Cultural defences at the International Criminal Court:

Cultural defences, i.e. claims that certain aspects of a defendant's cultural background should be taken into consideration by courts when adjudicating on their guilt or innocence, have been raised before domestic courts in a variety of jurisdictions. This has been a very sensitive and controve...

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1. Verfasser: Higgins, Noelle (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: London ; New York Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group 2018
Schriftenreihe:Routlegdge Focus
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Zusammenfassung:Cultural defences, i.e. claims that certain aspects of a defendant's cultural background should be taken into consideration by courts when adjudicating on their guilt or innocence, have been raised before domestic courts in a variety of jurisdictions. This has been a very sensitive and controversial issue. However, the issue of cultural defences in international tribunals is one which has not yet been fully explored. The main objective of this book is to analyse if the ICC can, and should, accommodate cultural defences as answers to legal charges, or if the Court should accommodate cultural considerations in other ways
Introduction -- Introductory comments -- Research question -- Structure -- The cultural defence; its use and abuse -- Introduction -- What is 'culture'? -- Arguments in favour and against the cultural defence -- Conclusion -- The ICC statute: a culture clash? -- Introduction -- Law as culture -- The making of the rome statute -- Cultural accommodation at the ICC -- Article 21 of the ICC Statute and sources of law: a cultural portal? -- Conclusion -- Defences at the ICC -- Introduction -- Defences in international criminal law -- ICC Statute provisions on defences (Articles 31-33) -- A cultural defence as another ground for excluding criminal liability -- Conclusion -- ICC practice -- Introduction -- Linguistic diversity -- Child soldiers -- The destruction of cultural property -- Conclusion -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index
Beschreibung:hier auch unveränderte Nachdrucke, first print in paperback 2019
Beschreibung:vi, 123 Seiten
ISBN:9781138893610
9780367888978

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