This book adopts a critical criminological approach to analyse the production, representation, and role of crime in the emerging international order. It analyses the role of power and its infl uence on the dynamics of criminalization at an international level, facilitating an examination of the geopolitics of international criminal justice. Such an approach to crime is well-developed in domestic criminology; however, this critical approach is yet to be used to explore the relationship between power, crime, and justice in an international setting. This book brings together contrasting opinions on how courts, prosecutors, judges, NGOs, and other bodies act to refl exively produce the social reality of international justice. In doing this, it bridges the gaps between the fi elds of sociology, criminology, international relations, political science, and international law to explore the problems and prospects of international criminal justice and to illustrate the role of crime and criminalization in a complex, evolving, and contested international society.