Focusing on the guilty plea statements in sex crimes cases at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, this article investigates the ways that defendants re-present themselves, their agencies, and their offenses in response to the legal framework within which they talk. While their acts are at the core of international criminal justice (ICJ), defendants are more often spectators than participants when their guilt is negotiated and judged. They have for the most part also been absent in research on ICJ. As defendants’ voices are rarely heard during proceedings, their guilty plea statements produce rare access to war criminal’s staging of self and individual agency. At international criminal tribunals, defendants have wide audiences beyond the courtroom, and when they do speak, their stories potentially influence not only the court proceedings but also wider cultural and societal narratives about wartime agency and sexual violence. After identifying a guilty plea script, this article draws attention to a consistent and intriguing silencing of sexual crimes in the past and to how the defendants’ imageries of present and future selves align with the ICJ effect narratives about the individually disciplining and rehabilitative character of criminal justice and its general deterrent effects.

本文着眼于前南斯拉夫问题国际刑事法庭在性犯罪案件中的有罪认罪陈述，调查了被告根据其谈话所依据的法律框架陈述自己，其代理机构和罪行的方式。虽然他们的行为是国际刑事司法（ICJ）的核心，但在通过谈判和判决有罪时，与被告相比，被告往往是旁观者。在国际法院的研究中，大多数人也都缺席。由于在诉讼程序中很少听到被告的声音，因此他们的认罪陈述使战争罪犯对自我和个人代理进行分阶段的机会很少。在国际刑事法庭上，被告在法庭外有广泛的听众，当他们讲话时，他们的故事不仅会影响法院的诉讼程序，而且还会影响有关战时代理和性暴力的更广泛的文化和社会叙述。在确定认罪认罪手稿后，本文提请人们注意过去对性犯罪的一贯和有趣的沉默，以及被告人现在和将来的自我形象如何与国际刑院关于叙事者个人纪律和恢复性格的叙述相吻合。正义及其一般的威慑作用。