Despite being found guilty of egregious acts, crimes against humanity and war crimes, 54 of the 90 perpetrators sentenced by the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (icty) were granted unconditional early release (uer). This article argues that uer did a disservice to two principal expressive purposes of punishment - moral condemnation of the crimes and the overall norm projected by the icty, the ‘universal repugnance of group-based killing’. Fundamentally, punishment of perpetrators signifies the inherent worth of victims. Interviews with key stakeholders in Bosnia and Herzegovina revealed that the interviewees largely concurred with authors who posit that punitive justice conveys valuable messages to audiences. This article complements expressivist theories by demonstrating the extent to which expressivism was negated as perpetrators were granted uer. Finally, it proposes how early release in future tribunals and courts might be tailored to counter the negation of international criminal justice’s expressive value.

尽管被认定犯有令人震惊的行为，危害人类罪和战争罪，被前南斯拉夫问题国际刑事法庭（判刑90名肇事者54前南刑庭）被授予无条件提前释放（UER）。本文认为，UER做了伤害惩罚的两个主要表现的目的-犯罪的道德谴责，并通过投影的整体规范前南刑庭，即“基于群体的杀戮的普遍厌恶”。从根本上讲，对肇事者的惩罚意味着受害者的内在价值。对波斯尼亚和黑塞哥维那主要利益相关者的采访显示，受访者在很大程度上同意了作者的观点，他们认为惩罚性司法能够向听众传达有价值的信息。这篇文章补充了展示到expressivism是否定为犯罪人被授予程度expressivist理论UER。最后，它提出了如何调整未来法庭和法院的提前释放以应对否定国际刑事司法表达能力的问题。