The Young and the Elderly at Risk Individual outcomes and contemporary policy challenges in European societies

This volume considers the important and timely question of criminal justice as a method of addressing state violence committed by non-democratic regimes. The book's main objectives concern a fresh, contemporary, and critical analysis of transitional criminal justice as a concept and its related measures, beginning with the initiatives that have been put in place with the fall of the Communist regimes in Europe in 1989.The project argues for rethinking and revisiting filters that scholars use to interpret main issues of transitional criminal justice, such as: the relationship between judicial accountability, democratisation and politics in transitional societies; the role of successor trials in rewriting history; the interaction between domestic and international actors and specific initiatives in shaping transitional justice; and the paradox of time in enhancing accountability for human rights violations. In order to accomplish this, the volume considers cases of domestic accountability in the post-1989 era, from different geographical areas, such as Europe, Asia and Africa, in relation to key events from various periods of time. In this way the approach, which investigates space and time-lines in key examples, also takes into account a longitudinal study of transitional criminal justice itself.

Ioana Salagean holds a PhD in economics from the University of Nancy 2 in France and worked as Assistant Professor for M.Sc. IMPALLA. She currently works for Luxembourg Income Study (LIS) and the National Statistical Institute of Luxembourg (Statec) analyzing empirically poverty and living conditions in a national as well as a comparative perspective.Catalina Lomos obtained a PhD degree in Education from University of Groningen in the Netherlands, and she worked between 2011 and 2015 as an assistant professor in the International MSc in Social Policy Analysis (IMPALLA) and as a post-doctoral researcher at the Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER, formerly CEPS/INSTEAD), G.D. Luxembourg. Since 2015 she continues her work as a researcher at LISER, her empirical focus being on student achievement within the framework of school effectiveness research, and on cross-cultural comparisons implying measurement invariance. In addition, since 2012, Catalina has been closely collaborating with the Ministry of Education, Children and Youth in Luxembourg, in different national projects.Anne Hartung is research associate at the IRSEI Institute for Research on Socio-Economic Inequalities, University of Luxembourg investigating stratification and inequalities and previously worked as Assistant Professor for the M.Sc. IMPALLA at the University of Leuven, Belgium and LISER, Luxembourg.