Double Jeopardy Without Parameters: Re-characterisation in International Criminal Law

Double Jeopardy Without Parameters: Re-characterisation in International Criminal Law
ISBN-10
9050953891
ISBN-13
9789050953894
Category
Criminal jurisdiction
Pages
288
Language
English
Published
2004
Publisher
Intersentia nv
Author
Olaoluwa Olusanya

Description

This book deals with the double jeopardy rule, namely the practice of multiple characterisation of the same facts, under different headings, in international criminal law. Such practice is problematic, due to the fact that know how it works within the context of international criminal law. How does one distinguish a situation in which an act may appear simultaneously to breach several criminal provisions, whilst in reality it violates only one, from another where the act does in fact breach more than one criminal provision? International crimes such as genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes cannot be confined a single category of well-defined offences such as murder, voluntary or involuntary manslaughter, theft, etc. Instead these crimes embrace broad clusters of identical offences and share certain general legal features. Multiple characterisation of the same facts under different headings in international criminal law is therefore a complex legal problem. Every case of mult

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