes by the ICTY. Some have had their cases heard by the Trial Chambers; others are in progress; some accused are still at large. These are the data we use in analyzing sentence length.
These data are mostly the same as in the above data set, but are organized according to the counts charged against each individual.
These data are organized by the individual, as in data set #1, but are also coded for the votes of each judge on the Trial Chamber. There is additional information on judge attributes in this data set.
These data are organized by the count charged, as in data set #2, but are also coded for the votes of each judge on the Trial Chamber. There is additional information on judge attributes in this data set.
Thanks to Matt Kohler and Amber Aubone for their invaluable and excellent assistance on this project.