Perpetrators and Accessories in International Criminal Law - Individual Modes of Responsibility for Collective Crimes (Paperback, New as Paperback)

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.

General

Imprint:	Hart Publishing
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	August 2016
Authors:	Neha Jain
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	250
Edition:	New as Paperback
ISBN-13:	978-1-5099-0739-7
Categories:	Books > Law > International law > International criminal law Promotions
LSN:	1-5099-0739-4
Barcode:	9781509907397

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