Perpetrators and Accessories in International Criminal Law,

Name: Perpetrators and Accessories in International Criminal Law,
Brand: Bloomsbury 3PL
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By Neha Jain

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International criminal law lacks a coherent account of individual responsibility. This failure is due to the inability of international tribunals to capture the distinctive nature of individual responsibility for crimes that are collective by their very nature. Specifically, they have misunderstood the nature of the collective action or framework that makes these crimes possible, and for which liability may be attributed to intellectual authors, policy makers and leaders. In this book, the author draws on insights from comparative law and methodology to propose doctrines of perpetration and secondary responsibility that reflect the role and function of high-level participants in mass atrocity, while simultaneously situating them within the political and social climate which renders these crimes possible. This new doctrine is developed through a novel approach which combines and restructures divergent theoretical perspectives on attribution of responsibility in English and German domestic criminal law, as major representatives of the common law and civil law systems. At the same time, it analyses existing theories of responsibility in international criminal law and assesses whether there is any justification for their retention by international criminal tribunals.

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Edition:: 1
Number of Pages:: 258
Release Date:: 2014-05-15
Publication Date:: 2014-05-15
Publisher:: Bloomsbury 3PL
Languages:: Original: English
ISBN10:: 1849464553
ISBN13:: 9781849464550
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:: [email protected]
Weight:: 555 g
Height:: 161 cm
Width:: 240 cm
Thickness:: 19 cm

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