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An introduction to international criminal law and procedure /

"This market-leading textbook gives an authoritative account of international criminal law, and focuses on what the student needs to know - the crimes that are dealt with by international courts and tribunals as well as the procedures that police the investigation and prosecution of those crime...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Cryer, Robert, Friman, Hakan, Robinson, Darryl, Wilmshurst, Elizabeth
Format: Printed Book
Published: Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010.
Edition:2nd ed.
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Online Access:http://books.google.co.in/books?id=q_agr0x5SOsC&pg=PA107&source=gbs_toc_r&cad=4#v=onepage&q&f=false
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : what is international criminal law?
  • The objectives of international criminal law
  • Jurisdiction
  • National prosecutions of international crimes
  • State cooperation with respect to national proceedings
  • The history of international criminal prosecutions : Nuremberg and Tokyo
  • The ad hoc international criminal tribunals
  • The International Criminal Court
  • Other courts with international elements
  • Genocide
  • Crimes against humanity
  • War crimes
  • Aggression
  • Transnational crimes, terrorism and torture
  • General principles of liability
  • Defences/grounds for excluding criminal responsibility
  • Procedures of international criminal investigations and prosecutions
  • Victims in the international criminal process
  • Sentencing and penalties
  • State cooperation with the international courts and tribunals
  • Immunities
  • Alternatives and complements to criminal prosecution
  • The future of international criminal law.