Genocide in international law : the crimes of crimes / / William A. Schabas

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910822186203321
• Autore: Schabas William <1950->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cambridge, U.K. ; ; New York, : Cambridge University Press, 2000
• ISBN: 0-511-04630-8; 0-511-15032-6; 0-511-00992-5
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (642 p.)
• Disciplina: 341.7/78
• Soggetti: Genocide
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 569-607) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: ""General Assembly Resolution 96(I) of 11 December 1946""""Genocide prosecutions after the Nuremberg Trial of the Major War Criminals""; ""2 Drafting of the Convention and subsequent normative developments""; ""The Secretariat draft""; ""Second session of the General Assembly""; ""The Ad Hoc Committee draft""; ""Debates in the Ad Hoc Committee""; ""The third session of the General Assembly""; ""Preliminary matters""; ""Article-by-article study""; ""Subsequent developments""; ""The Draft Code of Crimes Against the Peace and Security of Mankind""; ""The International Criminal Court""; ""The Ad Hoc Tribunals""""3 Group protected by the Convention""; ""'Groups'""; ""Group listed in the Convention""; ""National groups""; ""Racial groups""; ""Ethnical groups""; ""Religious groups""; ""Other Groups""; ""Stable and permanent groups""; ""Political groups""; ""Economic and social groups""; ""Linguistic groups""; ""Gender""; ""Any group""; ""4 The physical element or actus reus of genocide""; ""Genocidal acts defined in the Convention""; ""Killing""; ""Causing serious bodily or metal harm""; ""Deliberately inflicting conditions of life calculated to destroy the groups""; ""Forcilbly transferring children""""Acts of genocide not punishable under the Convention""; ""Cultural genocide""; ""'Ethnic cleansing'""; ""Ecocide""; ""Apartheid""; ""Use of nuclear weapons""; ""5 The mental element or mens rea of genocide""; ""Knowledge""; ""Intent""; ""Drafting ; history""; ""Specific intent or dolus specialis""; ""Proof of intent""; ""Premeditation""; ""'Negligent' genocide""; ""Components of the specific intent to commit genocide""; ""'to destroy'""; ""'in whole or in part'""; ""Groups""; ""Mens rea of the punishable acts""; ""Killing""; ""Causing serious bodily or mental harm""""Deliberately inflicting conditions of life calculated to destroy the group""; ""Imposing measures intended to prevent births ""; ""Forcibly transferring children""; ""Motive""; ""6 'Other acts' of genocide""; ""Conspiracy""; ""Drafting history""; ""The Nuremberg legacy""; ""Direct and public incitement to commit genocide""; ""Drafting history""; ""Incitement in other instruments""; ""Judicial interpretation""; ""Meaning of 'direct' and 'public'""; ""Attempt""; ""Complicity""; ""Drafting history""; ""Complicity in other instruments""; ""Forms of complicity""
• Sommario/riassunto: The provisions of the 1948 Genocide Convention are now being interpreted in important judgments by the International Court of Justice, the ad hoc Tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda, and increasingly in domestic courts. In this definitive work William A. Schabas gives detailed attention to the concept of protected groups, the quantitative dimension of genocide, problems of criminal prosecution, and issues of international judicial cooperations such as extradition. He explores the duty to prevent genocide, and the consequences this may have on the emerging law of humanitarian interve