Human rights advocates often point to the double standards of criminal accountability applied to police at the domestic level and the United States at a global level. That is, those who are most in favor of criminal punishment when it comes to certain groups or states are least likely to face any form of accountability. In response, advocates often call for criminal prosecution of U.S. officials or military actors at the international level, and of police within the United States. This roundtable seeks to explore the implications of a politics based on prosecuting the perpetrators or policing the police. Might it be possible to deploy the critique of double standards without reifying penal structures or using the framework of "criminal justice" to address a range of social, political, and economic problems? Or does the critique prevent the emergence of other emancipatory imaginaries and practices?

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