This book examines how international law prohibits state and individual complicity. Complicity is a derivative form of responsibility that links an accomplice to the wrongdoing of a principal actor. Whenever a legal system prohibits complicity, it must address certain questions …
Analysing the nature of complicity in international criminal law, this book provides an account of the growing attention being paid to the issue. Exploring the responsibilities of individuals, states, and non-state actors in their obligations, the changing status of complicity i…
"Analyzes how activists, legal strategies, and judicial receptivity to human rights claims are constructing new accountability outcomes for human rights violations in Chile and El Salvador."--Provided by publisher.
This book of essays, including Anglo-American and European perspectives, considers strict liability in criminal law : that is, the problem of criminal offences that allow a defendant to be convicted without proof of fault.
This book of essays, including Anglo-American and European perspectives, considers strict liability in criminal law: that is, the problem of criminal offences that allow a defendant to be convicted without proof of fault.
"Appraising Strict Liability is a collection of original contributions offering the first full-length consideration of the problem of strict liability in the criminal law. The chapters, including European and Anglo-American perspectives, provide a sustained and wide-ranging exam…
Unter dem Schlagwort der Impunität wird die Ungerechtigkeit beklagt, die darin liegt, wenn das Recht - entgegen hehren Beteuerungen - Gerechtigkeit nicht durchsetzt. Wo Verbrechen ungestraft bleiben, so die aus der Negativfassung generalpräventiven Denkens hervorgehende Sorge, w…
Gideon Yaffe presents a theory of criminal responsibility according to which child criminals deserve leniency not because of their psychological, behavioural, or neural immaturity but because they are denied the vote. He argues that full shares of criminal punishment are deserve…
The legal context -- Forensic mental health concepts-- Empirical foundations and limits -- Preparation for the evaluation -- Data collection -- Interpretation -- Report writing and testimony.
